Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence concerned with using algorithms to learn from data and improve automatically through experience without being explicitly programmed. The algorithms build a mathematical model of sample data, known as "training data", in order to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to perform the task. Machine learning algorithms are often categorized as supervised or unsupervised. Supervised learning involves predicting the value of a target variable based on input variables whereas unsupervised learning identifies hidden patterns or grouping in the data.

1. Machine Learning
• Machine learning is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of
algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors.
• Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence.
• Machine learning is concerned with the development of algorithms allowing the machine to
learn via inductive inference based on observing data that represents incomplete
information about statistical phenomenon.

2. Machine Learning
• Machine learning is concerned with the development of algorithms allowing the machine to
generalize it to rules.
• Machine learning is concerned with the development of algorithms allowing the machine to
make predictions on missing attributes or future data.

3. Machine learning,KDD and data
mining
• These three terms are commonly confused.
• Machine learning also employs data mining methods as ` unsupervised learning ' or as a
preprocessing step to improve learner accuracy on the other hand.
• Much of the confusion between these two research communities -LRB- which do often
have separate conferences and separate journals , ECML PKDD being a major exception
-RRB- comes from the basic assumptions they work with : in machine learning , the
performance is usually evaluated with respect to the ability to reproduce known knowledge
, while in KDD the key task is the discovery of previously unknown knowledge .

4. Machine learning,KDD and data
mining
• An uninformed method will easily be outperformed by supervised methods.
• Supervised methods cannot be used due to the unavailability of training data in a typical
KDD task.

5. Theory
• The computational analysis of machine learning algorithms and their performance is a
branch of theoretical computer science known as computational learning theory.
• A computation is considered feasible if it can be done in polynomial time in computational
learning theory.
• Positive results show that a certain class of functions can be learned in polynomial time.

6. Theory
• Negative results show that certain classes cannot be learned in polynomial time.
• There are many similarities between machine learning theory and statistics.
• They use different terms.

7. Approaches
• Decision tree learning uses a decision tree as a predictive model which maps
observations about an item to conclusions about the item's target value.
• An artificial neural network learning algorithm is a learning algorithm that is inspired by the
structure.
• Functional aspects of biological neural networks. Com putations are structured in terms of
an interconnected group of artificial neurons.

8. Approaches
• Algorithm is usually called ` neural network '.
• Functional aspects of biological neural networks. Com putations processes information
using a connectionist approach to computation.
• Modern neural networks are non-linear statistical data modeling tools.

9. Approaches
• They are usually used to model complex relationships between inputs and outputs.
• Genetic programming is an evolutionary algorithm-based methodology inspired by
biological evolution to find computer programs that perform a user-defined task.
• It is a specialization of genetic algorithms where each individual is a computer program.

10. Approaches
• It is a machine learning technique used to optimize a population of computer programs
according to a fitness landscape determined by a program's ability to perform a given
computational task.
• Nductive logic programming is an approach to rule learning using logic programming as a
uniform representation for examples, background knowledge, and hypotheses.
• An ILP system will derive a hypothesized logic program which entails all the positive and
none of the negative examples given an encoding of the known background knowledge
and a set of examples represented as a logical database of facts.

11. Approaches
• Support vector machines are a set of related supervised learning methods used for
classification and regression.
• Each marked as belonging to one of two categories algorithm builds a model that predicts
whether a new example falls into one category or the other given a set of training
examples.
• A new example falls into one category or the other.

12. Approaches
• Two categories are an SVM training.
• Cluster analysis or clustering is the assignment of a set of observations into subsets so
that observations in the same cluster are similar in some sense.
• A Bayesian network, belief network or directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic
graphical model that represents a set of random variables and their conditional
independencies via a directed acyclic graph.

13. Approaches
• A Bayesian network could represent the probabilistic relationships between diseases and
symptoms for example.
• The network can be used to compute the probabilities of the presence of various diseases
given symptoms.
• Efficient algorithms exist that perform inference.

14. Approaches
• Efficient algorithms exist that learning.
• Reinforcement learning is concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an
environment so as to maximize some notion of long-term reward.
• Reinforcement learning algorithms attempt to find a policy that maps states of the world to
the actions the agent ought to take in those states.
• Reinforcement learning differs from the supervised learning problem in that correct
input/output pairs are never presented, nor sub-optimal actions explicitly corrected.