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Tree Based Methods in Machine Learning

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Q2. What are the advantages of bagging over decision trees?

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Q3. How does bagging reduces the variance in decision trees?

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Q4. What are some popular algorithms that use bagging?

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Q5. What's the difference between bagging and boosting?

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Q6. How does bagging handle imbalanced datasets?

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Q7. Can bagging be used with any base model?

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Q8. What are some potential drawbacks of bagging?

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Q9. What is the trade-off between bagging and variance?

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Q10. **True or false**: In bagging, we re-sample the training corpus with replacement and there-

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fore this may lead to some instances being represented numerous times while other instances not to be represented at all.

Boosting based Algorithms

Q11. Bagging and boosting are two popular ensembling methods. Random forest is a bagging example while XGBoost is a boosting example.

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  1. What are some of the fundamental differences between bagging and boosting algorithms?
  2. How are they used in deep learning?

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Q13. What are some popular boosting algorithms?

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Q14. What is the key idea behind AdaBoost?

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Q15. What is overfitting, and how does boosting address it?

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Q16. Can boosting models handle noisy data?

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Q17. What are the hyperparameters in boosting algorithms?

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Q18. What is the key idea behind XGBoost?

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Q19. What are some advantages of using XGBoost?

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Q20. How does LightGBM differ from traditional gradient boosting algorithms?

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Q21. What is the trade-off between LightGBM's speed and memory consumption?

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Q22. How does CatBoost handle categorical features?

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Q23. What are some benefits of using CatBoost for gradient boosting?

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