Machine learning

How it is used

Used as a noun and, very often, before another noun: a machine learning model, engineer or pipeline. In speech and writing it is shortened to ML, and 'AI/ML' is common in job ads.

Example sentences

1. She moved from backend development to machine learning two years ago.

2. We use machine learning to flag suspicious transactions before they are approved.

Common collocations

• machine learning model
• machine learning engineer
• machine learning pipeline
• apply machine learning

Related terms

• artificial intelligenceThe field of computer science that builds systems able to do tasks that normally need human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognizing images or making decisions.
• deep learningThe part of machine learning that uses neural networks with many layers. It powers modern speech recognition, image recognition and large language models.
• supervised learningA type of machine learning in which the model learns from examples that come with correct answers (labels), so that it can predict the answer for new examples.
• modelThe result of training: a program with learned parameters that takes an input, such as an image or a sentence, and produces an output, such as a label, a number or a text.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• machine learning · Software Engineering

More terms: Machine Learning Basics

• classification
• unsupervised learning
• regression
• reinforcement learning
• clustering
• state-of-the-art