Unsupervised Learning Practice

Optimize and interpret hard clustering and mixture-model assignments.

Recommended resources

MIT 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning — MIT Open Learning Library
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction — online draft dated 2025-04-18 — Kevin P. Murphy and MIT Press

Instructions

Write the objective or posterior normalization before updating assignments.

Ordered items

One k-means assignment and updateUnsupervised Learning · 7 min
Mixture responsibilities and EMUnsupervised Learning · 7 min

Completion

Perform one k-means update and one mixture responsibility calculation.

Agent handoff

Ask for hints-first tutoring and preserve item IDs in attempt records.

Use https://mlprep.iwase.dev/machine-learning/unsupervised-learning/. If window.mlPrepAgent is available, read local attempt history before planning. Help me work through this set without revealing full answers first, and save each real attempt through the bridge.

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