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Home My courses 2023-MLOS Module 5: Advanced Methods Test 5 on advanced methods

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Question 1

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The Vapnik–Chervonenkis (VC) dimension: (check ALL correct answers)

a. Is equal to 4 in a 2-D space

b. Is the number of points one can separate with a linear classifier in a space 

c. Measures the complexity that can be learned by a classifier 

d. Is equal to 2 in a 2-D space

e. Is the number of points one can visualize on a linear space

f. Is equal to 3 in a 2-D space

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Question 2

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Place the different elements on this image (drag and drop on the blanks)

Support points

Upper margin

Lower margin

Classifier boundary

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Question 3

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When computing a SVM, the slack parameter (check ALL correct answers)

a. Allows to have points on the margin 

b. Should be set to 0

c. Allows to have points inside the margin 

d. Allows to have points outside the margin 

e. Is always greater than 1

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Question 4

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Select the right answers in the sentence below (drop-down menu)

The SVM classifier is based on two main ideas. The first is to have a dimension reduction  where a

linear  classifier could separate the observations. The second idea is to maximize  the

distance between classes using a parametric  margin. Finally, the computation of the optimization

problem can be simplified by the use of a kernel  function.

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Question 5

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The Kernel trick used in SVM is a mathematical simplification that:

a. Simplifies the dimension augmentation algorithm 

b. Simplified computing the width of the soft margin

c. Simplifies the computation of the optimal slack parameter

d. Allows some observations to be inside the soft margin

e. Can be done with several kernels 

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Question 6

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Order the steps used in the K-means algorithm:

Choose K, the number of clusters. Step 2 

Initialize the clusters by choosing K-points Step 1 

Assign each data point to its closest cluster Step 4 

Repeat steps 3-4 Step 5 

Compute the new centroid of each cluster Step 3 

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Question 7

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The silhouette score: (check ALL correct answers)

a. Is best when equal to 0

b. Is either 0 or 1

c. Compares the similarity of each observation in its own cluster with the one from other clusters 

d. Is best when equal to 1 

e. Is only available for observations in 2 dimensions

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Question 8

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This is the image of a final K-means clustering

Select one:
True

False 

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Question 9

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In a K-means clustering: (check ALL correct answers)

a. Each observation is labelled with its category and so this is supervised learning

b. The clusters are independent from the initial choice of centroids 

c. The algorithm is not affected by outliers

d. The algorithm is sensitive to the scale of the data 

e. The number of clusters is not important and will be adjusted by the algorithm 

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Question 10

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In a Neural Network (check ALL correct answers)

a. Layers are composed of different neurons 

b. There are generally several layers 

c. The network can be seen as just a function 

d. The final outcome is a weighted sum of random numbers

e. Each neuron is connected to other neurons in the next layer 

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