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Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms - Second Edition
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Machine learning models work with data. They create associations, find out relationships, discover patterns, generate new samples, and more, working with well-defined datasets, which are homogenous collections of data points (for example, observations, images, or measures) related to a specific scenario (for example, the temperature of a room sampled every 5 minutes, or the weights of a population of individuals)
Unfortunately, sometimes the assumptions or conditions imposed on machine learning models are not clear, and a lengthy training process can result in a complete validation failure. We can think of a model as a gray box (some transparency is guaranteed by the simplicity of many common algorithms), where a vectoral input X extracted from a dataset is transformed into a vectoral output Y:

Schema of a generic model parameterized with the vector
and its relationship with the real world
In the preceding diagram, the model has been...