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Interview questions on Support Vector Machines.

39 questions

Maximal Margin Classifier

Q1. Is support vector machine(SVM) a generalization of maximal margin classifier?

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Q3. Write generic expression of a p-dimensional hyperplane?

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Q4. How to determine whether a point or a vector lies on a hyperplane?

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Q5. How does maximal margin classifier work?

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Q6. What is the main limitation of maximal margin classifier?

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Q7. How can we overcome limitation of maximal margin classifier?

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Maximal Margin Classifier

Q8. How can we overcome limitation of maximal margin classifier? (Part 2)

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Maximal Margin Classifier

Q9. What is difference between Maximal margin classifier(MMC) and Support vector classifier(SVC)?

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Q10. How does Support vector classifier(SVC) works?

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Q11. What kind of information we get from slack variables $\epsilon$ in SVC?

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Q12. How to interpret regularization parameter $C$ in SVC?

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Q14. Explain bias-variance tradeoff in SVC?

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Q16. What is the main limitation of SVC?

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Q17. Can we use feature space enlarging technique to solve non linear decision boundary problem with SVC?

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Q18. What is support vector machine(SVM)?

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Q19. What do you mean by kernel function in SVM?

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Q20. What is advantage of using kernel trick over simply enlarging feature space using functions of the original features?

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Q21. What are major drawbacks of kernel based machines?

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Q22. Why kernel trick is popular in SVM?

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Q23. Is SVM a linear model or non-linear model?

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Q24. What is the kernel trick in Support Vector Machines (SVM), and how does it work?

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Q25. How can we set up SVMs to work with multi class classification problems?

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Q26. Is the SVM unique in its use of kernels to enlarge the feature space to accommodate non-linear class boundaries?

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Q27. When should we use SVMs over logistic regression?

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Q28. What is the main benefit of using logistic regression over SVM?

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Q29. Given a true label $y = +1$ and a predicted score $\hat{y} = 0.5$, calculate the hinge loss for this classification example?

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Support Vector Machines

Q30. SVM.

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  1. What’s linear separation? Why is it desirable when we use SVM? image
  2. How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset? image
  3. How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset? image
  4. How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset? image

Support Vector Regression

Q31. What is the main difference between Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Support Vector Regression (SVR)?

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Q32. What are the key components of SVR?

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Q33. What is the role of the ε-tube in SVR?

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Q34. How do you tune the hyperparameters in SVR?

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Q35. What is the significance of the regularization parameter ($C$) in SVR?

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Q36. How does SVR handle outliers in the data?

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Q37. What are the evaluation metrics used to assess the performance of SVR models?

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Q38. What are the advantages and disadvantages of SVR compared to other regression techniques?

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Q39. Can SVR be used for time series forecasting?

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