Regression
Predicting a number, rather than choosing a category.
For example
Predicting tomorrow's temperature, or a flat's rent from its size and area.
Related terms
- Overshoot Stepping so far that you go past the best answer.
- Pattern Something that repeats, which helps you guess.
- Prediction The AI’s best guess.
- Reinforcement learning Learning by trial and error, getting rewards for good actions.
- Slope, or gradient Which way, and how steeply, the error changes when a weight changes.
- Spurious pattern An accident in the data that looks like a real rule.