Machine Learning

Sheet 1 — ML
First topic questions

1. (a) How would you define Machine Learning?

(b) Can you name four types of problems where it shines?
(c) What is a labeled training set?
(d) What are the two most common supervised tasks?
(e) Can you name four common unsupervised tasks?
(f) What type of Machine Learning algorithm would you use to allow a robot to walk
in various unknown terrains?
(g) What type of algorithm would you use to segment your customers into multiple
groups?
(h) Would you frame the problem of spam detection as a supervised learning problem
or an unsupervised learning problem?
(i) What type of learning algorithm relies on a similarity measure to make predictions?
(j) What is the difference between a model parameter and a learning algorithm’s hy-
perparameter?
(k) What do model-based learning algorithms search for? What is the most common
strategy they use to succeed? How do they make predictions?
(l) Can you name four of the main challenges in Machine Learning?
(m) If your model performs great on the training data but generalizes poorly to new
instances, what is happening? Can you name three possible solutions?

2. For the following Datasets, perform tasks (a) , (b) and (c)

• Iris plants dataset

• Boston house prices dataset
• Diabetes dataset
• Optical recognition of handwritten digits dataset
(a) Loading the dataset.
(b) Summarizing the dataset.
(c) Visualizing the dataset.
(d) Evaluating some algorithms.
(e) Making some prediction

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