Consider the following code block: Figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

Given below code to load a huge file name as filename.csv and this file is not loading at once in the system which parameter should be added to pd.read_csv to load this file ? import pandas as pd from sklearn.linear_model import SGDRegressor for train_df in pd.read_csv("filename.csv", =1024): X = train_df.iloc[:, :-1] y = train_df.iloc[:, -1] model = SGDRegressor() model.partial_fit( X,y)

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

What will the output for below code Figure from the original question paper

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

Consider the following code block: from sklearn.datasets import make_regression X, y = make_regression(n_samples = 1000, n_features = 5, n_informative = 2, random_state=42) from sklearn.linear_model import SGDRegressor sgd1 = SGDRegressor(alpha=1e-3, random_state=42, penalty='_', ) sgd1.fit(X, y) print(sgd1.coef_) sgd2 = SGDRegressor(alpha=1e-3, random_state=42, penalty='') sgd2.fit(X, y) print(sgd2.coef_) What are the most suitable values to be filled in the two blank spaces (in that order) in the code to expect the following output?: [ 1.68059576e+01, 1.89752021e+01, 7.49212536e-04, -6.53455275e-04, 3.01471918e-04] [16.82258106, 18.99248887, 0., 0., 0.]

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

The following code produces an output of 0.9125. How is the output expected to change if we increase the max_depth value?: from sklearn.datasets import load_wine from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X,y = load_wine(as_frame = True, return_X_y = True) X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.10, random_state = 12) clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth = 2, min_samples_split = 2, min_samples_leaf=3, random_state = 81) clf.fit(X_train, y_train) print(clf.score(X_train, y_train))

(A) Output score is likely to increase.

(B) Output score is likely to decrease.

(C) Output score may increase or decrease.

(D) Output score will remain the same.

Consider two classifiers as shown in the following block of code: from sklearn.datasets import load_wine from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X,y = load_wine(as_frame = True, return_X_y = True) X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size = 0.2, random_state = 1) clf1 = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 7, min_samples_leaf = 4, random_state = 5) clf1.fit(X_train, y_train) clf2 = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 4, min_samples_leaf = 2, random_state = 5) clf2.fit(X_train, y_train) What can we say about the depths of the classifiers clf1 and clf2?

(B) depth(clf1) ≤ depth(clf2)

(A) depth(clf1) ≥ depth(clf2)

Consider the following code: Figure from the original question paper

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

Consider the following code block with respect to some dataset contained in X and y. from sklearn.linear_model import linear_regression from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score from sklearn.model_selection import ShuffleSplit lin_reg = linear_regression() shuffle_split = ShuffleSplit(n_splits=5, test_size=0.2, random_state=42) score = cross_val_score(lin_reg, X, y, cv=shuffle_split, scoring='-----------------------') Which of the following may be appropriate to be filled in the blank space?

(A) Option figure from the original question paper

(D) Option figure from the original question paper

(B) Option figure from the original question paper

(C) Option figure from the original question paper

Figure from the original question paper

(A) Data is continuously being generated

(B) Data is generated every month

(C) Whole data is generated and its in a huge file size

Consider the following block of code: from sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split X,y = load_breast_cancer(as_frame = True, return_X_y = True) X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X,y, test_size = 0.2, random_state = 1) clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 6, min_samples_leaf = 4, random_state = 5) clf.fit(X_train, y_train) print(clf.score(X_test, y_test)) In which of the following scenarios, the split will be done at node N?

(A) Number of samples at node N = 15. If it is split, it will result in 9 nodes in the left child and 6 nodes in the right child.

(C) Number of samples at node N = 7. If it is split, it will result in 4 nodes in the left child and 3 nodes in the right child.

(B) Number of samples at node N = 5. If it is split, it will result in 4 nodes in the left child and 2 nodes in the right child.

(D) Number of samples at node N = 12. If it is split, it will result in 3 nodes in the left child and 9 nodes in the right child.

The following line of code create a neural network (assume necessary imports) Figure from the original question paper

(C) The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 3 neurons in the second hidden layer

(D) The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 5 neurons in the first hidden layer

(A) The neural network contains 3 hidden layers with 5 neurons in each hidden layer

(B) The neural network contains 5 hidden layers with 3 neurons in each hidden layer

(E) None of the given options are correct

January 2023 term · Machine Learning Practice · BSCS2008

MLP End Term: 30 April 2023, Set QPD1-S1 (January 2023 term)

The IIT Madras BS Machine Learning Practice (MLP) End Term paper sat on 30 Apr 2023, in the January 2023 term, set QPD1-S1: 36 questions for 100 marks in 180 minutes. Every question is below with its answer. Take it as a timed mock test to be marked, or read it through first.

