In the last few years, the industry of information technology has developed on a wide scale. The new innovative technologies are introduced by the engineers that bring an immense growth in the industry. One of the major aspects of intelligence is the ability to learn, and transforming that power to machines. In fact, the machine learning has become one of the major platforms for developing Artificial Intelligence and create various new opportunities for making machines more intelligent. Although Machine Learning sounds interesting and beneficial, but it has some limitations.

In this age of modern technology, there is one resource that we have in abundance: a large amount of structured and unstructured data. In the second half of the twentieth century, machine learning evolved as a subfield of artificial intelligence that involved the development of self-learning algorithms to gain knowledge from that data in order to make predictions. Instead of requiring humans to manually derive rules and build models from analysing large amounts of data, machine learning offers a more efficient alternative for capturing the knowledge in data to gradually improve the performance of predictive models, and make data-driven decisions. Not only is machine learning becoming increasingly important in computer science research but it also plays an ever greater role in our everyday life. Thanks to machine learning, we enjoy robust e-mail spam filters, convenient text and voice recognition software, reliable Web search engines, challenging chess players, and, hopefully soon, safe and efficient self-driving cars. The main goal in supervised learning is to learn a model from labeled training data that allows us to make predictions about unseen or future data.

We revisit the elegant observation of T. Cover [Cov65] which, perhaps, is not as well-known to the broader community as it should be. The first goal of the tutorial is to explain--through the prism of this elementary result--how to solve certain sequence prediction problems by modeling sets of solutions rather than the unknown data-generating mechanism. We extend Cover's observation in several directions and focus on computational aspects of the proposed algorithms. The applicability of the methods is illustrated on several examples, including node classification in a network. The second aim of this tutorial is to demonstrate the following phenomenon: it is possible to predict as well as a combinatorial "benchmark" for which we have a certain multiplicative approximation algorithm, even if the exact computation of the benchmark given all the data is NPhard. The proposed prediction methods, therefore, circumvent some of the computational difficulties associated with finding the best model given the data. These difficulties arise rather quickly when one attempts to develop a probabilistic model for graph-based or other problems with a combinatorial structure.

Have you noticed that the best fitness functions that most creatures adopt for survival is to work in collectives? School of fishes, Hive of bees, the nest of ants, horde of wildebeests or flock of birds all have something in common. What is even more perplexing about nature is the ecological inter-dependence of different species, collectively surviving to see a better day. This fitness function is a sum of averages of sorts which enables a different form of collective strength. Its called Unity in Diversity.

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Unsupervised learning, by contrast, is much harder. It is best thought of as a continuum between (a) the entire system being one gigantic, autonomous, self-learning machine and (b) solving certain problems within a much larger system that also involves humans and supervised learning techniques. For many enterprise solutions we are very close to (b). For personal assistants like Siri, we are a little closer to (a), but even in such applications true autonomous AI is still quite far away. Imagine the amount of human intervention that will need to happen on the back-end, or how many special cases must be handled by editors or trainers in teaching the system.

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"Alone we can do so little and together we can do much" - a phrase from Helen Keller during 50's is a reflection of achievements and successful stories in real life scenarios from decades. Same thing applies with most of the cases from innovation with big impacts and with advanced technologies world. The machine Learning domain is also in the same race to make predictions and classification in a more accurate way using so called ensemble method and it is proved that ensemble modeling offers one of the most convincing way to build highly accurate predictive models. Ensemble methods are learning models that achieve performance by combining the opinions of multiple learners. Typically, an ensemble model is a supervised learning technique for combining multiple weak learners or models to produce a strong learner with the concept of Bagging and Boosting for data sampling.

Use of computational methods to predict gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data is a challenging task. Many studies have been conducted using unsupervised methods to fulfill the task; however, such methods usually yield low prediction accuracies due to the lack of training data. In this article, we propose semi-supervised methods for GRN prediction by utilizing two machine learning algorithms, namely support vector machines (SVM) and random forests (RF). The semi-supervised methods make use of unlabeled data for training. We investigate inductive and transductive learning approaches, both of which adopt an iterative procedure to obtain reliable negative training data from the unlabeled data. We then apply our semi-supervised methods to gene expression data of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and evaluate the performance of our methods using the expression data. Our analysis indicated that the transductive learning approach outperformed the inductive learning approach for both organisms. However, there was no conclusive difference identified in the performance of SVM and RF. Experimental results also showed that the proposed semi-supervised methods performed better than existing supervised methods for both organisms.