What is a supervised machine learning?
Training a model from features and their corresponding labels.
supervised machine learning explained in plain English
Training a model from features and their corresponding labels. Supervised machine learning is analogous to learning a subject by studying a set of questions and their corresponding answers. After mastering the mapping between questions and answers, a student can then provide answers to new (never-before-seen) questions on the same topic. Compare with unsupervised machine learning. See Supervised Learning in the Introduction to ML course for more information.
Example
Practitioners refer to supervised machine learning when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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