MTECH MACHINE LEARNING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Unit I: Introduction
1. What are well-posed problems in machine learning, and why are they important? Provide
examples?
2.Describe the importance of domain knowledge in machine learning, highlighting its role in
productive use of machine learning techniques and Provide examples?
3. Explain the difference between structured and unstructured data, providing examples of each.
Discuss how machine learning techniques can be applied to both types of data?
4. How does machine learning relate to data mining, and what are the key differences?
5. What is the significance of basic linear algebra in machine learning techniques?
Unit II: Supervised Learning
1. Describe the Occam's Razor principle and its role in avoiding overfitting?
2. What is computational learning theory, and how does it relate to machine learning?
3. Explain the difference between mean squared error (MSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) in
regression, and accuracy and precision in classification? Discuss the importance of estimating
generalization errors in supervised learning?
4. What metrics would you use to assess the performance of a regression model, and why?
5. Explain the difference between metrics for assessing regression and classification models?
Unit III: Statistical Learning
1. Discuss the relationship between machine learning and inferential statistical analysis?
2.Describe how Bayesian inference can be used for classification problems, and provide an example
of a Bayesian classifier?
3. Explain how the KNN algorithm works, and provide an example of its application in a real-world
problem?
4. Discuss linear regression with least square error criterion and its application?
5. Explain logistic regression for classification tasks and its importance?
Unit IV: Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Neural Networks
1. Explain the concept of large margin classifiers in SVM and its significance?
2. Discuss the role of kernel-induced feature spaces in SVM?
3. What is the perceptron algorithm, and how does it work?
4. Explain the Widrow-Hoff learning rule and its application in neural networks?
5. Discuss the error correction delta rule and its importance in neural networks?
Unit V: Multilayer Perceptron Networks and Decision Tree Learning
1. Explain the concept of error backpropagation in multilayer perceptron networks?
2. Discuss radial basis function networks and their application?
3. What is decision tree learning, and how does it work?
4. Explain the measures of impurity for evaluating splits in decision trees?
5. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the decision tree approach?