{"id":9599,"date":"2025-07-10T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/?post_type=lexicon&#038;p=9599"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:45:25","slug":"supervised-learning","status":"publish","type":"lexicon","link":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/lexicon\/supervised-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervised learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine teaching a small child to recognise animals using flashcards. Each card carries a picture of an animal and you tell the child its name. You show a picture of a dog and say &#8220;dog&#8221;, show a cat and say &#8220;cat&#8221;. Bit by bit the child links the pictures to the right names. <strong>Supervised learning<\/strong> works in exactly the same way. We give the artificial intelligence data containing inputs (the pictures) together with the correct answers (the animal names). From these &#8220;supervised&#8221; examples the model learns the rules so well that when you later show it a completely new picture of an animal, it can name it correctly on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supervised learning<\/strong> is the machine learning paradigm in which an algorithm learns from a dataset containing labelled examples. Each example in the training set consists of an input object (typically a feature vector) and the corresponding desired output, or label. The algorithm&#8217;s aim is to learn a mapping function able to predict the output value as accurately as possible for new, previously unseen inputs. Tasks addressed by supervised learning divide into two main types: <strong>regression<\/strong>, where the target value is continuous (predicting a house price, say), and <strong>classification<\/strong>, where the target value is discrete and represents membership of a category (recognising whether a picture shows a cat or a dog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-9599","lexicon","type-lexicon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexicon\/9599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexicon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lexicon"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kubicek.ai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}