Unsupervised learning

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Author: Dr. Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, CANADA

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Dr. Geoffrey E. Hinton accepted the invitation on 21 January 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 21 March 2007).

This article will briefly cover: How unsupervised learning differs from other types of learning The multiple goals of unsupervised learning Major types of unsupervised learning: 

 clustering, directed generative models, undirected generative models, dimensionality reduction.
Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
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