# Supervised learning

Record: term-supervised-learning · Type: term · Edition: 0.20.0 · Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15

[Read in the atlas](https://theaiatlas.org/ideas/supervised-learning/) · [Complete evidence](https://theaiatlas.org/evidence.html#idea-supervised-learning) · [JSON](https://theaiatlas.org/records/term-supervised-learning.json) · [Pinned complete dataset](https://theaiatlas.org/editions/e74392d479c0e7da8636a7d6a0454d03510df86ffca9931eb86babd952665ca5/data.json)

Dataset pointer: `/glossary/87`. Reviewed: 2026-09-15.

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## Publication dates and source age

Publication dates are unavailable.

Newest dated source: unavailable. Assessed at this edition’s evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-15.

Publication age does not establish validity or a new source-reading date. Unknown dates and month/year precision remain explicit in the JSON record.

## /summary

Training with examples that include a target answer, such as a category or number.

Claim: claim-term-supervised-learning-1a5192ba3d7825ca26b24a72. Annotation: synthesis.

[glossary-model-supervised](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised)

## /definition

Software compares the model’s prediction with the target and uses the difference to adjust it. An illustrative task is sorting messages using examples already labeled as spam or ordinary mail.

Claim: claim-term-supervised-learning-1e4c26398ee834b2e16dc7b8. Annotation: synthesis.

[glossary-model-supervised](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised)

## /placement

Ask how the labels were made and whether they match the task you want to perform.

Claim: claim-term-supervised-learning-25f52a21ad9f2e54a62ed1b2. Annotation: editorial.

[glossary-model-supervised](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised)

## /distinction

Supervised describes the training examples. It does not mean a person checks every answer when the trained model is used.

Claim: claim-term-supervised-learning-09422ce4d5c74cb753a9bb98. Annotation: synthesis.

[glossary-model-supervised](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised)

## Source provenance

### glossary-model-supervised

[Supervised Learning](https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/intro-to-ml/supervised)

Google for Developers · First-hand source (primary) · Published: undated · Updated: 2025-08-25 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read labeled examples, training, evaluation and inference. Used for the training procedure, without treating labels as infallible or adopting the page’s wording about understanding.

No archive check recorded.