Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning

I recently confronted this when I began reading about maximum causal entropy as part of a project on inverse reinforcement learning. Many of the terms were unfamiliar to me, but as I read closer, I realized that the concepts had close relationships with statistics concepts. This blog post presents a table of connections between terms that are standard in statistics and their related counterparts in machine learning. Understanding a result in machine learning can help to avoid reinventing the wheel in statistics and vice versa. My ability to understand inverse reinforcement learning benefited from my training in statistics because I was able to translate machine learning terminology into statistical terminology.