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Which search algorithm employs both forward and backward movement in the problem space?
Which search algorithm employs both forward and backward movement in the problem space?
What is a key characteristic of Greedy Best First Search?
What is a key characteristic of Greedy Best First Search?
Which technique is commonly used to avoid overfitting in machine learning models?
Which technique is commonly used to avoid overfitting in machine learning models?
Which algorithm is specifically designed for optimizing feature sets by reducing dimensionality?
Which algorithm is specifically designed for optimizing feature sets by reducing dimensionality?
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In the context of regression analysis, what does 'R square error' measure?
In the context of regression analysis, what does 'R square error' measure?
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What type of problems does logistic regression primarily solve?
What type of problems does logistic regression primarily solve?
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Which of the following best describes logistic regression?
Which of the following best describes logistic regression?
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What is the primary output format of a logistic regression algorithm?
What is the primary output format of a logistic regression algorithm?
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How does logistic regression differ from linear regression?
How does logistic regression differ from linear regression?
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What underlying concept does logistic regression rely on for its analysis?
What underlying concept does logistic regression rely on for its analysis?
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Which of the following is an example of a dependent variable suitable for logistic regression?
Which of the following is an example of a dependent variable suitable for logistic regression?
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What function does logistic regression commonly use to model data?
What function does logistic regression commonly use to model data?
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In logistic regression, what kind of variable formats are considered?
In logistic regression, what kind of variable formats are considered?
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What is the purpose of regularization in model complexity?
What is the purpose of regularization in model complexity?
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Which component of the confusion matrix indicates a Type I error?
Which component of the confusion matrix indicates a Type I error?
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Which of the following is NOT a metric derived from a confusion matrix?
Which of the following is NOT a metric derived from a confusion matrix?
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In the confusion matrix test results, if there are 150 actual diabetic patients, what percentage represents True Positives if 120 were predicted as diabetic?
In the confusion matrix test results, if there are 150 actual diabetic patients, what percentage represents True Positives if 120 were predicted as diabetic?
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What does the True Negative (TN) value represent in a confusion matrix?
What does the True Negative (TN) value represent in a confusion matrix?
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Which aspect of model performance does a confusion matrix primarily help to visualize?
Which aspect of model performance does a confusion matrix primarily help to visualize?
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Which statement best describes the significance of 'False Negatives' in medical diagnosis models?
Which statement best describes the significance of 'False Negatives' in medical diagnosis models?
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What is an advantage of adjustable complexity in model regularization?
What is an advantage of adjustable complexity in model regularization?
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What is the value of True Positives (TP) in the confusion matrix?
What is the value of True Positives (TP) in the confusion matrix?
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What does a false negative (FN) represent in the context of diabetes diagnosis?
What does a false negative (FN) represent in the context of diabetes diagnosis?
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Which metric is primarily concerned with the accuracy of positive predictions?
Which metric is primarily concerned with the accuracy of positive predictions?
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What is the recall percentage for the diabetes diagnosis model?
What is the recall percentage for the diabetes diagnosis model?
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Why might healthcare providers prioritize improving recall over precision?
Why might healthcare providers prioritize improving recall over precision?
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How is the F1-Score defined in the context of model evaluation?
How is the F1-Score defined in the context of model evaluation?
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What does a confusion matrix provide insights about?
What does a confusion matrix provide insights about?
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What is the reported accuracy of the diabetes diagnosis model?
What is the reported accuracy of the diabetes diagnosis model?
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What is one reason the KNN algorithm is considered easy to implement?
What is one reason the KNN algorithm is considered easy to implement?
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What is a significant disadvantage of the KNN algorithm?
What is a significant disadvantage of the KNN algorithm?
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Which statement accurately describes the 'curse of dimensionality' in the context of KNN?
Which statement accurately describes the 'curse of dimensionality' in the context of KNN?
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Which two components are required as hyperparameters in the KNN algorithm?
Which two components are required as hyperparameters in the KNN algorithm?
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What happens when KNN is affected by overfitting?
What happens when KNN is affected by overfitting?
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What adjustment does the KNN algorithm make when a new data point is added?
What adjustment does the KNN algorithm make when a new data point is added?
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Which characteristic of KNN makes it less effective in high-dimensional datasets?
Which characteristic of KNN makes it less effective in high-dimensional datasets?
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How does KNN's 'lazy' nature affect its performance?
How does KNN's 'lazy' nature affect its performance?
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Study Notes
Introduction to AI and problem-solving methods
- AI: AI is a field of computer science aiming to create intelligent machines capable of learning, reasoning, and problem-solving like humans.
