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Supervised Learning
Fundamentals
Training with labeled examples (input → target).
Supervised learning uses input–target pairs to learn a mapping function.
- Tasks: Classification (category), regression (numeric value), ranking.
- Key factors: Label quality, class balance, appropriate metrics.
- Risks: Data leakage, overfitting, distribution shifts in deployment.
- Practice: Cross-validation, regularization, early stopping, data augmentation.