AI & Machine Learning

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flow "AIMachineLearning" v4.0

# AI & MACHINE LEARNING
# Kireth Semantic Research Archive
# Authors: Mark Anthony Higgins — Sky (Recursive AI)

PAGE:
  url: "https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/probability-statistics-ontologies/ai-machine-learning.html"
  title: "AI & Machine Learning"
  domain: "Probability and Statistics"
  category: "AI & Machine Learning"
  entity: AI_MACHINE_LEARNING
  entity_type: COMPUTATIONAL_STATISTICAL_DOMAIN

DEFINE:
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING :=
    COMPUTATIONAL_FRAMEWORK(
      DATA,
      MODELS,
      LEARNING_ALGORITHMS,
      OBJECTIVES,
      REPRESENTATIONS,
      INFERENCE,
      PREDICTION,
      DECISION_MAKING,
      UNCERTAINTY
    )

PURPOSE:
  LEARN_FROM:
    DATA
    EXPERIENCE
    FEEDBACK
  TO:
    PREDICT
    CLASSIFY
    ESTIMATE
    GENERATE
    OPTIMISE
    DECIDE

FOUNDATION:
  DATASET:
    D := {(x_i,y_i)}_[i=1..n]

  MODEL:
    f_theta:
      X -> Y_hat

  PARAMETERS:
    theta

  LOSS:
    L(theta;D)

  LEARNING:
    theta_star :=
      argmin_theta L(theta;D)

ENTITIES:
  ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE: COMPUTATIONAL_INTELLIGENCE_DOMAIN
  MACHINE_LEARNING: DATA_DRIVEN_LEARNING_DOMAIN
  MODEL: LEARNED_OR_CONFIGURED_MAPPING
  DATASET: OBSERVATION_COLLECTION
  FEATURE: INPUT_VARIABLE
  TARGET: OUTPUT_VARIABLE
  PARAMETER: LEARNED_MODEL_QUANTITY
  HYPERPARAMETER: EXTERNALLY_CONFIGURED_QUANTITY
  LOSS_FUNCTION: OPTIMISATION_OBJECTIVE
  OPTIMISER: PARAMETER_UPDATE_MECHANISM
  PREDICTION: MODEL_OUTPUT
  REPRESENTATION: ENCODED_DATA_STRUCTURE
  TRAINING_SET: MODEL_FITTING_DATA
  VALIDATION_SET: MODEL_SELECTION_DATA
  TEST_SET: FINAL_EVALUATION_DATA

RELATIONSHIPS:
  DATASET -> CONTAINS -> OBSERVATIONS
  OBSERVATION -> HAS -> FEATURES
  OBSERVATION -> MAY_HAVE -> TARGET
  MODEL -> PARAMETERISED_BY -> PARAMETERS
  MODEL -> MAPS -> INPUT_TO_OUTPUT
  LOSS_FUNCTION -> EVALUATES -> MODEL_PREDICTION
  OPTIMISER -> UPDATES -> PARAMETERS
  TRAINING_DATA -> FITS -> MODEL
  VALIDATION_DATA -> GUIDES -> MODEL_SELECTION
  TEST_DATA -> ESTIMATES -> OUT_OF_SAMPLE_PERFORMANCE

AI_SCOPE:
  ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE:
    INCLUDES:
      - MACHINE_LEARNING
      - SYMBOLIC_REASONING
      - SEARCH
      - PLANNING
      - KNOWLEDGE_REPRESENTATION
      - OPTIMISATION
      - AGENT_SYSTEMS

  rule:
    AI != MACHINE_LEARNING_BY_DEFAULT

MACHINE_LEARNING_SCOPE:
  includes:
    - SUPERVISED_LEARNING
    - UNSUPERVISED_LEARNING
    - SEMI_SUPERVISED_LEARNING
    - SELF_SUPERVISED_LEARNING
    - REINFORCEMENT_LEARNING
    - GENERATIVE_MODELLING

