Figure 2

Supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. (a) In supervised learning, the model (blue line) is learned based on the positive and negative training examples, and the genomic region without a known class label (purple circle) is classified as positive according to the model. (b) In unsupervised learning, all examples are unlabeled, and they are grouped according to the data distribution. (c) In semi-supervised learning, information of both labeled and unlabeled examples is used to learn the parameters of the model. In this illustration, a purely supervised model (dashed blue line) classifies the purple object as negative, while a semi-supervised model that avoids cutting at regions with a high density of genomic regions (solid blue line) classifies it as positive.