I am sure a number of you have heard about machine learning. A dozen of you might even know what it is. And a couple of you might have worked with machine learning algorithms too.  You see where this is going? Not a lot of people are familiar with the technology that will be absolutely essential 5 years from now. Siri is machine learning. Amazon’s Alexa is machine learning. Ad and shopping item recommender systems are machine learning.  Let’s try to understand machine learning with a simple analogy of a 2 year old boy. Just for fun, let’s call him Kylo Ren

让我们假设凯洛·伦看到了一头大象。他的大脑会告诉他什么?(记住，即使他是维德的继任者，他也只有最低限度的思考能力)。他的大脑会告诉他，他看到了一个巨大的移动生物，颜色是灰色的。接着他看到一只猫，他的大脑告诉他那是一只会动的金色小动物。最后，他看到了一把光剑，他的大脑告诉他，这是一个无生命的物体，他可以玩!

此时他的大脑知道，军刀不同于大象和猫，因为军刀是用来玩的，不会自己移动。即使凯洛不知道移动是什么意思，他的大脑也能想出这么多。这个简单的现象叫做聚类。

机器学习只不过是这个过程的数学版本。 很多研究统计学的人意识到，他们可以用大脑工作的方式来计算一些方程。 大脑可以聚类相似的物体，大脑可以从错误中学习，大脑可以学习识别事物。

所有这些都可以用统计数据来表示，基于计算机模拟的这一过程被称为机器学习。为什么我们需要基于计算机的模拟?因为计算机比人脑更快地完成繁重的数学运算。 我很想进入机器学习的数学/统计部分，但在没有明确一些概念之前，你不会想直接进入。

Let’s get back to Kylo Ren. Let’s say Kylo picks up the saber and starts playing with it. He accidentally hits a stormtrooper and the stormtrooper gets injured. He doesn’t understand what’s going on and continues playing. Next he hits a cat and the cat gets injured. This time Kylo is sure he has done something bad, and tries to be somewhat careful. But given his bad saber skills, he hits the elephant and is absolutely sure that he is in trouble.  He becomes extremely careful thereafter, and only hits his dad on purpose as we saw in Force Awakens!!

从错误中学习的整个过程可以用方程式来模拟，在方程式中，做错事的感觉用错误或代价来表示。这种识别不该用军刀做什么的过程叫做分类。 聚类和分类是机器学习的绝对基础。让我们看看它们之间的区别。

Kylo differentiated between animals and light saber because his brain decided that light sabers cant move by themselves and are therefore, different. The decision was based solely upon the objects present (data) and no external help or advice was provided.  In contrast to this, Kylo differentiated the importance of being careful with light saber by first observing what hitting an object can do. The decision wasn’t completely based on the saber, but on what it could do to different objects . In short, there was some help here.

Because of this difference in learning, Clustering is called an unsupervised learning method and Classification is called a supervised learning method.  They are very different in the machine learning world, and are often dictated by the kind of data present. Obtaining labelled data (or things that help us learn , like stormtrooper,elephant and cat in Kylo’s case) is often not easy and becomes very complicated when the data to be differentiated is large. On the other hand, learning without labels can have it’s own disadvantages , like not knowing what are the label titles.  If Kylo was to learn being careful with the saber without any examples or help, he wouldn’t know what it would do. He would just know that it is not suppose to be done. It’s kind of a lame analogy but you get the point!

We are just getting started with Machine Learning. Classification itself can be classification of continuous numbers or classification of labels. For instance, if Kylo had to classify what each stormtrooper’s height is, there would be a lot of answers because the heights can be 5.0, 5.01, 5.011, etc. But a simple classification like types of light sabers (red,blue.green) would have very limited answers. Infact they can be represented with simple numbers. Red can be 0 , Blue can be 1 and Green can be 2.

如果你懂基础数学，你就知道0、1、2和5.1、5.01、5.011是不同的，分别被称为离散数和连续数。离散数的分类称为逻辑回归，连续数的分类称为回归。 逻辑回归也被称为分类分类，所以当你在其他地方读到这个术语时不要感到困惑

这是关于机器学习的一个非常基础的介绍。我将在下一篇文章中详细讨论统计方面的问题。如果我需要更正，请告诉我:)

第二部分张贴在这里。

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通常，在分类中，您有一组预定义的类，并希望知道新对象属于哪个类。

聚类尝试将一组对象分组，并发现对象之间是否存在某种关系。

在机器学习的背景下，分类是监督学习，聚类是无监督学习。

也可以看看维基百科上的分类和聚类。

摘自《驯象人在行动》一书，我认为它很好地解释了两者的区别:

分类算法与聚类算法(如k-means算法)相关，但仍有很大不同。 分类算法是监督学习的一种形式，与无监督学习相反，无监督学习发生在聚类算法中。 监督学习算法是一种给出包含目标变量期望值的例子。无监督算法不会得到想要的答案，而是必须自己找到一些合理的答案。

分类和聚类之间的主要区别是: 分类是借助类标签对数据进行分类的过程。另一方面，聚类类似于分类，但没有预定义的类标签。 分类与监督学习相适应。与此相反，聚类也被称为无监督学习。 分类方法提供训练样本，聚类方法不提供训练数据。

希望这对你有所帮助!

分类:在离散输出中预测结果=>映射输入变量到离散类别

常用用例:

电子邮件分类:垃圾邮件或非垃圾邮件 制裁贷款给客户:是的，如果他有能力支付制裁贷款金额的EMI。不行就不行 癌症肿瘤细胞鉴定:是关键还是非关键? 推文的情感分析:推文是积极的、消极的还是中性的 新闻分类:将新闻分类为预定义的类-政治，体育，健康等

聚类:是对一组对象进行分组，使同一组(称为聚类)中的对象彼此之间(在某种意义上)比其他组(聚类)中的对象更相似。

常用用例:

营销:发现客户细分市场的营销目的 生物学:植物和动物的不同种类的分类 图书馆:根据主题和信息对不同的书籍进行聚类 保险:了解客户、他们的政策并识别欺诈行为 城市规划:将房屋分组，并根据其地理位置和其他因素研究其价值。 地震研究:确定危险区 推荐系统:

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