Unsupervised learning

AIGP glossary · Last reviewed: 2026-07-08 · By Victor Humenhuk (AIGP certified)

Unsupervised learning - Learning from unlabelled data to find hidden patterns; cheaper but less accurate and subjective.

In the AIGP body of knowledge, Unsupervised learning comes up under Module 1: Foundations of AI · BoK IV.A; Module 8: AI Governance Vocabulary.

Where Unsupervised learning is covered in the AIGP study notes

• The four ways machines learn
• Machine learning families

Related terms

• Supervised learning
• Semi-supervised learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Classification models
• Regression models
• Clustering
• Association rule learning
• SVM (Support Vector Machine)
• SVR (Support Vector Regression)
• Machine learning

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