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Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Technology, Bhat: Computer Engineering Department

This document contains question banks for several units in a Machine Learning course, including questions about foundational concepts in machine learning, preparing data for modeling, modeling and evaluation techniques, feature engineering, Bayesian concept learning, and supervised learning classification. The questions cover topics such as defining machine learning, applications of machine learning, designing a learning system, unsupervised learning types, quantitative and qualitative data, model training and evaluation methods like cross-validation, overfitting and underfitting, Naive Bayes classification, and common classification algorithms.

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Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Technology, Bhat: Computer Engineering Department

This document contains question banks for several units in a Machine Learning course, including questions about foundational concepts in machine learning, preparing data for modeling, modeling and evaluation techniques, feature engineering, Bayesian concept learning, and supervised learning classification. The questions cover topics such as defining machine learning, applications of machine learning, designing a learning system, unsupervised learning types, quantitative and qualitative data, model training and evaluation methods like cross-validation, overfitting and underfitting, Naive Bayes classification, and common classification algorithms.

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Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Technology, Bhat

Computer Engineering Department


Subject: Machine Learning (3170724)
Semester-7th
Question Bank (2021-22)

Unit-1 Introduction to Machine Learning

1. Define Machine Learning. Discuss with examples why machine learning is


important.
2. Discuss with examples some useful applications of machine learning.
3. Explain how some areas/disciplines that influenced the machine learning.
4. What do you mean by a well–posed learning problem? Explain the important
features that are required to well–define a learning problem.
5. Define learning program for a given problem. Describe the following problems
with respect to Tasks, Performance and Experience:
a. Checkers Learning Problems
b. Handwritten Recognition Problem
c. Robot Driving Learning Problem
6. Describe in detail all the steps involved in designing a learning system.
7. Discuss the perspective and issues in machine learning.
8. Explain the process of clustering in details.
9. Explain the concept of Regression in Machine Learning.
10.Explain the different forms of machine learning with a few examples.
11.What are the different types of unsupervised learning? Explain them difference
with a sample application in each area.

Unit-2 Preparing to Model


1. Explain quantitative and qualitative data in details. Differentiate between the
two.
2. Write short note on any two:
a. Histogram
b. Scatter plot
c. PCA
3. What are the main activities involved in machine learning? What is meant by
data preprocessing.
4. What is IQR? How it is measured?
5. Differentiate between Mean and Median.

Unit-3 Modelling and Evaluation


1. What is a model in context of machine learning? How can you train a
model?
2. Explain, in details the process of K-fold cross validation.
3. Explain the bootstrap sampling? Why is it needed?
4. Explain lazy and eager learner.
5. Write short note on Holdout method, 10-fold cross-validation and Parameter
tuning.
6. What is underfitting in context of machine learning models? What is the
major cause of underfitting?
7. What is overfitting? When does it happen?
8. Explain bias-variance trade-off in context of model fitting.
9. What are the most popular measures of performance for an unsupervised
learning model?
10. While predicting malignancy of tumour of a set of patients using a
classification model, following are the data recorded:
a. Correct predictions – 15 malignant, 75 benign
b. Incorrect predictions – 3 malignant, 7 benign

Calculate the error rate, Kappa value, sensitivity, precision and F-


measure of the model.

11. Write short note on predictive and descriptive models.

Unit-4 Basics of Feature Engineering

1. What is feature engineering? Explain, in details, the different aspects of


feature engineering.
2. Explain the process of encoding nominal variables.
3. Differentiate feature transformation with feature selection.
4. Write short note on:
a. SVD
b. Hybrid method of feature selection
c. Silhouette width
d. ROC curve
e. Wrapper method of feature selection
5. What are the different distance measures that can be used to determine
similarity of features?

Unit-6 Bayesian Concept Learning

1. What is prior probability?


2. What is posterior probability? Give an example.
3. Explain Naïve Bayes classifier with an example of its use in practical life.
4. Is it possible to use Naïve Bayes classifier for continuous numeric data? If
so, how?
5. What are Bayesian Belief network? Where are they used? Can they solve all
types of problems?
6. Write any two weakness of Bayes classifier.
7. What are the applications of Naïve Bayes Classifier?
8. Define the concept of consistent learner.

Unit-7 Supervised Learning: Classification

1. Give any three examples of supervised learning.


2. Write short note on:
a. Validation error in the kNN algorithm
b. Choosing k value in kNN algorithm
3. Give some examples of common classification algorithms.
4. Discuss how to calculate the distance between the test data and the training
data for kNN.

Prepared by:
Prof. Jyoti Gautam
Asst. Prof. CE Dept

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