Self-Taught Learning

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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
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In machine learning, one of the most reliable ways to get better performance is
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Assuming that you have a sufficiently powerful learning algorithm, one of the most reliable  
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to give your algorithms more data.  This has led to the that aphorism that in
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ways to get better performance is to give your algorithm more data.  This has led to the  
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that aphorism that in
machine learning, "sometimes it's not who has the best algorithm that wins; it's  
machine learning, "sometimes it's not who has the best algorithm that wins; it's  
who has the most data."  
who has the most data."  
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these models often given good results even if we have only
these models often given good results even if we have only
labeled data (in which case we usually perform the feature learning step using
labeled data (in which case we usually perform the feature learning step using
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the labeled data, but ignoring the labels).  
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the labeled data, but ignoring the labels).
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== Learning features ==
== Learning features ==

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