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Quiz 1

The document is a quiz for a machine learning course covering topics like supervised vs unsupervised learning, classification vs regression problems, and definitions of machine learning. It contains 25 multiple choice questions testing understanding of these concepts.

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Machine Learning, Spring 2021 (18-CP) Quiz 1

Instructor: Dr. Waqar Ahmad, Time Allowed: 1 hour, Total Marks: 25

Student Registration #: _____________

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1. A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some
performance measure P if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.
Suppose we feed a learning algorithm a lot of historical weather data, and have it learn to
predict weather. In this setting what is T?
(a) The process of the algorithm examining a large amount of historical data.
(b) None of these.
(c) The weather prediction task.
(d) The probability of it correctly prediction a future date’s weather.
2. Suppose you are working on weather prediction, and use a learning algorithm to predict
tomorrow’s temperature (in Degrees Centigrade/Fahrenheit). Would you treat this as a
classification or a regression problem?
(a) Regression
(b) Classification
3. Suppose you are working on stock market prediction, typically tens of millions of shares of
Microsoft stock are traded (i.e., bought/sold) each day. You would like to predict the number of
Microsoft shares that will be traded tomorrow. Would you treat this as a classification or a
regression problem?
(a) Regression
(b) Classification
4. Some of the problems below are best addressed using a supervised learning algorithm, and the
others with an unsupervised learning algorithm. Which of the following would you apply
supervised learning to? (Select all that apply.) In each case, assume some appropriate dataset is
available for your algorithm to learn from.
(a) Given genetic (DNA) data from a person, predict the odds of him/her developing
diabetes over the 10 years.
(b) Have a computer examine an audio clip of a piece of music, and classify whether or
not there are vocals (i.e., a human voice singing) in that audio clip, or if it is a clip of
only musical instruments (and no vocals).
(c) Given data on hoe 1000 medical patients respond to an experimental drug (such as
effectiveness of the treatment, side effects, etc.), discover whether there are
different categories of “types” of patients in terms of how they respond to the drug,
and if so what these categories are.
(d) Given a large dataset of medical records from patients suffering from heart disease,
try to learn whether there might be different clusters of such patients for which we
might tailor separate treatments.
5. Which of these is a reasonable definition of machine learning?
(a) Machine learning is the field of allowing robots to act intelligently.
(b) Machine learning is the science of programming computers.
(c) Machine learning learns from labeled data.
(d) Machine learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn
without being explicitly programmed.
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