Code No: E-5209/AICTE

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
B.E. (CSE) VI Semester (AICTE) (Backlog) Examination, February/March 2023
Subject: Machine learning (P.E-IV)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 70
(Missing data, if any may be suitably assumed)
PART – A
Note: Answer all the questions. (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
1. Discuss different important examples of machine learning
2. How is Naïve Bayes algorithm useful for learning and classifying text?
3. What is linear regression? Why is it callendlinear?
4. What are the disadvantages of decision trees?
5. How do you select K for K-Means?
6. What is the basic idea of a Support Vector Machine?
7. Why do you need to use cluster analysis?
8. Is PCA a linear model or not? Why?
9. How do Multi-Layer Perceptions work?
10. List out ensemble methods.

PART – B
Note: Answer any five questions. (5 x 10 = 50 Marks)
11. (a) Discuss supervised and Unsupervised Learning and give two examples.
(b) Explain Bayesian belief network and conditional independence with example.

12. (a) What is a kernel? Explain the Kernel trick.

(b) Which kernels do you know? How to choose a kernel?

13. Explain about classifies (a) Naive Bayes (b) Bias-Variance tradeoff

14. Describe in detail the sparse modeling and estimation.

15. Explain principle component Analysis (PCA).

16. (a) What is a Support Vector Machine. Illustrate in detail about the working of support
vector machine.
(b) Explain in detail about the generative models.

17. Write notes on:

(a) Active learning.
(b) Reinforcement learning.
(c) Matrix completion.
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