Sample Question
Machine Learning
5th Semester, CSIT
Module
Sl No Short Answer Type Questions
1. What do you understand by Machine learning? 1
2. What is the difference between Data Mining and Machine
1
Learning?
3. Why overfitting occurs? 1
4. Differentiate supervised and unsupervised machine learning. 1
5. What are the different types of Algorithm methods in 1
Machine Learning?
6. What is the trade-off between bias and variance? 1
7. What is inductive machine learning? 1
8. Explain different ways of creating Data Frames in Panda? 1
9. What are ways of creating 1D, 2D and 3D arrays in NumPy? 1
10. How do you find the data type of the elements stored in the 1
NumPy arrays?
11. How can you reverse a NumPy array? 1
12. How to reshape the matrix in numpy by python code? 1
13. Name a few libraries in Python used for Data Analysis and 1
Scientific Computations.
14. What is the main difference between a Pandas series and a 1
single-column DataFrame in Python?
15. How Will You Add An Index, Row, Or Column To A 1
Dataframe In Pandas?
16. How is KNN different from k-means? 2
17. What according to you, is the standard approach to supervised 2
learning?
18. What are the common ways to handle missing data in a
2
dataset?
19. What are the functions of Supervised Learning? 2
20. What are the functions of Unsupervised
What is SVM in machine learning? What are the classification 2
methods that SVM can handle?
21. How is a decision tree pruned? 2
22. Explain the Difference Between Classification and
2
Regression?
23. Explain Correlation and Covariance? 2
24. How can you handle duplicate values in a dataset for a 2
variable in Python?
25. What is Entropy in Machine Learning? 2
26. Can logistic regression use for more than 2 classes? 2
27. How is KNN different from K-means clustering? 2
28. What do you understand by Under fitting? 2
29. When does regularization become necessary in Machine
2
Learning?
30. Describe Precision and Recall? 3
31. Describe different types of dimension reduction techniques in
3
machine learning.
32. What is PCA? When do you use it? 3
33. Write down the difference between cluster vs classification. 3
34. Write down the python code for PCA . 3
35. How to calculate the right value for K in K-means Clustering? 3
36. How features reduction will do in machine learning ? 3
37. What do you understand by Reinforcement Learning
4
technique?
38. What is the difference between a Reward and a Value for a 4
given State?
39. What is Action() in RL? 4
40. What is State() in RL? 4
41. What is Reward() in RL? 4
42. What is Q-value() in RL? 4
43. What are the steps involved in a typical Reinforcement 4
Learning algorithm?
44. Are there any problems when using the Epsilon-Greedy 4
method to find the Optimal Policy?
45. Can you think of an example of an Epsilon-Greedy Policy in 4
real life?
46. What is Markov Decision Process? 4
47. How does Machine Learning differ from Deep Learning? 5
48. What is a Neural Network? 5
49. How does Deep Learning differ from Machine Learning? 5
50. What is Deep Learning? 5
51. What Do You Understand by Backpropagation? 5
52. Why is Tensorflow the Most Preferred Library in Deep
5
Learning?
53. What is a Neural Network?.Describe with Details. 5
54. What Is a Multi-layer Perceptron(MLP)? 5
55. What Are the Applications of a Recurrent Neural Network
5
(RNN)?
56. What Will Happen If the Learning Rate Is Set Too Low or 5
Too High?
57. Explain the working of a Perceptron 5
Focused Short Type Questions
58. Define Correlation. Describe the relationship with Bias 1
Variance trade off.
59.
How do you make sure which Machine Learning Algorithm to 1
use?
60. Describe and draw the diagram for under-fitting and over-
2
fitting.
61. What do you understand by the Confusion Matrix? 2
62. What according to you, is more important between model 2
accuracy and model performance?
63. What do you understand by Cluster Sampling? 3
64. Explain how a cluster is formed in the DBSCAN Clustering 3
Algorithm with an example.
65. What do you understand by the F1 score? 3
66. What is Q-value() and Epsilon-Greedy Algorithm in 4
Reinforcement Learning in RL? Discuss details.
67. Write down the elements of Reinforcement Learning . 4
68. What is Bagging and Boosting? 5
69. What Is the Role of Activation Functions in a Neural 5
Network? Describe the different types of activation function.
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72.
Long Type Questions
73. How to Handle Outlier Values? 1
74. What is ‘Naive’ in a Naive Bayes? 2
75. Explain SVM Algorithm in Details. 2
76. What is the difference between Gini Impurity and Entropy in 2
a Decision Tree?
77. Write down the python Code for K-means clustering. 3
78. How K-Means is differing from K-Mode clustering. Describe 3
in details.(FIG)
79. Write down the python Code for PCA algorithm. 3
80. Why bellman equation is more important in reinforcement 4
learning. Describe it details in example.
81. Describe MDP model with an example. 4
82. Provide an intuitive explanation of what is a Policy in 4
Reinforcement learning
83. What Is the Difference Between a Feedforward Neural
Network and Recurrent Neural Network? Describe with a 5
problem and diagram.
84. Write Down Short Note (4 * 2.5)
a) a) Stacking
b) RNN
c) Explortion and Exploitation
d) LDA
e) Random Forest algorithm
f) KNN
g) Performance Unit in ML
h) Uderfitting and Overfitting
