An introduction to semi-supervised learning

Semi-supervised learning is a class of supervised learning that takes unlabeled data into consideration. If we have a very large amount of data, we most likely want to apply learning to it. However, training that particular data with supervised learning is a problem, because a supervised learning algorithm always requires a target variable: a class that can be assigned to the dataset.

Suppose that we have millions of instances of a particular type of data. Assigning a class to these instances would be a very big problem. Therefore, we'll take a small set from that particular data and manually tag the data (meaning that we'll manually provide a class for the data). Once we have done this, we'll train ...

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