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learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Batch_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Batch learning (not yet started)">Batch learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curriculum_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Curriculum learning (not yet started)">Curriculum learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rule-based_machine_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rule-based machine learning (not yet started)">Rule-based learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neuro-symbolic_AI&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neuro-symbolic AI (not yet started)">Neuro-symbolic AI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neuromorphic_engineering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Neuromorphic engineering (not yet started)">Neuromorphic engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Quantum_machine_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Quantum machine learning (not yet started)">Quantum machine learning</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;">Problems</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statistical_classification&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Statistical classification (not yet started)">Classification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generative_model" title="Generative model">Generative modeling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regression_analysis" title="Regression analysis">Regression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cluster_analysis" title="Cluster analysis">Clustering</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dimensionality_reduction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dimensionality reduction (not yet started)">Dimensionality reduction</a></li> <li><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Structured_prediction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Structured prediction (not yet started)">Structured prediction</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feature_engineering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Feature engineering (not yet started)">Feature engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feature_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Feature learning (not yet started)">Feature learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Learning_to_rank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Learning to rank (not yet started)">Learning to rank</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grammar_induction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grammar induction (not yet started)">Grammar induction</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ontology_learning&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ontology learning (not yet started)">Ontology learning</a></li> <li><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Fuzzy_clustering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fuzzy clustering (not yet started)">Fuzzy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Expectation%E2%80%93maximization_algorithm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Expectation–maximization algorithm (not yet started)">Expectation–maximization (EM)</a></li> <li><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=DBSCAN&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DBSCAN (not yet started)">DBSCAN</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPTICS_algorithm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPTICS algorithm (not yet started)">OPTICS</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mean_shift&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mean shift (not yet started)">Mean shift</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;"><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Structured_prediction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Structured prediction (not yet started)">Structured prediction</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graphical_model&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Graphical model (not yet started)">Graphical models</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayesian_network" title="Bayesian network">Bayes net</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conditional_random_field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conditional random field (not yet started)">Conditional random field</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hidden_Markov_model&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hidden Markov model (not yet started)">Hidden Markov</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div 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forest</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed machine-learning-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Artificial_neural_network" title="Artificial neural network">Artificial neural network</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Autoencoder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Autoencoder (not yet started)">Autoencoder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_learning" title="Deep learning">Deep learning</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Feedforward_neural_network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Feedforward neural network (not yet started)">Feedforward neural network</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recurrent_neural_network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Recurrent neural network (not yet 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This is different from supervised learning, where data comes with labels to guide the learning process. Other types of learning, like weak or semi-supervised learning, use some labeled data, while self-supervised learning is sometimes considered a form of unsupervised learning. </p><p>In unsupervised learning, the data is often collected from sources like the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> with little processing, making it cheaper than supervised learning, where labeled datasets are created manually. </p><p>There are special algorithms for unsupervised learning, such as k-means for grouping similar data, PCA for reducing data complexity, and autoencoders for learning useful representations. With the rise of deep learning, large-scale unsupervised learning is mostly done using neural networks trained with gradient descent and special training techniques. </p><p>Sometimes, models trained with unsupervised learning are used directly, but often they are adjusted for other tasks. For example, a model trained to generate text can later be fine-tuned for tasks like text classification. Similarly, autoencoders can learn useful features that help improve other models, such as those used in image generation.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unsupervised_learning&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Change section: References" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unsupervised_learning&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section's source code: References"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r9724332">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWu2022" class="citation journal cs1">Wu, Wu (2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://na.uni-tuebingen.de/ex/ml_seminar_ss2022/Unsupervised_Learning%20Final.pdf">"Unsupervised Learnin"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Mathematisches Institut Universität Tübingen</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Mathematisches+Institut+Universit%C3%A4t+T%C3%BCbingen&rft.atitle=Unsupervised+Learnin&rft.date=2022&rft.aulast=Wu&rft.aufirst=Wu&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fna.uni-tuebingen.de%2Fex%2Fml_seminar_ss2022%2FUnsupervised_Learning%2520Final.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsimple.wikipedia.org%3AUnsupervised+learning" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r9724332" /><cite id="CITEREFLiuZhangHouMian" class="citation journal cs1">Liu, Xiao; 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