Questions: 36
Marks: 100
Duration: 180 min
MCQ: 19
MSQ: 15
Numerical: 2

Take as mock test Practise with answers

Updated 25 Sept 2026

Official paper: IIT M DIPLOMA ET1 EXAM QPD1 S2 30 Apr 2023 · No negative marking.

Question 1

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To load datasets from openml.org, which method will be appropriate?

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Question 2

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Why is data preprocessing necessary?

A
Some columns have values only between 0 and 1.
B
A column has same entities with different names, e.g. ”India”, ”In”, ”IN”.
C
The data has only numbers in all the columns.

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B
A column has same entities with different names, e.g. ”India”, ”In”, ”IN”.

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Consider the following code block:

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Question 4

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Which of the following sklearn classes will be the most suitable for examining the effect of the number of samples on the training and testing errors?

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Question 5

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Which of the following is not a hyper parameter?

A
degree in Polynomial Regression
B
k in KNN
C
intercept value in linear regression
D
depth of tree in a decision tree

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C
intercept value in linear regression

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Question 6

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Consider following two statements:
Statement 1: The multinomial Naive Bayes classifier is suitable for classification with discrete features
Statement 2: Two dependent features impact GaussianNB performance because internally it calculates the conditional probability.

A
Both statements are True
B
Only statement 1 is True
C
Only statement 2 is True
D
Both statements are False

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A
Both statements are True

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Question 7

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Given below code to load a huge file name as filename.csv and this file is not loading at once in the system which parameter should be added to pd.read_csv to load this file ?

python

1import pandas as pd
2from sklearn.linear_model import SGDRegressor
3for train_df in pd.read_csv("filename.csv", __________=1024):
4    X = train_df.iloc[:, :-1]
5    y = train_df.iloc[:, -1]
6    model = SGDRegressor()
7    model.partial_fit( X,y)

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Question 8

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Which of the following is true for a hard margin SVM algorithm ?

A
It does not create hyperplanes as decision boundary
B
It can only work for linearly separable data
C
It is robust to outliers
D
It is mostly used for clustering the data

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B
It can only work for linearly separable data

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Question 9

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What will the output for below code

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Question 10

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Which of the following APIs can be used to construct an ML pipeline that has numerical and categorical features both? Choose the most suitable answer.

A
Pipeline alone
B
ColumnTransformer with pipeline
C
FeatureUnion with ColumnTransformer and/or pipeline
D
All of these

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C
FeatureUnion with ColumnTransformer and/or pipeline

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Question 11

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Consider the following preprocessing steps:
1. Read the data from a file (named ‘dataset.csv’). It has 4 columns, with following column names ‘city’, ‘title’, ‘expert_rating’ and ‘user_rating’ in this order.
2. Drop rows with missing values.
3. Apply ‘CountVectorizer’ on ‘title’.
4. Apply one hot encoding to ‘city’.
5. Drop the remaining columns.
6. Fit and transform the data and print it.
Which of the following code snippets correctly accomplishes the above task? Assume necessary imports.

A
—
B
C
D
E
F

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A
—

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Question 12

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Consider the following code block:

python

1from sklearn.datasets import make_regression
2X, y = make_regression(n_samples = 1000,
3                       n_features = 5,
4                       n_informative = 2,
5                       random_state=42)
6
7from sklearn.linear_model import SGDRegressor
8sgd1 = SGDRegressor(alpha=1e-3,
9                    random_state=42,
10                    penalty='_________________', )
11sgd1.fit(X, y)
12print(sgd1.coef_)
13
14sgd2 = SGDRegressor(alpha=1e-3,
15                    random_state=42,
16                    penalty='__________________')
17sgd2.fit(X, y)
18print(sgd2.coef_)

What are the most suitable values to be filled in the two blank spaces (in that order) in the code to expect the following output?:

[ 1.68059576e+01, 1.89752021e+01, 7.49212536e-04, -6.53455275e-04, 3.01471918e-04]

[16.82258106, 18.99248887, 0., 0., 0.]

