# Inference (machine learning) > The process of making predictions by applying a trained model to unlabeled examples. Inference has a somewhat different meaning in Statistics. See Inference (statistics)[^1] The process of making predictions by applying a trained model to [unlabeled examples](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Unlabeled%20example.txt). Inference has a somewhat different meaning in [Statistics](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Statistics.txt). See [Inference (statistics)](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Inference%20(statistics.txt))[^1] ## Footnotes [^1]: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary#inference