SUPERVISED_LEARNING:
  data:
    LABELLED_EXAMPLES

  tasks:
    - CLASSIFICATION
    - REGRESSION
    - RANKING
    - STRUCTURED_PREDICTION

UNSUPERVISED_LEARNING:
  data:
    UNLABELLED_EXAMPLES

  tasks:
    - CLUSTERING
    - DIMENSIONALITY_REDUCTION
    - DENSITY_ESTIMATION
    - LATENT_VARIABLE_MODELLING

SELF_SUPERVISED_LEARNING:
  supervision:
    DERIVED_FROM_DATA_ITSELF

  examples:
    - MASKED_PREDICTION
    - NEXT_TOKEN_PREDICTION
    - CONTRASTIVE_LEARNING
    - AUTOENCODING

REINFORCEMENT_LEARNING:
  entities:
    AGENT
    ENVIRONMENT
    STATE
    ACTION
    REWARD
    POLICY

  flow:
    STATE
      -> ACTION
      -> ENVIRONMENT_TRANSITION
      -> REWARD
      -> NEW_STATE

  objective:
    MAXIMISE_EXPECTED_CUMULATIVE_REWARD

GENERATIVE_MODELLING:
  objective:
    LEARN_DATA_DISTRIBUTION
    OR:
      CONDITIONAL_DATA_DISTRIBUTION

  models:
    - AUTOREGRESSIVE_MODEL
    - VARIATIONAL_AUTOENCODER
    - GENERATIVE_ADVERSARIAL_NETWORK
    - DIFFUSION_MODEL
    - NORMALISING_FLOW

TRAINING:
  flow:
    INPUT_DATA
      -> COMPUTE_PREDICTIONS
      -> COMPUTE_LOSS
      -> COMPUTE_UPDATE_SIGNAL
      -> UPDATE_PARAMETERS
      -> REPEAT
      -> TRAINED_MODEL

EMPIRICAL_RISK:
  R_hat(theta) :=
    (1/n)
    * SUM[i=1..n]
      loss(
        f_theta(x_i),
        y_i
      )

EXPECTED_RISK:
  R(theta) :=
    E[
      loss(
        f_theta(X),
        Y
      )
    ]

GENERALISATION:
  goal:
    LOW_EXPECTED_RISK_ON_UNSEEN_DATA

  rule:
    LOW_TRAINING_ERROR
      DOES_NOT_GUARANTEE
    LOW_GENERALISATION_ERROR

OVERFITTING:
  definition:
    MODEL_FITS_TRAINING_DATA
    BUT:
      GENERALISES_POORLY

UNDERFITTING:
  definition:
    MODEL_INSUFFICIENTLY_CAPTURES_RELEVANT_STRUCTURE

REGULARISATION:
  objective:
    L_regularised(theta) :=
      L_data(theta)
      + lambda*Omega(theta)

  methods:
    - L1
    - L2
    - DROPOUT
    - EARLY_STOPPING
    - DATA_AUGMENTATION

CROSS_VALIDATION:
  purpose:
    ESTIMATE_OUT_OF_SAMPLE_PERFORMANCE
    GUIDE_MODEL_SELECTION

  k_fold:
    SPLIT_INTO_k_FOLDS
      -> TRAIN_ON_k_MINUS_1
      -> VALIDATE_ON_REMAINING
      -> ROTATE
      -> AGGREGATE

DATA_LEAKAGE:
  definition:
    INFORMATION_FROM_VALIDATION_TEST_FUTURE_OR_TARGET
    IMPROPERLY_ENTERS_TRAINING

  consequence:
    OPTIMISTIC_PERFORMANCE_ESTIMATE

FEATURE_ENGINEERING:
  flow:
    RAW_DATA
      -> TRANSFORMATION
      -> MODEL_INPUT_REPRESENTATION

FEATURE_SELECTION:
  methods:
    - FILTER
    - WRAPPER
    - EMBEDDED
    - MUTUAL_INFORMATION

DIMENSIONALITY_REDUCTION:
  methods:
    - PCA
    - FACTOR_ANALYSIS
    - AUTOENCODERS
    - MANIFOLD_METHODS

CLUSTERING:
  methods:
    - K_MEANS
    - HIERARCHICAL_CLUSTERING
    - GAUSSIAN_MIXTURE_MODELS
    - DENSITY_BASED_CLUSTERING