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Question 13

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What will be the output of the following code?:

A
(10, 2)
B
(10, 4)
C
(10, 5)
D
(10, 6)

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B
(10, 4)

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Question 14

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Consider following model:

python

1estimator = SGDClassifier(loss='log',
2                          penalty='l2',
3                          max_iter=1,
4                          warm_start=True,
5                          eta0=0.01,
6                          alpha=0,
7                          learning_rate='constant',
8                          random_state=1729)
9pipe_sgd= make_pipeline(MinMaxScaler(), estimator)

Which of the following code snippets will plot the learning curve for training for 100 epochs? Assume necessary imports and the variable names suggest the data they hold/point to.

A
B
C
D
E
None of these

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Question 15

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If we need quick results during the testing phase, then which classification techniques may not be appropriate?

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Question 16

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Following is the code to tune the degree parameter of a polynomial regression model.

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Question 17

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The following code produces an output of 0.9125. How is the output expected to change if we increase the max_depth value?:

python

1from sklearn.datasets import load_wine
2from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
3from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
4X,y = load_wine(as_frame = True, return_X_y = True)
5
6X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X,
7                                                 y,
8                                                 test_size = 0.10,
9                                                 random_state = 12)
10
11clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth = 2,
12                             min_samples_split = 2,
13                             min_samples_leaf=3,
14                             random_state = 81)
15
16clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
17print(clf.score(X_train, y_train))

A
Output score is likely to increase.
B
Output score is likely to decrease.
C
Output score may increase or decrease.
D
Output score will remain the same.

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A
Output score is likely to increase.

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Question 18

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Consider the following code. How many DecisionTreeClassifier models will be trained internally?

A
20
B
75
C
8
D
15
E
40

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B
75

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Question 19

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Consider two classifiers as shown in the following block of code:

python

1from sklearn.datasets import load_wine
2from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
3from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
4X,y = load_wine(as_frame = True,
5                           return_X_y = True)
6X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X, y,
7                                               test_size = 0.2,
8                                               random_state = 1)
9clf1 = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 7,
10                                min_samples_leaf = 4,
11                                random_state = 5)
12clf1.fit(X_train, y_train)
13
14clf2 = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 4,
15                                min_samples_leaf = 2,
16                                random_state = 5)
17clf2.fit(X_train, y_train)

What can we say about the depths of the classifiers clf1 and clf2?

A
depth(clf1) ≥ depth(clf2)
B
depth(clf1) ≤ depth(clf2)
C
depth(clf1) = depth(clf2)
D
Insufficient Information

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B
depth(clf1) ≤ depth(clf2)

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Consider the following code:

Select all that apply.

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Consider the following code block with respect to some dataset contained in X and y.

python

1from sklearn.linear_model import linear_regression
2from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
3from sklearn.model_selection import ShuffleSplit
4lin_reg = linear_regression()
5shuffle_split = ShuffleSplit(n_splits=5, test_size=0.2, random_state=42)
6score = cross_val_score(lin_reg, X, y, cv=shuffle_split,
7scoring='-----------------------')

Which of the following may be appropriate to be filled in the blank space?

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Which of the following models are inherently multiclass models?

Select all that apply.

A
KNN
B
Decision trees
C
Perceptron
D
Logistic regression

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A
KNN
B
Decision trees

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Question 23

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Which of the following is/are correct regarding Radius Neighbors Classifier

Select all that apply.

A
Only 5 neighbours in the range of some radius are used to compute the label of a sample.
B
All the neighbours in the range of some radius are used to compute the label of a sample.
C
It is sensitive to outliers.
D
It is not sensitive to outliers.

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B
All the neighbours in the range of some radius are used to compute the label of a sample.
D
It is not sensitive to outliers.

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Question 24

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Which options are correct for large datasets that don’t fit into the system’s main memory?

Select all that apply.

A
No data preprocessing can be performed.
B
One hot encoding can not be applied directly or by iteratively learning one hot encoder’s parameters and then applying one hot encoding in batches.
C
Standard scaling parameters can be learnt iteratively then standard scaling can be applied in batches.
D
One hot encoding and standard scaling can be applied directly or iteratively.

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B
One hot encoding can not be applied directly or by iteratively learning one hot encoder’s parameters and then applying one hot encoding in batches.
C
Standard scaling parameters can be learnt iteratively then standard scaling can be applied in batches.

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Question 25

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Which of the following class(es) is/are used to instantiate a neural network in Sklearn.

Select all that apply.

A
SGDClassifier()
B
MLPClassifier()
C
NNClassifier()
D
MLPRegressor()

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B
MLPClassifier()
D
MLPRegressor()

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Which of the following is correct?

