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1. Which algorithm is used for sequence generation tasks in natural language processing?

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

Support Vector Machines (SVM)

Gradient boosting

K-means clustering

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2. What is the main advantage of using gradient boosting over random forest?

Better handling of missing data

Ability to handle large datasets

Faster training time

Improved predictive accuracy

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3. Which method is used for time series decomposition?

Moving Average (MA)

Exponential Smoothing

Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)

Seasonal Decomposition of Time Series (STL)

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4. What is the purpose of dropout regularization in neural networks?

To speed up training process

To reduce model complexity

To avoid overfitting

To increase model variance

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5. Which algorithm is used for feature extraction in deep learning?

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)

Autoencoders

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)

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6. Which evaluation metric is suitable for imbalanced classification problems?

Accuracy

Precision

F1-score

Mean Squared Error (MSE)

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7. What is the main advantage of using a recurrent neural network (RNN) over a feedforward neural network?

Ability to handle sequential data

Faster training time

Lower computational cost

Better regularization

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8. Which method is used for hyperparameter tuning?

Grid Search

Random Search

Bayesian Optimization

All

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9. What is the purpose of the Leaky ReLU activation function?

To introduce non-linearity

To prevent vanishing gradients

To reduce overfitting

To avoid dead neurons

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10. Which algorithm is used for dimensionality reduction in large datasets?

PCA (Principal Component Analysis)

t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding)

UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection)

LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis)

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11. What is the purpose of batch normalization in neural networks?

To speed up training process

To reduce overfitting

To normalize input data

To improve model interpretability

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12. Which algorithm is used for anomaly detection?

K-means clustering

Isolation Forest

Random forest

AdaBoost

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13. What is the purpose of the elbow method in K-means clustering?

To determine the optimal number of clusters

To calculate the Euclidean distance between data points

To minimize within-cluster variance

To maximize between-cluster variance

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14. Which technique is used for feature selection?

Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE)

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

All

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15. What is the purpose of cross-entropy loss function?

To measure the dissimilarity between two probability distributions

To measure the accuracy of a classification model

To reduce overfitting

To regularize the model

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16. Which algorithm is used for sentiment analysis?

Logistic regression

Decision trees

Support Vector Machines (SVM)

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)

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17. What is the main disadvantage of using k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm?

It is computationally expensive

It requires feature scaling

It cannot handle categorical data

It is sensitive to outliers

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18. What is the purpose of L1 regularization?

To encourage sparsity in feature selection

To reduce overfitting

To increase model complexity

To decrease model variance

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19. Which algorithm is used for natural language processing (NLP) tasks?

Decision trees

Naive Bayes

K-means clustering

Random forest

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20. Which method is used for outlier detection?

Z-score

K-means clustering

Random forest

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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21. Which algorithm is used for collaborative filtering?

K-means clustering

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

Random forest

Gradient boosting

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22. What is the purpose of a confusion matrix?

To evaluate the performance of a classification model

To visualize the distribution of data

To measure correlation between variables

To evaluate feature importance

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23. What is the purpose of One-Hot Encoding?

To convert categorical variables into numerical format

To reduce the dimensionality of data

To scale features between 0 and 1

To standardize features

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24. Which statistical test is used for comparing means of two independent groups?

ANOVA (Analysis of Variance)

t-test

Chi-square test

Pearson correlation

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25. Which algorithm is used for association rule mining?

Apriori algorithm

K-means clustering

Random forest

Support Vector Machines (SVM)

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26. What does the term "p-value" represent in hypothesis testing?

The probability of making a Type I error

The probability of making a Type II error

The significance level of the test

The power of the test

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27. What is the main advantage of using ensemble methods?

They are simple and easy to interpret

They reduce overfitting

They work well with small datasets

They are resistant to outliers

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28. What is the purpose of feature engineering?

To remove irrelevant features

To select important features

To create new features

To standardize features

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29. Which technique is used for handling missing data?

Mean imputation

Median imputation

Mode imputation

All

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30. Which of the following is NOT a classification algorithm?

Logistic regression

Gradient boosting

Naive Bayes

K-means clustering

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31. What is the purpose of feature scaling?

To normalize the data distribution

To increase model complexity

To decrease computational time

To increase bias in the model

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32. Which algorithm is used for time series forecasting?

K-means clustering

Random forest

ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average)

K-nearest neighbors (KNN)

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33. What is the purpose of cross-validation in machine learning?

To tune hyperparameters

To train models on large datasets

To avoid overfitting

To increase model complexity

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34. Which evaluation metric is suitable for regression tasks?

Accuracy

F1-score

Mean Absolute Error (MAE)

Precision

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35. Which algorithm is used for imbalanced classification problems?

Decision trees

K-means clustering

SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique)

Apriori algorithm

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36. What does AUC-ROC measure in classification models?

Model complexity

Model performance

Area under the precision-recall curve

Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve

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37. Which of the following is NOT a dimensionality reduction technique?

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE)

K-nearest neighbors (KNN)

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38. What is the purpose of regularization in machine learning?

To increase model complexity

To reduce overfitting

To decrease bias

To decrease variance

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39. What is the purpose of exploratory data analysis (EDA)?

To summarize data and find patterns

To test hypotheses

To build predictive models

To visualize data for presentations

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40. Which of the following is a supervised learning algorithm?

K-means clustering

Decision trees

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Apriori algorithm

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