Machine Learning – Unit wise Important Questions

UNIT-1
Short Answer Questions
Course
Blooms
QUESTIONS Learning
taxonomy level
Outcomes
1.What is Machine learning? What is the need of it? Remember CO1
2.Give the structure of learning problem. Remember CO2, CO3
3.What is concept learning? Remember CO3
4.Give example for General-to-Specific Ordering of
Remember CO3
Hypotheses.
5.List the appropriate problems for decision tree learning. Understand CO4
6.List the issues in decision tree learning. Understand CO4

Long Answer Questions

Blooms Course
QUESTIONS taxonomy Learning
level Outcomes
1.Describe the EnjoySport concept learning task. Explain Find-S
Understand CO3
algorithm.
2.Explain Candidate-Elimination Algorithm. Explain LIST-
Understand CO3
THEN-ELIMINATE Algorithm
3.Explain version space with representation theorem and Define
Understand CO3
general boundary and specific boundary.
4.Let consider designing a program to learn play checkers, with
the goal of entering it in the world checkers tournament. Propose a Understand CO3
target function to be learned and a target representation.
5.Describe A decision tree for classification on the concept Play
Understand CO4
Tennis

UNIT-2
Short Answer Questions
Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.What is a perceptron? Remember CO5
2.Draw the representational power of perceptron. Understand CO5
3.Show the feed forward representation of the multilayer Understand CO5
networks
4.List the representational power of feedforward networks Remember CO5
5.Define the binomial distribution Remember CO5

Long Answer Questions

Course
Blooms
QUESTIONS Learning
taxonomy level
Outcomes
1.Explain the stochastic gradient version of the Backpropagation Understand CO5
algorithm for feedforward networks.
2.Describe the appropriate problems for neural network learning Understand CO5
3.Describe the general approach for deriving confidence Understand CO5
intervals
4.Explain the remarks on the backpropagation algorithm Understand CO5
5.Describe various advanced areas in artificial neural networks Understand CO5

UNIT-3
Short Answer Questions
Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.State Bayes theorem Remember CO6
2.Discuss Maximum Likelihood and Least Square Error Understand CO6
Hypothesis.
3.Describe Maximum Likelihood Hypothesis for predicting Understand CO6
probabilities.
4.Define Gibbs algorithm Remember CO6
5.What are the merits and demerits of lazy learners Remember CO6

Long Answer Questions

Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.Explain Naïve Bayes Classifier with an Example. Understand CO6
2.Explain Bayesian belief network with an example Understand CO6
3.Illustrate the EM algorithm Apply CO6
4.What are the applications of probably learning an Remember CO6
approximately correct model
4.Demonstrate k-nearest neighbour algorithm for classification Apply CO6
5.Discuss the significance of locally weighted regression Understand CO6
UNIT-4
Short Answer Questions
Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.List the factors motivated the popularity of genetic algorithms Remember CO7
2.State Baldwin Effect Remember CO7
3.Give an example for fitness function in genetic algorithms Understand CO7
4.Write the Sequential Covering algorithm for learning a Understand CO8
disjunctive set of rules.
5.Define Q-learning Remember CLO8

Long Answer Questions

Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.Create or generate new offspring from the given population
Create CO7
for genetic algorithm? Illustrate.
2.Write the genetic Algorithm Understand CO7
3.Illustrate general-to-specific beam search algorithm for Learn-
Apply CO8
One-Rule.
4.Illustrate the basic FOIL algorithm Apply CO8
5.Demonstrate Q-learning algorithm with an example. Apply CO8
6.Illustrate to handle nondeterministic MDPs (Markov Decision
Apply CO8
Process)?
UNIT-5
Short Answer Questions
Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.Describe Analytical Learning Understand CO9
2.Define the weakest preimage of a conclusion Remember CO9
3.Define Approximate inductive bias of PROLOG-EBG Remember CO9
4.Explain the FOCL algorithm Understand CO9
5.Compare and contrast purely analytical and purely inductive
Analyze CO9
learning
Long Answer Questions
Blooms Course
QUESTIONS
taxonomy level outcomes
1.List the main properties of PROLOG-EBG algorithm? Is it
Remember CO9
deductive or inductive? Justify your answer.
2.Illustrate Inductive-Analytical approaches to learning Apply CO9
3.Demonstrate the EBNN algorithm Apply CO9
4.“Explanation determines feature relevance.” Substantiate this
Understand CO9
statement with respect to explanation based learning.
5.Write KBANN algorithm to explain usage of prior knowledge
Understand CO9
to reduce complexity.