Important questions to ace your machine learning interview with an approach to answer:
1. Machine Learning Project Lifecycle:
- Define the problem
- Gather and preprocess data
- Choose a model and train it
- Evaluate model performance
- Tune and optimize the model
- Deploy and maintain the model
2. Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning:
- Supervised Learning: Uses labeled data for training (e.g., predicting house prices from features).
- Unsupervised Learning: Uses unlabeled data to find patterns or groupings (e.g., clustering customer segments).
3. Evaluation Metrics for Regression:
- Mean Absolute Error (MAE)
- Mean Squared Error (MSE)
- Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)
- R-squared (coefficient of determination)
4. Overfitting and Prevention:
- Overfitting: Model learns the noise instead of the underlying pattern.
- Prevention: Use simpler models, cross-validation, regularization.
5. Bias-Variance Tradeoff:
- Balancing error due to bias (underfitting) and variance (overfitting) to find an optimal model complexity.
6. Cross-Validation:
- Technique to assess model performance by splitting data into multiple subsets for training and validation.
7. Feature Selection Techniques:
- Filter methods (e.g., correlation analysis)
- Wrapper methods (e.g., recursive feature elimination)
- Embedded methods (e.g., Lasso regularization)
8. Assumptions of Linear Regression:
- Linearity
- Independence of errors
- Homoscedasticity (constant variance)
- No multicollinearity
9. Regularization in Linear Models:
- Adds a penalty term to the loss function to prevent overfitting by shrinking coefficients.
10. Classification vs Regression:
- Classification: Predicts a categorical outcome (e.g., class labels).
- Regression: Predicts a continuous numerical outcome (e.g., house price).
11. Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms:
- Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
- t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)
12. Decision Tree:
- Tree-like model where internal nodes represent features, branches represent decisions, and leaf nodes represent outcomes.
13. Ensemble Methods:
- Combine predictions from multiple models to improve accuracy (e.g., Random Forest, Gradient Boosting).
14. Handling Missing or Corrupted Data:
- Imputation (e.g., mean substitution)
- Removing rows or columns with missing data
- Using algorithms robust to missing values
15. Kernels in Support Vector Machines (SVM):
- Linear kernel
- Polynomial kernel
- Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel
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