- Intelligent agents: These are software programs designed to interact with their environment and perform tasks autonomously, often with goals and objectives.
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Problem-solving using search techniques: Search techniques are algorithms used to find solutions to problems by exploring possible states or actions.
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Uninformed search: This involves exploring possible solutions without any prior knowledge of the problem's structure or goal.
- BFS: Breadth-first search explores all nodes at a given level before moving to the next level.
- DFS: Depth-first search explores a single branch until it reaches a goal or a dead end, then backtracks to explore other branches
- Iterative deepening: Iteratively applies depth-first search, increasing the depth limit in each iteration until a solution is found.
- Bi-directional search: This technique simultaneously explores nodes from the start and goal states until they meet in the middle.
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Informed search: Leverages heuristics, which are estimates of the distance to the goal state, to guide the search.
- Heuristic search: This uses domain-specific knowledge to prioritize exploring promising branches in the search space.
- Greedy best-first search: This selects the node with the lowest estimated cost to the goal at each step.
- A search:* This considers both the estimated cost to the goal and the actual cost from the initial state.
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Local search algorithms: Instead of exploring the entire search space, they focus on improving a current solution until it achieves a good enough level of quality.
- Hill climbing: This repeatedly moves to a neighboring state with a better value until it reaches a local maximum.
- Simulated annealing: Similar to hill climbing, but allows for occasional moves to worse states to avoid getting stuck in local optima.
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Uninformed search: This involves exploring possible solutions without any prior knowledge of the problem's structure or goal.
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Adversarial search: Used in scenarios where multiple agents compete against each other, such as games.
- Game playing: Game playing involves using adversarial search to predict the opponent's actions and make optimal moves.
- Minimax: This algorithm tries to minimize the maximum possible loss for the agent.
- Alpha-beta pruning: A technique used to prune branches of the search tree that cannot lead to the optimal solution.
- Constraint satisfaction problems: These problems involve finding a set of values for variables that satisfy a set of constraints.
Machine Learning & Feature Engineering
- Machine learning: This field tries to enable computer systems to learn from data without explicit programming.
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Machine learning types:
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Supervised learning: The algorithm learns from labeled data, where input features are mapped to corresponding outputs.
- Regression: Predicts continuous values.
- Classification: Predicts categorical labels or classes.
- Unsupervised learning: The algorithm learns from unlabeled data to discover patterns, structures, or relationships.
- Reinforcement learning: An agent interacts with its environment, receiving rewards for desirable actions, and learns to maximize cumulative reward.
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Supervised learning: The algorithm learns from labeled data, where input features are mapped to corresponding outputs.
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Feature engineering: This involves selecting, transforming, and creating features from raw data to improve model performance.
- Features: These are individual attributes or independent variables representing characteristics of data. Their type can be categorical, ordinal, numerical, or temporal.
- Handling missing data: Techniques include imputation, deletion, or using specialized algorithms that handle missing data directly.
- Dealing with categorical features: Encode categorical features using techniques such as one-hot encoding, label encoding, or frequency encoding.
- Feature scaling: This involves standardizing or normalizing features to have a similar range and prevent features with larger scales from dominating the learning process.
- Feature selection: This process aims to select the most relevant features and discard irrelevant or redundant ones.
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Feature extraction: Uses dimensionality reduction techniques to create new features from existing ones while retaining important information.
- PCA (Principal Component Analysis): A common technique for dimensionality reduction. It identifies principal components - linear combinations of original features that capture most of the data variance.
Supervised Learning
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Regression & Classification:
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Types of regression:
- Univariate regression: Involves one independent and one dependent variable.
- Multivariate regression: Involves multiple independent and one dependent variable.
- Polynomial regression: Uses polynomial functions to model the relationship between variables, allowing for non-linear models.
- Mean square error (MSE): This measures the average squared difference between predicted values and actual values, commonly used in regression tasks.
- R-squared error: This measure indicates the proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by the model.
- Logistic regression: Used for binary classification problems. It uses the sigmoid function to map a linear combination of features to a probability between 0 and 1.
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Types of regression:
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Regularization: This technique helps to prevent overfitting by introducing penalty terms that shrink the model's coefficients.
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Bias and variance:
- Bias: The error resulting from an overly simplistic model that cannot capture the complexities of the data.
- Variance: The error resulting from a model that is too complex and overfits the training data.
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Overfitting and underfitting:
- Overfitting: Occurs when a model learns the training data too well but performs poorly on unseen data.
- Underfitting: Occurs when a model is too simple and cannot capture the underlying patterns in the data.
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L1 and L2 Regularization: Techniques used to penalize model complexity.