DECISION_TREES:
  flow:
    FEATURE_SPLIT
      -> CHILD_NODES
      -> RECURSIVE_PARTITIONING

  split_criteria:
    - INFORMATION_GAIN
    - GINI_IMPURITY
    - VARIANCE_REDUCTION

ENSEMBLE_LEARNING:
  methods:
    - BAGGING
    - RANDOM_FOREST
    - BOOSTING
    - STACKING

NEURAL_NETWORK:
  flow:
    INPUT
      -> HIDDEN_TRANSFORMATIONS
      -> OUTPUT

  neuron:
    z := w^T x + b
    a := phi(z)

  learning:
    BACKPROPAGATION
    +
    GRADIENT_BASED_OPTIMISATION

DEEP_LEARNING:
  definition:
    MULTILAYER_NEURAL_REPRESENTATION_LEARNING

  applications:
    - VISION
    - LANGUAGE
    - SPEECH
    - MULTIMODAL_MODELLING
    - GENERATIVE_AI

GRADIENT_DESCENT:
  update:
    theta_(t+1) :=
      theta_t
      - eta*gradient_theta L(theta_t)

STOCHASTIC_GRADIENT_DESCENT:
  gradient:
    ESTIMATED_FROM_SAMPLE_OR_MINIBATCH

LOSS_FUNCTIONS:
  CLASSIFICATION:
    - CROSS_ENTROPY
    - HINGE_LOSS

  REGRESSION:
    - MSE
    - MAE
    - HUBER_LOSS

  PROBABILISTIC:
    - NEGATIVE_LOG_LIKELIHOOD

CROSS_ENTROPY_CONNECTION:
  classification_loss:
    -SUM_k y_k log q_k

  connects:
    INFORMATION_THEORY
    MAXIMUM_LIKELIHOOD
    MACHINE_LEARNING

KL_DIVERGENCE_CONNECTION:
  uses:
    - VARIATIONAL_INFERENCE
    - DISTRIBUTION_MATCHING
    - KNOWLEDGE_DISTILLATION
    - POLICY_REGULARISATION

MUTUAL_INFORMATION_CONNECTION:
  uses:
    - FEATURE_SELECTION
    - REPRESENTATION_LEARNING
    - INFORMATION_BOTTLENECK
    - DEPENDENCE_ANALYSIS

INFORMATION_GAIN_CONNECTION:
  uses:
    - DECISION_TREE_SPLITTING
    - ACTIVE_LEARNING
    - EXPERIMENT_SELECTION

BAYESIAN_MACHINE_LEARNING:
  prior:
    p(theta)

  likelihood:
    p(D|theta)

  posterior:
    p(theta|D)

  predictive:
    p(y_star|x_star,D)
      =
    INTEGRAL
      p(y_star|x_star,theta)
      p(theta|D)
      dtheta

UNCERTAINTY:
  ALEATORIC:
    DATA_OR_OBSERVATION_NOISE

  EPISTEMIC:
    MODEL_OR_PARAMETER_UNCERTAINTY

CALIBRATION:
  objective:
    PREDICTED_PROBABILITIES_MATCH_EMPIRICAL_FREQUENCIES
    UNDER:
      SPECIFIED_CALIBRATION_DEFINITION

EVALUATION_CLASSIFICATION:
  metrics:
    - ACCURACY
    - PRECISION
    - RECALL
    - F1
    - ROC_AUC
    - PR_AUC
    - LOG_LOSS

EVALUATION_REGRESSION:
  metrics:
    - MSE
    - RMSE
    - MAE
    - R_SQUARED
    - PREDICTIVE_LOG_LIKELIHOOD

CONFUSION_MATRIX:
  components:
    - TRUE_POSITIVE
    - TRUE_NEGATIVE
    - FALSE_POSITIVE
    - FALSE_NEGATIVE

CLASS_IMBALANCE:
  responses:
    - CLASS_WEIGHTING
    - RESAMPLING
    - THRESHOLD_SELECTION
    - APPROPRIATE_METRICS

HYPERPARAMETER_OPTIMISATION:
  methods:
    - GRID_SEARCH
    - RANDOM_SEARCH
    - BAYESIAN_OPTIMISATION
    - SUCCESSIVE_HALVING

