Tom Mitchell(1997):假设用P来评估计算机程序在某任务类T上的性能,若一个程序通过利用经验E在T中任务上获得了性能改善,则我们就说关于T和P,该程序对E进行了学习(A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E)