Tag Archives: Unsupervised Learning

LM101-079: Ch1: How to View Learning as Risk Minimization

Android presenting his empirical risk family tree.

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Episode Summary: This particular podcast covers the material in Chapter 1 of my new (unpublished) book “Statistical Machine Learning: A unified framework”. In this episode we discuss Chapter 1 of my new book, which shows how supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning algorithms can be viewed as special cases of a general empirical risk minimization framework. This is useful… Read More »

LM101-060: How to Monitor Machine Learning Algorithms using Anomaly Detection Machine Learning Algorithms

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LM101-060: How to Monitor Machine Learning Algorithms using Anomaly Detection Machine Learning Algorithms Episode Summary: This 60th episode of Learning Machines 101 discusses how one can use novelty detection or anomaly detection machine learning algorithms to monitor the performance of other machine learning algorithms deployed in real world environments. The episode is based upon a review of a… Read More »

LM101-049: How to Experiment with Lunar Lander Software

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LM101-049: How to Experiment with Lunar Lander Software Episode Summary: In this episode we continue the discussion of learning when the actions of the learning machine can alter the characteristics of the learning machine’s statistical environment. We describe how to download free lunar lander software so you can experiment with an autopilot for a lunar lander module that… Read More »

LM101-025: How to Build a Lunar Lander Autopilot Learning Machine (adaptive control)

An illustration of a robot landing a lunar lander on the moon.

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LM101-025: How to Build a Lunar Lander Autopilot Learning Machine (adaptive control) Episode Summary: In this episode we consider the problem of learning when the actions of the learning machine can alter the characteristics of the learning machine’s statistical environment. We illustrate the solution to this problem by designing an autopilot for a lunar lander module that learns… Read More »