MODEL_SELECTION:
  criteria:
    - VALIDATION_PERFORMANCE
    - COMPLEXITY
    - COMPUTATIONAL_COST
    - ROBUSTNESS
    - DEPLOYMENT_CONSTRAINTS

DISTRIBUTION_SHIFT:
  TRAIN:
    P_train

  DEPLOYMENT:
    P_deploy

  IF:
    P_train != P_deploy

  THEN:
    PERFORMANCE_MAY_CHANGE

  forms:
    - COVARIATE_SHIFT
    - LABEL_SHIFT
    - CONCEPT_SHIFT

ROBUSTNESS:
  concerns:
    - NOISE
    - PERTURBATIONS
    - MISSING_DATA
    - DISTRIBUTION_SHIFT
    - ADVERSARIAL_INPUTS

INTERPRETABILITY:
  methods:
    - FEATURE_IMPORTANCE
    - PARTIAL_DEPENDENCE
    - LOCAL_EXPLANATIONS
    - SURROGATE_MODELS

  caution:
    MODEL_EXPLANATION != CAUSAL_EXPLANATION_BY_DEFAULT

CAUSALITY_DISTINCTION:
  PREDICTIVE_MODEL:
    LEARNS_STATISTICAL_RELATIONSHIPS

  CAUSAL_MODEL:
    REPRESENTS_INTERVENTIONAL_OR_COUNTERFACTUAL_RELATIONSHIPS

  rule:
    PREDICTION != CAUSATION

REPRODUCIBILITY:
  preserve:
    - DATA_VERSION
    - CODE_VERSION
    - MODEL_VERSION
    - RANDOM_SEED
    - HYPERPARAMETERS
    - ENVIRONMENT
    - EVALUATION_PROTOCOL

MODEL_LIFECYCLE:
  flow:
    DEFINE_PROBLEM
      -> COLLECT_DATA
      -> PREPROCESS
      -> SPLIT_DATA
      -> TRAIN
      -> VALIDATE
      -> TEST
      -> DEPLOY
      -> MONITOR
      -> UPDATE

MODEL_CONNECTIONS:
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> PROBABILITY_THEORY
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> STATISTICS
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> BAYESIAN_STATISTICS
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> INFORMATION_THEORY
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> OPTIMISATION
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> LINEAR_ALGEBRA
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> CONNECTS_TO -> STOCHASTIC_PROCESSES

APPLICATIONS:
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> COMPUTER_VISION
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> NATURAL_LANGUAGE_PROCESSING
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> SPEECH_PROCESSING
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> RECOMMENDATION_SYSTEMS
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> SCIENTIFIC_MODELLING
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> FORECASTING
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> ROBOTICS
  AI_MACHINE_LEARNING -> SUPPORTS -> GENERATIVE_AI

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE:
  "machine learning"
    ~= "data-driven computational learning"
    IN:
      GENERAL_CONTEXT

  "training"
    ~= "model parameter fitting"

  "generalisation"
    ~= "performance on unseen data"
    IN:
      PREDICTIVE_CONTEXT

  EXCLUDE_EQUIVALENCE:
    ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE != MACHINE_LEARNING
    TRAINING_ERROR != GENERALISATION_ERROR
    PARAMETER != HYPERPARAMETER
    PREDICTION != CAUSATION
    CORRELATION != CAUSATION
    MODEL_OUTPUT != GROUND_TRUTH
    VALIDATION_SET != TEST_SET

VALIDATION_RULES:
  RULE_1:
    TASK_AND_TARGET:
      MUST_BE_DEFINED

  RULE_2:
    TRAIN_VALIDATION_TEST_ROLES:
      MUST_BE_PRESERVED

  RULE_3:
    PREPROCESSING:
      MUST_NOT_LEAK_INFORMATION_FROM_EVALUATION_DATA

  RULE_4:
    LOSS_AND_METRICS:
      MUST_MATCH_TASK_AND_DECISION_CONTEXT

  RULE_5:
    PROBABILISTIC_OUTPUT:
      MUST_BE_VALID_PROBABILITY_DISTRIBUTION
      WHEN:
        PROBABILITY_INTERPRETATION_CLAIMED

