Precision and recall are essential metrics in machine learning, especially when evaluating models for imbalanced datasets. While accuracy is a common evaluation metric, it may not always provide meaningful insights in scenarios where one class significantly outweighs the other. For instance, in spam detection, fraud detection, or medical diagnosis, it is not enough to simply ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a transformative force, revolutionizing industries like healthcare, finance, and transportation. It enables machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as decision-making, pattern recognition, and language understanding. This article explores how AI works, breaking down its core components, processes, and applications into simple, easy-to-understand concepts for beginners. What ...
Recommendation systems are AI-driven tools used to provide personalized suggestions to users based on their preferences, behaviors, and interactions. These systems are a fundamental application of machine learning, where algorithms learn from past data to make relevant recommendations. By analyzing user data, recommender systems can predict what a user might like, making it easier for ...
In machine learning, understanding and managing uncertainty is essential. When building models, we often face questions about how well a model will perform on new data or how accurate the estimates are. Bootstrapping in machine learning is a statistical resampling technique that helps address these uncertainties by generating multiple samples from the original dataset and ...
In machine learning, a model is trained to make predictions or classify data based on patterns in a dataset. However, a single model can sometimes have limitations, such as overfitting, where the model performs well on training data but poorly on new data. Ensemble methods offer a solution by combining multiple models to improve accuracy ...
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful area of artificial intelligence that enables systems to learn and adapt through a process of trial and error, aiming to achieve specific goals. Unlike traditional learning methods, RL emphasizes learning optimal actions based on feedback from the environment. This approach is especially valuable for tasks where defining explicit rules ...
In artificial intelligence, search algorithms are key tools for exploring possible solutions to complex problems. Among these, Uniform Cost Search (UCS) stands out as a fundamental type of uninformed search algorithm. Unlike informed search methods, UCS does not use heuristics; instead, it focuses on finding the least-cost path by expanding nodes based on the cumulative ...
Machine learning models rely on two types of configurations: parameters learned during training and hyperparameters that need to be manually set. Hyperparameters, such as learning rate in neural networks or C value in Support Vector Machines (SVMs), directly impact how well a model performs. Setting them incorrectly can result in underfitting or overfitting, making it ...
Polynomial regression is an essential extension of linear regression used to model non-linear relationships in data. In many real-world scenarios, the relationship between variables isn’t linear, making polynomial regression a suitable alternative for achieving better predictive accuracy. This technique allows machine learning models to capture curved patterns in data by fitting polynomial equations of higher ...
Classification is one of the core tasks in machine learning, enabling models to predict discrete outcomes based on input data. This supervised learning technique assigns data points to predefined categories or classes. Classification algorithms power many of the automated systems we use daily, from email spam filters to fraud detection systems in banking. The importance ...
Anshuman Singh
Mohit Uniyal
Team Applied AI