Unsupervised learning refers to machine learning contexts in which there is no prior 'training' period in which the learning agent is trained on objects of known type. As such, supervised learning includes such disciplines as mathematical clustering, whereby data is segmented into clusters based on the minimisation or maximisation of mathematical properties and not on an attempt to classify by understanding the right context.
Unsupervised learning (or clustering) refers to machine learning algorithms in which there is no 'label' available for the training data and the model tries to learn the underlying manifold. As such, unsupervised learning includes such disciplines as mathematical clustering, whereby data is segmented into clusters based on the minimization or maximization of mathematical properties and not on an attempt to classify by understanding the right context.
