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Assume there are only 3 people A, B, C working for a company. In other words, the employees of the company consists of A, B and C. So, A is a colleague of B or C.

Machine learning (M) is a field of computer science, consists of supervised learning (S), unsupervised learning (U) and reinforcement learning (R).

Similar to "colleague", is there a term used to describe the relationship between several different and related sub-fields (M, S, U) within a field (R)?

M, S, U and R are not commonly used abbreviation, I used them here just to make the expression easier to understand.

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In this case, I would use a particular sense of counterpart:

2 b : something that completes : COMPLEMENT
// the lead actress and her male counterpart

When you divide something into parts, each part (counterpart) is an essential component of the whole.

So:

Supervised learning (S), unsupervised learning (U), and reinforcement learning (R) are counterparts of each other (within the field of computer science).

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