Unsupervised Learning
Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning where the model learns patterns from data without labeled outputs. It is used for clustering, dimensionality reduction, and discovering structure.
In Simple Terms
Think of it as sorting a pile without labels: the model finds natural groupings and structure on its own.
Detailed Explanation
The algorithm receives only inputs (e.g., documents, images) and finds groups, outliers, or compact representations. Applications include customer segmentation, anomaly detection, and pre-training representations for downstream tasks. Unsupervised methods do not optimize for a specific label, so success is often measured by usefulness of clusters or downstream performance. They are key in exploratory analysis and as a first step before supervised or semi-supervised learning.
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