Q. What are support vectors?

  • (A) all the examples that have a non-zero weight ??k in a svm
  • (B) the only examples necessary to compute f(x) in an svm.
  • (C) all of the above
  • (D) none of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) all of the above

Q. A perceptron adds up all the weighted inputs it receives, and if it exceeds a certain value, it outputs a 1, otherwise it just outputs a 0.

  • (A) true
  • (B) false
  • (C) sometimes – it can also output intermediate values as well
  • (D) can’t say
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) true

Q. What is the purpose of the Kernel Trick?

  • (A) to transform the data from nonlinearly separable to linearly separable
  • (B) to transform the problem from regression to classification
  • (C) to transform the problem from supervised to unsupervised learning.
  • (D) all of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) to transform the data from nonlinearly separable to linearly separable

Q. Which of the following can only be used when training data are linearlyseparable?

  • (A) linear hard-margin svm
  • (B) linear logistic regression
  • (C) linear soft margin svm
  • (D) parzen windows
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βœ… Correct Answer: (A) linear hard-margin svm

Q. The firing rate of a neuron

  • (A) determines how strongly the dendrites of the neuron stimulate axons of neighboring neurons
  • (B) is more analogous to the output of a unit in a neural net than the output voltage of the neuron
  • (C) only changes very slowly, taking a period of several seconds to make large adjustments
  • (D) can sometimes exceed 30,000 action potentials per second
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βœ… Correct Answer: (B) is more analogous to the output of a unit in a neural net than the output voltage of the neuron

Q. Which of the following evaluation metrics can not be applied in case of logistic regression output to compare with target?

  • (A) auc-roc
  • (B) accuracy
  • (C) logloss
  • (D) mean-squared-error
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βœ… Correct Answer: (D) mean-squared-error

Q. The cost parameter in the SVM means:

  • (A) the number of cross-validations to be made
  • (B) the kernel to be used
  • (C) the tradeoff between misclassification and simplicity of the model
  • (D) none of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) the tradeoff between misclassification and simplicity of the model

Q. The kernel trick

  • (A) can be applied to every classification algorithm
  • (B) is commonly used for dimensionality reduction
  • (C) changes ridge regression so we solve a d ?? d linear system instead of an n ?? n system, given n sample points with d features
  • (D) exploits the fact that in many learning algorithms, the weights can be written as a linear combination of input points
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βœ… Correct Answer: (D) exploits the fact that in many learning algorithms, the weights can be written as a linear combination of input points

Q. How does the bias-variance decomposition of a ridge regression estimator compare with that of ordinary least squares regression?

  • (A) ridge has larger bias, larger variance
  • (B) ridge has smaller bias, larger variance
  • (C) ridge has larger bias, smaller variance
  • (D) ridge has smaller bias, smaller variance
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βœ… Correct Answer: (C) ridge has larger bias, smaller variance

Q. Which of the following are real world applications of the SVM?

  • (A) text and hypertext categorization
  • (B) image classification
  • (C) clustering of news articles
  • (D) all of the above
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βœ… Correct Answer: (D) all of the above

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