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Course outline Week 1 : Assignment 1
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Week 0 () 1) Consider the problem of classifying whether the given fruit is a muskmelon (Label:1) or a mango (Label:0). The following 1 point
table shows the weight values collected for 5 muskmelons and 5 mango’s.Choose which of the following threshold value solves this
Week 1 () problem with zero classification error?
Paradigms of Machine
Learning (unit?
unit=21&lesson=32)
Few more examples
(unit?
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unit=21&lesson=33)
Types of Learning
(unit?
unit=21&lesson=34)
Types of supervised
learning (unit?
unit=21&lesson=35)
Introduction to
Regression (unit?
unit=21&lesson=36)
Linear regression (unit?
unit=21&lesson=37)
Geometrical
Interpretation (unit?
unit=21&lesson=38) 2
Iterative solution:
2.5
Gradient descent (unit? 3
unit=21&lesson=39)
3.5
Gradient Descent (unit? Doesn’t exist
unit=21&lesson=40)
Yes, the answer is correct.
Choosing Step size Score: 1
(unit? Accepted Answers:
unit=21&lesson=41) Doesn’t exist
Taylor Series (unit? 2) Assume that a student blindly (i.e., without looking for any specific genre) gathers tons of e-books from his friends over 1 point
unit=21&lesson=43) months and store them in a single directory. After learning about machine learning algorithms, she decided to group the books into
multiple categories by reading the contents of the books one by one automatically. Which of the following algorithm is more suitable
Stochastic Gradient
for her?
Descent and basis
functions (unit?
Supervised classification algorithms
unit=21&lesson=42)
Unsupervised clustering algorithms
Regularization
Supervised regression algorithms
Techniques (unit?
No ML algorithm is suitable to solve this problem
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unit=21&lesson=44) Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Visual Guide to Accepted Answers:
Orthogonal Projection Unsupervised clustering algorithms
(unit?
unit=21&lesson=45)
Quiz: Week 1 : Common Data for the questions 3 to 8
Assignment 1 A sugar patient records his daily blood glucose levels in the morning before taking a breakfast. He continued to do that for an year.
(assessment? The table below shows a few samples of the dataset with food items he had on the previous nights.He wanted to predict his daily
name=31) glucose level using this data
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Learning (Tamil) (unit?
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Week 2 ()
Week 3 ()
Week 4 ()
Download Videos () 3) Which of the following machine learning approach is more suitable to satisfy his objective? 2 points
Lecture notes () Classification
Regression
Live Sessions ()
Clustering
Recommendation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 2
Accepted Answers:
Regression
4) The dimension( d in Rd ) of the feature space x is? 1 point
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4
2
3
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
4
5) The dimension( d in Rd ) of the label space y is? 1 point
1
4
5
2
3
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
1
6) Suppose the model is expressed as f (x) = w1 x 1 + w2 x 2 + w3 x 3 + w4 x 4 + w0 . Then, the search for optimal 1 point
weight vector w ∗
∈ R
5
is obtained by which of the following approaches.Assume sum of squares is minimized.
Setting ∇f (w) = 0 and solving for it
Start with an initial guess for w and use gradient descent algorithm iteratively.
Start with an initial guess for w and use gradient ascent algorithm iteratively.
Setting f (w) = 0 and solving for it
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Setting ∇f (w) = 0 and solving for it
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Start with an initial guess for w and use gradient descent algorithm iteratively.
7) Suppose the trained model f (x) is given as 5.8x 1 + 3.4x 2 + 20.9x 3 + 1.2x 4 + 79.8.One fine day, he had three idli, two
dosa, one ice cream and continued working beyond 11 p.m. to submit the Machine Learning assignment.What will be his glucose
level the next day as predicted by the model?
123.7
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 2
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 123.5,123.9
2 points
8) After noting the predicted value by the model, he decided to measure the glucose level using a Glucometer. The meter reads
120 mg/dL, then what is the squared error between the prediction and the actual value?
13.69
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 12.5,14.9
1 point
Common data for the questions 9 and 10
Consider a function f (w) = 0.1w
2
+ w − 1 . Suppose that we use a gradient descent algorithm to find the minima of the function
iteratively.
9) With the initial guess for the w to be w = 10 and taking the step size η = 0.5, the value of w after the third iteration is?
7.5
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No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 5.8,6
3 points
10) How far the current weight value (after 3 iterations) from the minima of the function?
12.5
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
(Type: Range) 9.5,11.5
0 points
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