Machine Learning (1)
Machine Learning (1)
SECTION –A 10 X 2 =20
1 a Define machine learning and list its primary paradigms L2 CO1 [2M]
b What is reinforcement learning? Provide an example. L1 CO1 [2M]
c Describe the concept of proximity measures in machine learning. L2 CO2 [2M]
d What is the K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) classifier? L1 CO2 [2M]
e Explain the concept of impurity measures in decision trees. L3 CO3 [2M]
f What is Bayes' rule? Write its mathematical formula. L1 CO3 [2M]
g Define linear discriminants in the context of machine learning L1 CO4 [2M]
h What is the kernel trick in support vector machines? L2 CO4 [2M]
i Explain the concept of clustering in machine learning. L2 CO5 [2M]
j Differentiate between K-means clustering and fuzzy C-means L4 CO5 [2M]
clustering.
SECTION –B 5 X 10 =50
UNIT-I
2 a Discuss the stages in machine learning with examples. L2 CO1 [5M]
b Explain the process and importance of feature engineering in machine L3 CO1 [5M]
learning.
OR
3 a What are the different types of data in machine learning? Provide L2 CO1 [5M]
examples.
b Describe the process of model evaluation and prediction. Include its L3 CO1 [5M]
significance.
UNIT-II
4 a What are distance measures? Explain any two with examples L2 CO2 [5M]
b Describe the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) regression algorithm with L3 CO2 [5M]
an example.
OR
5 a Discuss the performance evaluation techniques for classification L2 CO2 [5M]
algorithms
b Explain the Radius Distance Nearest Neighbor algorithm. Compare it L4 CO2 [5M]
with KNN.
(P.T.O)
UNIT-III
6 a What are decision trees? Explain their properties. L2 CO3 [5M]
b Write a detailed note on the bias-variance trade-off with respect to L3 CO3 [5M]
decision trees.
OR
7 a Discuss the Naive Bayes Classifier and its applications in multi-class L2 CO3 [5M]
classification
b Explain how random forests improve classification and regression L4 CO3 [5M]
tasks
UNIT-IV
8 a Describe the perceptron learning algorithm with a diagram. L2 CO4 [5M]
b Explain logistic regression and its application in classification. L3 CO4 [5M]
OR
9 a Discuss the backpropagation algorithm used for training multi-layer L3 CO4 [5M]
perceptron.
b Compare and contrast linear and non-linear support vector machines. L4 CO4 [5M]
UNIT-V
10 a Explain K-means clustering with its algorithm and provide an L2 CO5 [5M]
example.
b Write a detailed note on expectation-maximization-based clustering. L3 CO5 [5M]
OR
11 a Discuss the differences between agglomerative and divisive clustering L2 CO5 [5M]
methods.
b What is spectral clustering? Explain its process and applications. L4 CO5 [5M]
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