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Machine learning

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Machine learning is a set of techniques that improves a system’s performance by using training data to identify patterns and usually produce models automatically.

Review status: 2027-02-23

Technical explanation

It uses statistical and mathematical models with learning algorithms to detect patterns in historical data and support predictions about new data in a workflow.

Conceptual boundaries

Machine learning is a subset of AI strategies, not all of AI; AI also includes knowledge-based approaches.

Provider-neutral example

A model trained on past labelled support tickets can suggest a category for a new ticket before an employee confirms it.

Limitations

Learning from data does not by itself guarantee that a prediction is accurate.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    Building AI systems and models, machine-learning approaches, p. 7
    Supported claim
    Machine learning improves performance and usually generates models through exposure to training data rather than precise human instructions.
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    Review due
    Scope limitation
    Usually does not mean every machine-learning workflow is fully automated or free of human choices.
  2. 2.1NIST SP 1500-18r2, NIST Research Data Framework Version 2.0
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    NIST SP 1500-18r2, NIST Research Data Framework Version 2.0
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    Process/Analyze: Modeling, ML definition, p. 24
    Supported claim
    NIST describes machine learning as using statistics, mathematical models, and learning algorithms to detect patterns in historical data and make predictions about new data.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This describes a common methodological framing, not a guarantee that a prediction is accurate.
  3. 3.1OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    OECD, Explanatory Memorandum on the Updated OECD Definition of an AI System
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    Topics typically encompassed by AI, p. 5
    Supported claim
    Machine learning is a subset of AI strategies, and AI includes knowledge-based approaches as well as machine learning.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    The claim distinguishes broad approach categories and does not assign every AI system to only one approach.