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Question Bank of Machine Learning
CS 621
SECTION A
1. Explain Machine learning in detail.
2. Define Hypothesis space
3. List out any four application of machine learning
4. Differentiate between Supervised and unsupervised learning.
5. Differentiate between Linear Regression and Logistics Regression
6. Define entropy
7. Compare and Contrast batch learning and online learning with their strength and weaknesses
8. Describe in details relationship between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep learning.
9. Explain Convolution neural network
10. Discuss linear regression with an example. Explain the role of hypothesis function in machine
learning models
11. Write down procedure of recurrent neural network.
12. What are the challenges faced in Supervised Machine Learning algorithms?
13. What does the future of ML outlook look alike?
14. What is hypothesis testing?
15. What is the partial least square?
16. What is the goal of support vector machine? How to compute the margin?
17. Explain Hidden Markov model.
18. Explain principle component analysis with algorithm.
19. Explain Inductive machine learning
20. Discuss Bagging and Boosting.
21. Considering an example, calculate the classification hierarchy.
22. Explain how back propagation algorithms help in classification.
23. Describe the random forest algorithm to improve classifier accuracy.
24. Explain Hidden Markov model.
25. What is the goal of support vector machine?
SECTION B
1. Define PCA? What does PCA does do? How do compute PCA.
2. Describe the concept on density based clustering and write the steps involved in DBSCAN algorithm
3. Explain the concept and role of support vector machine in details. Also, describe its application
Areas
4. Describe the random forest algorithm to improve classifier accuracy.
5. Considering an example, calculate the classification hierarchy.
6. Discuss in detail when ML is preferred over MAP and MAP over MLE
7. Explain the classification of decision trees with an example
8. Explain the following i) Voting classifier ii) LASSO
9. Explain the concept of different layers in Neural network. What do you mean by the term
convolution layer, pooling layer, loss layer, dense layer? Describe each one in brief.
10. What are the different types of Neural networks? Explain the convolution neural network model in
detail.
11. Explain the process of Sub-sampling of input data in neural network model. Some of the features
of Keras framework for implementing neural networks models.
12. Explain the multilayer perceptron model in detail with neat diagram
13. Discuss the difference between training set and testing set
14. Demonstrate the supervised learning structure.
15. Short note on a) Bias and variance b) Bias and variance trade off
16. What is dimensionality reduction?
17. Justify the necessity for dimensionality reduction in the context of machine
learning.
18. Determine activation function and list few activation functions with Description
19. Compare Linear Vs nonlinear regression
20. How dimensionality reduction is important in NN? Justify
21. Explain principle component analysis with algorithm.
22. Write short notes on any two. i) Big data and map reduce ii) Subset selection
23. Explain the concept and role of support vector machine in details. Also, describe its application
Areas
24. Develop the concepts of K- Nearest Neighbors.
25. How does the structure of decision tree help in classifying a data instance?
SECTION C
1. Define reinforcements learning in ML? List any two applications.
2. Explain the issues involved in machine learning?
3. Explain the k-Means Algorithm with an example
4. What are the challenges faced in supervised machine learning algorithm?
5. Explain Lifecycle of machine learning with a neat diagram
6. Explain in detail about Gaussian Mixture Model.
7. Write the General Expectation (EM) Algorithm
8. What is pruning in decision tree? How it to be done.
9. Explain Random Forest algorithm and explain different regression problem
10. What is linear regression? Explain in details with example.
11. What is cross validation? Explain re sampling method in ML?
12. Explain appropriate problems for decision tree learning.
13. Describe the characteristics of back propagation algorithm.
14. What is Gaussian Mixture density estimation with example?
