MEENAKSHI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
No.12.Vembuli Amman koil Street, West K.K. Nagar,
                                              Chennai – 600 078
                              Department of Artificial intelligence and Data science
                                             Model Examination
Programme & Batch: B.Tech AI&DS                                    Year/Semester: II/IV
Subject Code/Title : AL3451 – Machine Learning                     Date            :
Duration             : 3Hrs                                        Maximum         : 100 marks
Instructions:                                                      Set            :B
  1.   Before attempting any question paper, be sure that you got the correct question paper.
  2.   The missing data, if any, may be assumed suitably
  3.   Use the sketches wherever necessary
Course Outcomes
CO1:    Explain the basic concepts of machine learning.
CO2:    Construct supervised learning models.
CO3:    Construct unsupervised leaming algorithms.
CO4:    Evaluate and compare different models
CO5: Analyze machine learning experiments using cross-validation and statistical tests.
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                                          Question                             Mark         l  (CO)
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                                                                                          (K1-
                                                                                           K6)
                            Part A (10 * 2 = 20 Marks) Answer all Questions
         What do you mean by hypothesis space?
  1                                                                              2        K1     CO1
         Write some examples for machine learning applications.
  2                                                                              2        K1     CO1
         Compare and contrast linear regression and logistic regression.
  3                                                                              2        K1     CO2
         Distinguish between Random Forest and Support Vector Machine.
  4                                                                              2        K2     CO2
         Define voting.
  5                                                                              2        K1     CO3
         Define Expectation Maximization.
  6.                                                                             2        K2     CO3
  7.     List few activation functions.                                          2        K2     CO4
         List the problems associated with Backpropagation Neural Network.
  8.                                                                             2        K1     CO4
         Give the use of Mc Neman’s test
  9.                                                                             2        K2     CO5
 10.     How do you evaluate a Classification Algorithm                          2        K1     CO5
                            Part B (5 * 13 = 65 Marks) Answer All Questions
         Write detailed notes on Inductive Bias and Bias variance trade-off.
 11a)                                                                           13        K1     CO1
                                                      OR
 11b)    Discuss the following                                                  13        K2     CO1
                (i) Vapnik - Chervonenkis (VC) Dimension.(7)
                (ii) Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Learning. (6)
       Write an example and explain the Decision Tree concepts in detail.
12a)                                                                                  13   K2   CO2
                                                       OR
       By the method of least squares find the straight line to the data given
       below.
                               x    5    10       15   20    25                                 CO2
12b)                                                                                  13   K5
                               y    16   19       23   26    30
       Cluster the following eight points with (x, y) representing locations) into
                                                                                                CO3
       three clusters using K-means clustering method. A1(2, 10), A2(2, 5), A3(8,
13a)                                                                                  13   K5
       4), A4(5, 8), A5(7, 5), A6(6, 4), A7(1, 2), A8(4, 9).
                                                       OR
       Compare Bagging, Boosting and Stacking ensemble methods.
13b)                                                                                  13   K2   CO3
     Illustrate the following
14a) (i) Batch Normalization. (7)                                                     13   K1   CO4
     (ii) Dropout.(6)
                                                       OR
       Describe in brief about Multilayer perceptron activation functions.
14b)                                                                                  13   K1   CO4
       Elaborate the t test, McNemar's test and K-fold CV paired t test by giving
15a) your own example.                                                                13   K2   CO5
                                                       OR
       With neat diagram Validation technique.explain about K- fold Cross
15b)                                                                                  13   K1   CO5
                           Part C (1 * 15 = 15 Marks) Answer All Questions
16a)                                                                                 15    K5   CO5
       The grades of a class of 9 students on a midterm report (X) and on the
            x      77     50       71    72       81    94    96    99       67
            y      82     66       78    34       47    85    99    99       68
       final examination (Y) area as follows:
       (i) Estimate the linear regression line.
       (ii) Estimate the final examination grade of a student who received a
        grade of 85 on the midterm report.
                                                     OR
         Consider the following list that contains name, age, gender and class of
        sports. In the Gender field males are denoted by the numeric value 0 and
        females by 1. Using the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm, find class of
        sports for a girl whose name is Angelina, her k factor is 3, and her age is
         Ajay           32             0               Football
         Mark           40             0               Neither
         Sara           16             1               Cricket
 16b)    Zaira          34             1               Cricket                        15     K5   CO1
         Sachin         55             0               Neither
         Rahul          40             0               Cricket
         Pooja          20             1               Neither
         Smith          15             0               Cricket
         Laxmi          55             1               Football
         Michael        15             0               Football
 Knowledge Level as per Bloom Taxonomy
 K1- Remember; K2- Understand; K3- Apply; K4- Analyze; K5- Evaluate; K6- Create
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