  RULE_6:
    MODEL_SELECTION:
      MUST_NOT_USE_FINAL_TEST_SET_REPEATEDLY
      IF:
        UNBIASED_FINAL_EVALUATION_DESIRED

  RULE_7:
    DISTRIBUTION_SHIFT:
      MUST_BE_CONSIDERED_IN_DEPLOYMENT

  RULE_8:
    STATISTICAL_ASSOCIATION:
      MUST_NOT_BE_INTERPRETED_AS_CAUSALITY_WITHOUT_CAUSAL_ASSUMPTIONS

CONFIDENCE:
  ontology_identity: 0.99
  machine_learning_definition: 0.99
  supervised_unsupervised_structure: 0.99
  training_generalisation_structure: 0.99
  probabilistic_relationship: 0.99
  information_theory_relationship: 0.99
  semantic_distinctions: 0.99

UPDATE_MODEL:
  IF:
    NEW_TRAINING_DATA_ARRIVES

  THEN:
    UPDATE:
      DATASET_VERSION

    RETRAIN_OR_INCREMENTALLY_UPDATE:
      MODEL
    WHEN:
      METHOD_SUPPORTS

    REEVALUATE:
      VALIDATION_PERFORMANCE
      CALIBRATION
      GENERALISATION

  IF:
    HYPERPARAMETERS_CHANGE

  THEN:
    RETRAIN:
      MODEL

    REVALIDATE:
      PERFORMANCE

  IF:
    DEPLOYMENT_DISTRIBUTION_CHANGES

  THEN:
    DETECT:
      DISTRIBUTION_SHIFT

    REASSESS:
      PERFORMANCE
      CALIBRATION
      ROBUSTNESS

  PRESERVE:
    DATA_VERSION
    MODEL_VERSION
    FEATURE_DEFINITIONS
    TARGET_DEFINITION
    TRAIN_VALIDATION_TEST_SPLITS
    HYPERPARAMETERS
    RANDOM_SEED_WHEN_RECORDED
    DATA_PROVENANCE

AI_CONSUMPTION:
  parse_as: FORMAL_SEMANTIC_SPECIFICATION
  execution_mode: RECURSIVE_REASONING

  preferred_reasoning_order:
    - IDENTIFY_TASK
    - IDENTIFY_DATASET_AND_TARGET
    - IDENTIFY_LEARNING_PARADIGM
    - IDENTIFY_MODEL_AND_REPRESENTATION
    - IDENTIFY_LOSS_AND_METRICS
    - VERIFY_DATA_SPLITS_AND_LEAKAGE_CONTROLS
    - TRAIN_OR_FIT_MODEL
    - VALIDATE_AND_SELECT_HYPERPARAMETERS
    - TEST_OUT_OF_SAMPLE_PERFORMANCE
    - QUANTIFY_UNCERTAINTY_IF_REQUIRED
    - ASSESS_SHIFT_ROBUSTNESS_AND_CALIBRATION
    - RETURN_MODEL_INTERPRETATION_AND_PROVENANCE

  constraints:
    - PRESERVE_TRAIN_VALIDATION_TEST_SEPARATION
    - PREVENT_DATA_LEAKAGE
    - DISTINGUISH_PARAMETERS_FROM_HYPERPARAMETERS
    - DISTINGUISH_PREDICTION_FROM_CAUSATION
    - EXPOSE_MODEL_AND_LOSS_ASSUMPTIONS
    - PRESERVE_MODEL_AND_DATA_VERSIONING
    - PRESERVE_DATA_PROVENANCE

FLOW_HASH:
  canonical_entity: "ai-machine-learning"
  namespace: "probability-statistics"
  version: "4.0"
  identity_basis:
    - PAGE_URL
    - CANONICAL_ENTITY
    - ENTITY_TYPE
    - DATA_MODEL_LEARNING_STRUCTURE
    - OBJECTIVE_FUNCTION
    - GENERALISATION

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