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Introduction to Machine Learning - - Unit 9 - Week 6

The document outlines the Week 6 assignment for the 'Introduction to Machine Learning' course, focusing on decision trees and their properties. It includes questions on decision tree algorithms, overfitting indicators, and entropy calculations, along with the correct answers and scores for each question. The assignment submission deadline was March 5, 2025, and some answers were marked correct or incorrect based on the provided statements.

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Introduction to Machine Learning - - Unit 9 - Week 6

The document outlines the Week 6 assignment for the 'Introduction to Machine Learning' course, focusing on decision trees and their properties. It includes questions on decision tree algorithms, overfitting indicators, and entropy calculations, along with the correct answers and scores for each question. The assignment submission deadline was March 5, 2025, and some answers were marked correct or incorrect based on the provided statements.

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1) Statement: Decision Tree is an unsupervised learning algorithm. 1 point
Reason: The splitting criterion use only the features of the data to calculate their respective
measures
Course
Statement is True. Reason is True.
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Statement is True. Reason is False

About Statement is False. Reason is True


NPTEL () Statement is False. Reason is False

No, the answer is incorrect.


How does an Score: 0
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work? () 2) Increasing the pruning strength in a decision tree by reducing the maximum depth: 1 point

Week 0 () Will always result in improved validation accuracy.


Will lead to more overfitting
Week 1 () Might lead to underfitting if set too aggressively
Will have no impact on the tree’s performance.
Week 2 ()
Will eliminate the need for validation data.
Week 3 () Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Week 4 () Accepted Answers:
Might lead to underfitting if set too aggressively
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3) What is a common indicator of overfitting in a decision tree? 1 point


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The training accuracy is high while the validation accuracy is low.
Decision Trees
- Introduction The tree is shallow.
(unit? The tree has only a few leaf nodes.
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The tree’s depth matches the number of attributes in the dataset.
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The tree’s predictions are consistently biased.
Regression
Trees (unit?
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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Accepted Answers:
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The training accuracy is high while the validation accuracy is low.
Decision Trees
- Stopping 4) Consider the following statements: 1 point
Criteria and
Statement 1: Decision Trees are linear non-parametric models.
Pruning (unit?
Statement 2: A decision tree may be used to explain the complex function learned by a neural
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network.
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Decision Trees Both the statements are True.


for Statement 1 is True, but Statement 2 is False.
Classification -
Statement 1 is False, but Statement 2 is True.
Loss
Functions Both the statements are False.
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Yes, the answer is correct.
unit=71&lesso Score: 1
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Accepted Answers:
Decision Trees Statement 1 is False, but Statement 2 is True.
- Categorical
Attributes 5) Entropy for a 50-50 split between two classes is: 1 point
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Decision Trees 1
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6) Consider a dataset with only one attribute(categorical). Suppose, there are 10 1 point
Imputation,
unordered values in this attribute, how many possible combinations are needed to find the best
Surrogate
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1024
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Smoothness, 512
Repeated
Yes, the answer is correct.
Subtrees Score: 1
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