AI Word a Day

Classical Machine Learning

Cluster

Origin. Old English clyster: bunch or group.

Literally: a bunch

Clustering finds groups of examples that are close or similar under some representation. The old word is physical: grapes form a cluster because they bunch together. Data points do the same mathematically when a method groups them.

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