Top 35 Machine Learning Interview

Questions 2023-24

Q1. Explain the difference between regression and

classification.

Q2. Explain how linear regression works.

Q3. Explain the assumptions of Linear Regression.

Q4. How to evaluate regression models?

Q5. What is R-squared?

Q6. Explain Benefits of cross validation?

Q7. What is overfitting?

Q8. What are different ways to fix overfitting?

Q9. How to handle imbalanced data in a dataset?

Q10. What to do if your data is skewed?

Q11. What is difference between lasso and ridge regression?

Q12. What if your data has outliers, how to identify and

different ways to fix?

Q13. Difference between precision and recall?

Q14. What is a confusion matrix?

Q15. What is AUC?

Q16. What is cross entropy?

Q17. What is bias variance trade-off?

Q18. What is Information gain?

Q19. Explain Random Forest.

Q20. What is clustering?

Q21. How to evaluate classification models?

Q22. What is hypothesis testing?

Q23. What is null hypothesis?

Q24. Explain Central Limit Theorem.

Q25. How to find the optimal value of K in k-means

clustering?

Q26. Explain the steps involved in PCA.

Q27. What is correlation?

Q28. What are the differences between Bagging and

Boosting?

Q29. Explain Benefits of cross validation?

Q30. What is the difference between Grid Search and

Randomized Search CV?
Q31. How does time series work? Explain how to approach a
time series problem step by step.

Q32. How do you treat seasonality in time series?

Q33. What to do if your time series data is not stationary?

Q34. What is the difference between ACF and PACF?

Q35. Explain Gradient Descent.