Maximal Margin Classifier
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Support Vector Machines
Interview questions on Support Vector Machines.
39 questions
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Q2. What is a hyperplane?
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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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Q8. How can we overcome limitation of maximal margin classifier? (Part 2)
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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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Q13. What are support vectors in SVC?
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Q14. Explain bias-variance tradeoff in SVC?
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Q15. Is SVC robust to outliers?
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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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Q30. SVM.
- What’s linear separation? Why is it desirable when we use SVM?

- How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset?

- How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset?

- How well would vanilla SVM work on this dataset?

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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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