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What is the goal of feature extraction in data preprocessing?

  • To transform categorical features into numerical features.
  • To select the most relevant features for the model.
  • To create new features based on existing ones.
  • To handle missing values in the dataset.
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What is the main goal of exploratory data analysis (EDA)?

  • Building predictive models.
  • Cleaning and preprocessing data.
  • Making inferences about a population.
  • Summarizing and visualizing data to uncover insights.
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What is the primary goal of a content-based recommendation system?

  • To suggest items based on user preferences.
  • To analyze social connections and recommend items.
  • To identify the most popular items and recommend them.
  • To suggest items similar to those a user has liked in the past.
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In the context of decision trees, what is "entropy" used for?

  • To measure the number of leaves in the tree.
  • To calculate the impurity of a node's class distribution.
  • To determine the maximum depth of the tree.
  • To estimate the computational complexity of tree construction.
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What is an ROC curve used for in machine learning?

  • To visualize the distribution of a dataset.
  • To compare the performance of different models.
  • To evaluate the convergence of gradient descent.
  • To measure the amount of overfitting in a model.
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What is the goal of hyperparameter tuning in machine learning?

  • To increase the complexity of the model.
  • To reduce the number of features in the dataset.
  • To optimize the model's performance by selecting the best hyperparameters.
  • To eliminate noise from the data.
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In a confusion matrix, which term represents the number of true positive predictions?

  • True Positive (TP)
  • False Positive (FP)
  • True Negative (TN)
  • False Negative (FN)
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What is the "curse of dimensionality" in machine learning?

  • The difficulty of choosing the right hyperparameters for a model.
  • The exponential increase in computational complexity as the number of features increases.
  • The tendency of models to overfit when trained on high-dimensional data.
  • The challenge of handling imbalanced datasets.
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What is the purpose of regularization in machine learning algorithms?

  • To make the model more complex.
  • To make the model less interpretable.
  • To penalize large coefficient values and prevent overfitting.
  • To increase the training accuracy of the model.
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What is the purpose of a learning curve in machine learning?

  • To visualize the performance of a model on a validation set.
  • To plot the relationship between input features and target values.
  • To analyze the distribution of the dataset.
  • To show how a model's performance changes with the size of the training dataset.
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What is the purpose of regularization in machine learning algorithms?

  • To make the model more complex.
  • To make the model less interpretable.
  • To penalize large coefficient values and prevent overfitting.
  • To increase the training accuracy of the model.
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What is the primary goal of a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm?

  • To minimize the distance between data points and the decision boundary.
  • To find the best-fit line through the data points.
  • To maximize the margin between different classes in the data.
  • To reduce the variance of the model.
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Which algorithm is used to update the weights of a neural network during the training process?

  • Gradient Descent
  • K-Means Clustering
  • Random Forest
  • Naive Bayes
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What is the main goal of exploratory data analysis (EDA)?

  • Building predictive models.
  • Cleaning and preprocessing data.
  • Making inferences about a population.
  • Summarizing and visualizing data to uncover insights.
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Which algorithm is used to update the weights of a neural network during the training process?

  • Gradient Descent
  • K-Means Clustering
  • Random Forest
  • Naive Bayes
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What is the purpose of cross-validation in machine learning?

  • To split the dataset into training and testing sets.
  • To assess the performance of a model on unseen data.
  • To reduce overfitting by penalizing complex models.
  • To calculate the gradient descent in optimization algorithms.
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Which technique is used to reduce the impact of outliers in a dataset?

  • Normalization
  • Feature Scaling
  • Outlier Detection
  • Data Imputation
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Which algorithm is used to update the weights of a neural network during the training process?

  • Gradient Descent
  • K-Means Clustering
  • Random Forest
  • Naive Bayes
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In the context of deep learning, what is a "dropout" layer used for?

  • Adding noise to the input data.
  • Reducing the learning rate during training.
  • Regularizing the network to prevent overfitting.
  • Adjusting the weights of the neural network based on errors.
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What is the main difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?

  • Supervised learning requires labeled data, while unsupervised learning does not.
  • Unsupervised learning requires labeled data, while supervised learning does not.
  • Supervised learning uses more complex algorithms than unsupervised learning.
  • Unsupervised learning is only used for classification tasks.
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What is the purpose of the activation function in a neural network?

  • To determine the learning rate of the network.
  • To transform the input data into a different representation.
  • To control the number of layers in the network.
  • To introduce non-linearity to the model.
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In the context of clustering, what is the purpose of the "elbow method"?

  • To calculate the distance between data points.
  • To determine the optimal number of clusters.
  • To evaluate the performance of a clustering algorithm.
  • To identify outliers in the dataset.
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Which algorithm is often used for natural language processing tasks such as language translation?

  • Random Forest
  • Support Vector Machine (SVM)
  • Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
  • K-Means Clustering
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Which technique is used to handle class imbalance in a classification problem?

  • Regularization
  • Feature Scaling
  • Oversampling the minority class
  • Data Imputation
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What is the purpose of a learning curve in machine learning?

  • To visualize the performance of a model on a validation set.
  • To plot the relationship between input features and target values.
  • To analyze the distribution of the dataset.
  • To show how a model's performance changes with the size of the training dataset.
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What is the purpose of cross-validation in machine learning?

  • To split the dataset into training and testing sets.
  • To assess the performance of a model on unseen data.
  • To reduce overfitting by penalizing complex models.
  • To calculate the gradient descent in optimization algorithms.
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Which technique is used to reduce the complexity and size of a model while maintaining its predictive power?

  • Feature Engineering
  • Regularization
  • Clustering
  • Dimensionality Reduction
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What is the purpose of regularization in machine learning algorithms?

  • To make the model more complex.
  • To make the model less interpretable.
  • To penalize large coefficient values and prevent overfitting.
  • To increase the training accuracy of the model.
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What is the primary purpose of a hash function in data processing?

  • To sort data in ascending order.
  • To transform data into a unique fixed-size value.
  • To remove duplicates from a dataset.
  • To compute the mean value of a set of numbers.
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What is the main drawback of the K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm?

  • It is computationally expensive during training.
  • It cannot handle categorical data.
  • It requires a labeled dataset for training.
  • It is sensitive to the choice of the number of neighbors (k).
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