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What types of learning should I know about? Question

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In machine learning there seem to be various types of learning. I commonly hear about

  • supervised learning,
  • unsupervised learning, and
  • reinforcement learning.

However, it is not always clear to me how they differ or what paradigm is best used for a particular task. I can also imagine that these paradigms do not cover all possible tasks, as this list and the series topics on that page seem to suggest. Therefore, my question: What are the differences between these paradigms and what other paradigms should I know about?

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Comprehensive?

There's a handful of basic types, but then people like to invent new types in their papers and marketing copy. How comprehensive do you expect answers to be? Or maybe it's better to have one type per answer only, in "question-wiki" style, rather than trying to enumerate them all in one single answer?