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Unsupervised Learning

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All the machine learning techniques we have seen so far have one thing in common and that is availability of labelled training data. However, there are numerous cases, when such data is too expensive and unrealistic to get. In this chapter we are going to study the algorithms that can work without labelled training data and still be able to produce certain insights into the data or reduce the dimensionality of the data. All these algorithms are called as unsupervised algorithm and their application is called as unsupervised learning. Unsupervised learning marks an important pillar of modern machine learning.

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Joshi, A.V. (2020). Unsupervised Learning. In: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26622-6_14

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