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Supervised vs Unsupervised vs Reinforcement Learning: What's the Difference?

Supervised learning trains on labeled examples to predict known outputs, unsupervised learning finds hidden structure in unlabeled data, and reinforcement learning trains an agent through trial and error using rewards and penalties from an environment.

Supervised Learning

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Unsupervised Learning

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Reinforcement Learning

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	Supervised Learning	Unsupervised Learning	Reinforcement Learning
Training data	Labeled input-output pairs	Unlabeled data	No fixed dataset, feedback from environment
Goal	Predict labels or values	Discover patterns, groups, structure	Learn a policy that maximizes reward
Typical tasks	Classification, regression	Clustering, dimensionality reduction, anomaly detection	Game playing, robotics, RLHF for LLMs
Example algorithms	Linear/logistic regression, random forest, SVM	K-means, PCA, DBSCAN	Q-learning, policy gradients, PPO
Example use	Predict house prices, detect spam	Customer segmentation	Optimize warehouse robot routes

Remember it

Supervised has an answer key, unsupervised has none, reinforcement has a scoreboard.

Exam tip

Look for the word 'labeled': labeled means supervised. Grouping customers with no predefined categories is unsupervised clustering. RLHF is how many chat models are aligned.

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