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Which of the following processes should be done if we get an imbalanced dataset? Data is imbalanced when the target class has an uneven distribution of label values.

Select all that apply.

A
Remove all the minority classes
B
Remove all the majority classes
C
Up-sample the minority classes
D
down-sample the majority classes

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C
Up-sample the minority classes
D
down-sample the majority classes

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Question 28

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Which of the following is true about Naive Bayes algorithm ?

Select all that apply.

A
It is primarily used for regression problems
B
It is primarily used for classification problems
C
Hyperparameter tuning is required
D
Hyperparameter tuning is not required

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B
It is primarily used for classification problems
D
Hyperparameter tuning is not required

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Question 29

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Select all that apply.

A
Data is continuously being generated
B
Data is generated every month
C
Whole data is generated and its in a huge file size
D
For very small dataset

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A
Data is continuously being generated
B
Data is generated every month
C
Whole data is generated and its in a huge file size

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Question 30

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Which options are correct for Support Vectors in SVM ?

Select all that apply.

A
Support vectors are the data points nearest to the hyperplane
B
Using these support vectors, we maximize the margin of the classifier.
C
Using these support vectors, we minimize the margin of the classifier.
D
None of these

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A
Support vectors are the data points nearest to the hyperplane
B
Using these support vectors, we maximize the margin of the classifier.

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Question 31

+4 marksOne or more correct options

Consider the following block of code:

python

1from sklearn.datasets import load_breast_cancer
2from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
3from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
4X,y = load_breast_cancer(as_frame = True,
5                           return_X_y = True)
6X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X,y,
7                                               test_size = 0.2,
8                                               random_state = 1)
9 clf = DecisionTreeClassifier(min_samples_split = 6,
10                                min_samples_leaf = 4,
11                                random_state = 5)
12 clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
13 print(clf.score(X_test, y_test))

In which of the following scenarios, the split will be done at node N?

Select all that apply.

A
Number of samples at node N = 15. If it is split, it will result in 9 nodes in the left child and 6 nodes in the right child.
B
Number of samples at node N = 5. If it is split, it will result in 4 nodes in the left child and 2 nodes in the right child.
C
Number of samples at node N = 7. If it is split, it will result in 4 nodes in the left child and 3 nodes in the right child.
D
Number of samples at node N = 12. If it is split, it will result in 3 nodes in the left child and 9 nodes in the right child.

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A
Number of samples at node N = 15. If it is split, it will result in 9 nodes in the left child and 6 nodes in the right child.
C
Number of samples at node N = 7. If it is split, it will result in 4 nodes in the left child and 3 nodes in the right child.

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Question 32

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Suppose we want to choose the best value of k in k−means clustering algorithm using Silhouette Coefficient values. Which of the following are required to compute the coefficient value? Note: Labels (cluster number) of the samples are random. There is no functional relationship between a sample and its label

Select all that apply.

A
All the samples in the dataset
B
A few randomly selected samples in the dataset
C
The number of clusters k, such that k ≥ 2
D
The number of clusters k, such that k ≥ 1

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A
All the samples in the dataset
C
The number of clusters k, such that k ≥ 2

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Question 33

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Which of the following approach(es) is(are) helpful to find a good value for k in k−means clustering algorithm?

Select all that apply.

A
Plotting an Elbow curve
B
Using GridSearchCV or RandomizedSearchCV for various values of k
C
Plotting Silhouette coefficient for various values of k
D
Using k-fold cross validation

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A
Plotting an Elbow curve
C
Plotting Silhouette coefficient for various values of k

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Question 34

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The following line of code create a neural network (assume necessary imports)

Select all that apply.

A
The neural network contains 3 hidden layers with 5 neurons in each hidden layer
B
The neural network contains 5 hidden layers with 3 neurons in each hidden layer
C
The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 3 neurons in the second hidden layer
D
The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 5 neurons in the first hidden layer
E
None of the given options are correct

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C
The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 3 neurons in the second hidden layer
D
The neural network contains 2 hidden layers with 5 neurons in the first hidden layer

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Question 35

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What will be the output of the following code?:

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Correct answer: 0.9 (accepted within ±0.05)

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Question 36

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The plot below shows a distribution of 200 samples with 2 features in Euclidean space. Suppose we use the K-means clustering algorithm to group these data points into individual clusters. Enter the value of K for which the inertia (Sum Square Error) will be zero. If you conclude, there is no such value for K, then enter -1.

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Correct answer: 200

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