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The Shape of a Learning Problem

Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning differ by what information arrives and when, and the difference decides which questions the data can answer.

1. Supervised learning

Supervised learning

2. Unsupervised learning

Unsupervised learning

3. Learning with an environment

Learning with an environment

4. What credit assignment is

A reinforcement learning agent plays chess. It receives a reward of +1+1 for a win and −1-1 for a loss, both at the end of the game. Which statement describes credit assignment?

5. Which paradigm the data supports

A dataset of 50,000 photographs arrives with no category information of any kind. Which task can be carried out on this dataset as it stands?

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