Introduction To Machine Learning IIT MADRAS

Introduction To Machine Learning

IMP QUESTIONS PART 1

Question 1:
What is Machine Learning?
A) A computer program that learns from user inputs
B) A branch of artificial intelligence where computers learn from data

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C) A software that mimics human behavior
D) A form of advanced robotics

from data

Question 2:
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Accepted Answer: B) A branch of artificial intelligence where computers learn
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Which of the following is a supervised learning algorithm?
A) K-Means Clustering
B) Decision Trees
C) Apriori Algorithm
D) Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
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Accepted Answer: B) Decision Trees

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Question 3:
What is the purpose of an algorithm in machine learning?
A) To provide input data
B) To store training data
C) To transform input data into predictions
D) To create visualizations

Accepted Answer: C) To transform input data into predictions

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Question 4:
In machine learning, what is an "epoch"?
A) A specific date and time for training the model
B) A measure of model performance
C) One complete pass through the entire training dataset
D) A unit of computational measurement

Accepted Answer: C) One complete pass through the entire training dataset

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Question 5:
What is the role of the "loss function" in machine learning?
A) To evaluate how well the model is performing

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B) To generate random data for training
C) To store training examples
D) To provide input to the model
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Accepted Answer: A) To evaluate how well the model is performing

Question 6:
Which of the following is a type of unsupervised learning algorithm?
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A) Linear Regression
B) Support Vector Machines
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C) K-Means Clustering
D) Naive Bayes
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Accepted Answer: C) K-Means Clustering

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Question 7:
What is the purpose of feature scaling in machine learning?
A) To improve model accuracy
B) To reduce overfitting
C) To standardize the range of independent variables
D) To add more features to the dataset

Accepted Answer: C) To standardize the range of independent variables

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Question 8:
What does the term "overfitting" mean in the context of machine learning?
A) The model performs well on the training data but poorly on new, unseen
data

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B) The model is too simple to capture patterns in the data
C) The model has too few parameters
D) The model is perfectly generalized to any dataset
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Accepted Answer: A) The model performs well on the training data but poorly
on new, unseen data

Question 9:
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Which machine learning algorithm is inspired by the way the human brain
works?
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A) Decision Trees
B) Artificial Neural Networks
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C) Support Vector Machines

D) K-Means Clustering

Accepted Answer: B) Artificial Neural Networks

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Question 10:
What is the purpose of the validation set in machine learning?
A) To train the model
B) To test the model's performance on new, unseen data
C) To provide initial input to the model
D) To provide labels for the training data

Accepted Answer: B) To test the model's performance on new, unseen data

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Question 11:
Which machine learning task involves predicting a continuous value?
A) Classification
B) Regression
C) Clustering
D) Anomaly Detection
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Accepted Answer: B) Regression

Question 12:
In reinforcement learning, what is the agent?
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A) The environment where the learning takes place

B) The set of possible actions in a given state
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C) The algorithm or model that learns to make decisions

D) The reward provided to the model
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Accepted Answer: C) The algorithm or model that learns to make decisions

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Question 13:
What is the main challenge in training deep learning models?
A) Lack of available data
B) High computational requirements and need for powerful hardware
C) Limited number of features
D) Low accuracy

Accepted Answer: B) High computational requirements and need for powerful

hardware

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Question 14:
What is the purpose of cross-validation in machine learning?
A) To combine multiple models into one

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B) To test a model's performance on an independent dataset
C) To increase the model's complexity
D) To train the model using more features
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Accepted Answer: B) To test a model's performance on an independent

dataset

Question 15:
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Which technique is used to handle missing data in a dataset?

A) Dropping the entire row with missing data
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B) Replacing missing values with the mean or median of the available data
C) Ignoring missing values and proceeding with the analysis
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D) Removing the entire column with missing data

Accepted Answer: B) Replacing missing values with the mean or median of

the available data

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Question 16:
What does the term "bias" refer to in machine learning?
A) A measure of how well the model performs on new data
B) An error introduced by approximating a real-world problem with a
simplified model
C) The difference between predicted values and actual values
D) The variability of a model's predictions

Accepted Answer: B) An error introduced by approximating a real-world

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problem with a simplified model

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