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1) Which of the following is/are unsupervised learning problem(s)? 1 point
Sorting a set of news articles into four categories based on their titles
Course Forecasting the stock price of a given company based on historical data
outline Predicting the type of interaction (positive/negative) between a new drug and a set of
human proteins
About Identifying close-knit communities of people in a social network
NPTEL () Learning to generate artificial human faces using the faces from a facial recognition
dataset
How does an
Partially Correct.
NPTEL Score: 0.5
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Learning to generate artificial human faces using the faces from a facial recognition dataset
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2) Which of the following statement(s) about Reinforcement Learning (RL) is/are true? 1 point
Week 1 () While learning a policy, the goal is to maximize the reward for the current time step
During training, the agent is explicitly provided the most optimal action to be taken in
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each state.
Learning (unit? The actions taken by an agent do no affect the environment in any way.
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RL agents used for playing turn based games like chess can be trained by playing the
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agent against itself (self play).
Supervised RL can be used in a autonomous driving system.
Learning (unit?
unit=22&lesso Yes, the answer is correct.
n=24) Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Unsupervised RL agents used for playing turn based games like chess can be trained by playing the agent
Learning (unit? against itself (self play).
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RL can be used in a autonomous driving system.
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3) Which of the following is/are regression tasks(s)? 1 point
Reinforcement
Learning (unit?
Predicting whether an email is spam or not spam
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Predicting the total number of goals a given football team scores in an year
Statistical
Decision Identifying the language used in a given text document
Theory - Yes, the answer is correct.
Regression Score: 1
(unit? Accepted Answers:
unit=22&lesso Predicting the number of new CoVID cases in a given time period
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Statistical
Decision 4) Which of the following is/are classification task(s)? 1 point
Theory -
Classification Predicting whether or not a customer will repay a loan based on their credit history
(unit? Forecasting the weather (temperature, humidity, rainfall etc.) at a given place for the
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following 24 hours
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Predict the price of a house 10 years after it is constructed.
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Predict if a house will be standing 50 years after it is constructed.
Variance (unit?
unit=22&lesso Yes, the answer is correct.
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Accepted Answers:
Week 1 Predicting whether or not a customer will repay a loan based on their credit history
Feedback Predict if a house will be standing 50 years after it is constructed.
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5) Consider the following dataset. Fit a linear regression model of the form 1 point
Machine
Learning (unit? y = β0 + β1 x1 + β2 x2 using the mean-squared error loss. Using this model, the predicted
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Week 3 () 4.05
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No, the answer is incorrect.
Week 6 ()
Score: 0
Week 7 () Accepted Answers:
4.05
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6) Consider the following dataset. Using a k-nearest neighbour (k-NN) regression 1 point
Week 9 () model with k = 3, predict the value of y at (x 1 , x 2 ) = (1.0, 0.5). Use the Euclidean distance to
find the nearest neighbours.
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Score: 0
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Jan 2025 () 7) Consider the following dataset with three classes: 0, 1 and 2. x1 and x2 are the 1 point
independent variables whereas y is the class label. Using a k-NN classifier with k = 5, predict the
class label at the point (x 1 , x 2 ) = (1.0, 1.0). Use the Euclidean distance to find the nearest
neighbours.
0
1
2
Cannot be predicted
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
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8) Consider the following statements regarding linear regression and k-NN regression 1 point
models. Select the true statements.
A linear regressor requires the training data points during inference.
A k-NN regressor requires the training data points during inference.
A k-NN regressor with a higher value of k is less prone to overfitting.
A linear regressor partitions the input space into multiple regions such that the prediction
over a given region is constant.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
A k-NN regressor requires the training data points during inference.
A k-NN regressor with a higher value of k is less prone to overfitting.
9) Which of the following statement(s) regarding bias and variance is/are correct? 1 point
2 2
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Bias = E [(E [f (x)] − f (x)) ] ; Variance = E [(f (x) − f (x)) ]
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Bias = E [f (x)] − f (x); Variance = E [(E [f (x)] − f (x)) ]
Low bias and high variance is a sign of overfitting
Low variance and high bias is a sign of overfitting
Low variance and high bias is a sign of underfitting
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.67
Accepted Answers:
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Bias = E [f (x)] − f (x); Variance = E [(E [f (x)] − f (x)) ]
Low bias and high variance is a sign of overfitting
Low variance and high bias is a sign of underfitting
10) Suppose that we train two kinds of regression models corresponding to the 1 point
following equations.
(i). y = β0 + β1 x1 + β2 x2
(ii). y = β0 + β1 x1 + β2 x2 + β3 x1 x2 + β4 x
2
1
+ β5 x
2
2
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?
On a given training dataset, the mean-squared error of (i) is always less than or equal to
that of (ii).
(i) is likely to have a higher variance than (ii).
(ii) is likely to have a higher variance than (i).
If (i) overfits the data, then (ii) will definitely overfit.
If (ii) underfits the data, then (i) will definitely underfit.
Partially Correct.
Score: 0.33
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(ii) is likely to have a higher variance than (i).
If (i) overfits the data, then (ii) will definitely overfit.
If (ii) underfits the data, then (i) will definitely underfit.
