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MACHINE

LEARNING
ALGORITHMS

Karn S ingh
Linear Regression
• Overview
Linear regression is a foundational algorithm in machine learning,
used for predicting a continuous variable.

• Learning Objectives
• Understand the theory behind linear regression.
• Learn to implement linear regression in Python.

• Practice Questions
1.Implement linear regression to predict housing prices using a
given dataset.
2. How would you evaluate the performance of your linear regression
model?
Logistic Regression
• Overview
Logistic regression is used for binary classification problems, such as spam
detection or predicting whether a customer will make a purchase.

• Learning Objectives
• Grasp the concept of logistic regression and its difference from linear
regression.
• Practice implementing logistic regression on a binary classification
problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Use logistic regression to classify emails as spam or not spam.
2. Discuss how changing the threshold value affects the model's
performance.
Decision Trees
• Overview
Decision trees are powerful for both classification and regression
tasks. They are intuitive and easy to interpret.

• Learning Objectives
• Learn how decision trees are built, including the concepts of entropy and
information gain.
• Implement a decision tree on a classification problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Create a decision tree to predict customer churn.
2. How do decision trees handle overfitting?
Random Forest
• Overview
Random Forest is an ensemble learning method that operates by constructing
multiple decision trees during training time.

• Learning Objectives
• Understand the concept of ensemble learning and how random forests
improve upon single decision trees.
• Implement a random forest model to solve a problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Use a random forest to improve the model created on Day 3 for predicting
customer churn.
2. Compare the performance of the decision tree and random forest models.
Support Vector Machines
• Overview
SVMs are powerful for high-dimensional spaces and are used for
classification and regression tasks.

• 'Learning Objectives
• Learn the theory behind SVMs, including the kernel trick.
• Practice implementing SVMs on a dataset.

• Practice Questions
1.Implement an SVM to classify images of handwritten digits.
2. Experiment with different kernels and compare their effects on the model's
performance.
K-Nearest Neighbors
• Overview
KNN is a simple, instance-based learning algorithm where the class of a sample
is determined by the majority class among its k nearest neighbors.

• Learning Objectives
•Understand the KNN algorithm and its application.
•Implement KNN for a classification problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Use KNN to classify patients as either having a disease or not based on
their medical records.
2. How does the choice of 'k' affect the performance and how would you
select it?
Naive Bayes
• Overview
Naive Bayes classifiers are a family of simple probabilistic classifiers based
on applying Bayes' theorem with strong independence assumptions
between the features.

• Learning Objectives
• Learn about the theory and assumptions behind Naive Bayes.
• Apply Naive Bayes to a text classification problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Classify news articles into categories using Naive Bayes.
2. Discuss the assumption of feature independence in Naive Bayes. Is it always
valid?
K-Means Clustering
• Overview
K-Means is a type of unsupervised learning algorithm used for clustering.

• Learning Objectives
• Understand the concept and algorithm behind K-Means
clustering.
• Implement K-Means to segment a dataset into clusters.

• Practice Questions
1. Use K-Means to cluster customers based on their shopping habits.
2. How do you determine the optimal number of clusters?
Principal Component Analysis
• Overview
PCA is a dimensionality reduction technique used to reduce the
dimensionality of large datasets.

• Learning Objectives
• Grasp the concept of dimensionality reduction and the
algorithm behind PCA.
• Apply PCA on a dataset and visualize the results.

• Practice Questions
1. Implement PCA to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset containing
images of faces.
2. How does PCA affect the performance of a classifier trained on the reduced
dataset?
Gradient Boosting Machines
• Overview
GBMs are a group of machine learning algorithms that use boosting
techniques to improve prediction accuracy.

• Learning Objectives
•Understand the principles of boosting and how GBMs build upon it to
minimize loss.
•Implement a GBM model to tackle a complex regression or classification
problem.

• Practice Questions
1. Apply a GBM model to improve prediction accuracy on a dataset used in
previous days. Compare its performance against models like decision
trees and random forests.
2. Explore how changing parameters (such as learning rate, number of
trees) affects the model's performance and overfitting.
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