INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING Week 12

Session: JAN-APR 2023

Course Name: Introduction to Machine Learning

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q1. Which of the following measure best analyze the performance of a classifier?
a. Precision
b. Recall
c. Accuracy
d. Time complexity
e. Depends on the application

Answer: e. Depends on the application

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Q2. As discussed in the lecture, most of the classifiers minimize the empirical risk. Which among the following is an exceptional case?
a. Perceptron learning algorithm
b. Artificial Neural Network
c. Support Vector Machines
d. both (a) and (b)
e. None of the above

Answer: c. Support Vector Machines

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q3. What do you expect to happen to the variance component of the generalisation error of your model as the size of the training data set increases?
a. Increase in variance
b. Decrease in variance
c. No change in variance error

Answer: b. Decrease in variance

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Q4. After completing Introduction to Machine Learning on NPTEL, you have landed a job as a Data Scientist at YumEll Solutions Inc. Your first assignment as a trainee is to learn a classifier given some data and present insights on it to your manager, who apparently doesn’t seem to have any knowledge on Machine Learning. Which of the following classification models would you pick to best explain the nature of the data and the underlying distribution to your manager?
a. Linear Models
b. Support Vector Machines
c. Decision Trees
d. Artificial Neural Networks

Answer: c. Decision Trees

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q5. What happens when your model complexity (such as interaction terms in linear regression, order of polynomial in SVM, etc.) increases?
a. Model Bias increases
b. Model Bias decreases
c. Variance of the model increases
d. Variance of the model decreases

Answer: b, c

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q6. Suppose we want an RL agent to learn to play the game of golf. For training purposes, we make use of a golf simulator program. Assume that the original reward distribution gives a reward of +10 when the golf ball is hit into the hole and -1 for all other transitions. To aid the agent’s learning process, we propose to give an additional reward of +3 whenever the ball is within a 1 metre radius of the hole. Is this additional reward a good idea or not? Why?
a. Yes. The additional reward will help speed-up learning.
b. Yes. Getting the ball to within a metre of the hole is like a sub-goal and hence, should be rewarded.
c. No. The additional reward may actually hinder learning.
d. No. It violates the idea that a goal must be outside the agent’s direct control.

Answer: c. No. The additional reward may actually hinder learning.

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q7. You want to toss a fair coin a number of times and obtain the probability of getting heads by taking a simple average. What is the estimated number of times you’ll have to toss the coin to make sure that your estimated probability is within 10% of the actual probability, at least 90% of the time?
a. 400*ln(20)
b. 800ln(20)
c. 200*ln(20)

Answer: c. 200*ln(20)

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q8. A new phone, E-Corp X1 has been announced and it is what you’ve been waiting for, all along. You decide to read the reviews before buying it. From past experiences, you’ve figured out that good reviews mean that the product is good 90% of the time and bad reviews mean that it is bad 70% of the time. Upon glancing through the reviews section, you find out that the X1 has been reviewed 1269 times and only 127 of them were bad reviews. What is the probability that, if you order the X1, it is a bad phone?
a. 0.1362
b. 0.160
c. 0.840
d. 0.773

Answer: b. 0.160

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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Q9. You face a particularly challenging RL problem, where the reward distribution keeps changing with time. In order to gain maximum reward in this scenario, does it make sense to stop exploration or continue exploration?
a. Stop exploration
b. Continue exploration

Answer: b. Continue exploration

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These are Introduction to Machine Learning Week 12 Assignment 12 Answers

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