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MACHINE LEARNING

INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
Since the demand for ML professionals is high. Use
this document to prepare for commonly asked ML
interview questions.

Jadeja Satyarajsinh [email protected]


Basic Machine
Learning Interview
Questions

Let's begin by exploring some


frequently asked questions
and their corresponding
answers in machine learning
interviews.

*Disclaimer*
The content in this document
is for educational and
informational purposes only.
While every effort has been
made to ensure accuracy, it
does not guarantee success in
interviews.
General Questions
1. What Are the Different Types of Machine

Learning?

2. What is Overfitting and Underfitting? How to

tackle them?

3. What is Bias-Variance tradeoff?

4. Explain the concept of cross-validation? Why

it is important?

5. What is regularization ? Why is is useful ?

6. What do you understand by the Confusion

Matrix 1
7. Explain the difference between Classification
and Regression algorithms.

8. What is Linear Regression and how can we


calculate error in linear regression?

9. Difference between Loss function and Cost


function?

10. What do you mean by Logistic Regression


and explain the logic behind it.

11. What is a decision tree, and how is it used in


machine learning?

12. Explain the concepts of Gini Impurity and


Entropy. How are they used in decision trees?

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13. What is a Support Vector Machine (SVM), and
what are its main applications in machine learning.

14. Explain the concept of a hyperplane in the context


of SVM.

15. What is the Hinge Loss ?

16. How does ‘ Random Forest ’ works ?

17. What do you mean by Bagging?

18. Explain about parameters used to fine-tune the


Random Forest.

19. Can you list and describe the types of Naive


Bayes classifiers ?
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20. Explain how a Naive Bayes classifier can be
used for spam detection.

21. What is the formula given by Bayes theorem ?

22. What is Gradient Boosting, and how does it


work ?

23. How is Gradient Boosting different from other


ensemble methods like Bagging or Random
Forests ?

24. What is regularization in Logistic Regression?


Explain L1 (Lasso) and L2 (Ridge) regularization.

25. Given a dataset, how would you decide which


Machine Learning algorithm to use?
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26. You are given a data set consisting of variables
with more than 30 % missing values. How will you
deal with that ?

27. When would you use the mean, median, and


mode to summarize a dataset ?

28. What is the difference between Feature


Extraction and Feature Engineering in machine
learning ?

29. What is Type I and Type II Error ?

30. What is the significance of the learning rate in


Gradient Descent ?

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