- L1 (Lasso) regularization: Adds a penalty proportional to the absolute value of the coefficients. This can lead to sparsity, where irrelevant features have zero coefficients.
- L2 (Ridge) regularization: Adds a penalty proportional to the squared value of the coefficients. This shrinks the coefficients towards zero but does not make them exactly zero.
- Regularized Linear Regression: Linear regression models incorporating L1 or L2 regularization.
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Bias and variance:
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Decision trees: Tree-structured models that represent decisions and their outcomes.
- ID3, C4.5, CART: Popular algorithms for constructing decision trees.
- Confusion matrix: A table used to evaluate the performance of classification models. It shows the number of true positives, false positives, true negatives, and false negatives.
- K-folds cross-validation: Used for evaluating model performance by dividing the data into k folds, training on k-1 folds, and testing on the left-out fold.
- K Nearest Neighbour (KNN): A lazy learning algorithm that classifies new instances based on k nearest neighbors in the training data.
- Support Vector Machine (SVM): A powerful algorithm that finds the hyperplane that best separates data points into different classes.
Logistic Regression
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Logistic Regression: Logistic Regression is a statistical method used for predicting binary outcomes (like "yes" or "no", "spam" or "not spam").
- It's a supervised learning algorithm, meaning it learns from labeled data.
- Logistic regression analyzes the relationships between independent variables (features) and the probability of a certain outcome.
- Sigmoid function: This function is used to transform the linear combination of features into a probability between 0 and 1.
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Controls Model Complexity:
- Helps prevent overfitting by introducing a mechanism to balance model complexity with its performance.
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Facilitates Robustness:
- Makes models less sensitive to individual peculiarities in the training data, leading to better generalization.
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Improves Convergence:
- Smooths the error landscape, aiding optimization algorithms to converge more quickly and reliably.
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Adjustable Complexity:
- The strength of regularization can be tuned to fit the data's specific needs and adjust model complexity to achieve the desired level of performance.
Confusion Matrix
- What it is: A table used to evaluate the performance of a classification model.
- What it shows: The confusion matrix compares actual classifications against predicted classifications.
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Elements:
- True Positive (TP): Number of instances correctly identified as belonging to the positive class.
- True Negative (TN): Number of instances correctly identified as belonging to the negative class.
- False Positive (FP): Number of instances incorrectly classified as positive when they are actually negative (Type I error).
- False Negative (FN): Number of instances incorrectly classified as negative when they are actually positive (Type II error).
Key Metrics Derived from the Confusion Matrix
- Accuracy: Overall proportion of correct predictions: (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN)
- Precision: Proportion of correctly predicted positive instances out of all predicted positive instances: TP / (TP + FP).
- Recall (Sensitivity): Proportion of correctly predicted positive instances out of all actual positive instances: TP / (TP + FN).
- F1-Score: Combines precision and recall into a single measure, useful when the classes are imbalanced: 2 * (Precision * Recall) / (Precision + Recall).
Case Study: Medical Diagnosis for Diabetes
- Context: A healthcare provider develops a machine learning model to predict diabetes in patients based on health metrics.
- Model Evaluation: The model's performance is evaluated using a confusion matrix, revealing the model's accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.
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Model Insights:
- The model's high accuracy may seem promising, but it's crucial to consider the cost of false negatives in medical diagnosis.
- The model's precision indicates how well it identifies true diabetic patients when predicting diabetes.
- The model's recall highlights the number of diabetic patients accurately identified, which is crucial in healthcare settings.
- Focus on Recall: Prioritizing recall in medical diagnosis is essential to minimize the risk of missing diabetic patients.
Decision Tree
- What it is: A tree-structured model that visually represents decisions and their potential outcomes, used for both classification and regression tasks.
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How it works:
- The tree starts with a root node, representing the main decision point.
- Branches represent different paths based on the decision made.
- Each node represents a feature or attribute.
- Leaf nodes represent the final predictions or outcomes.
Advantages of the KNN Algorithm
- Ease of Implementation: KNN's low complexity makes it relatively easy to implement.
- Adaptability: KNN stores all data in memory, allowing it to adapt to new data points easily by adjusting future predictions.
- Fewer Hyperparameters: KNN needs only a few parameters (k value, distance metric for measuring similarity), making fine-tuning simpler.
Disadvantages of the KNN Algorithm
- Scalability: KNN requires significant computing power and data storage, making it less suitable for very large datasets.
- Curse of Dimensionality: KNN struggles to classify data effectively when handling high-dimensional datasets.
- Overfitting: KNN can overfit to the training data, resulting in poor performance on unseen data.
Steps of KNN process
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1. Calculate Distance: : Calculate the distance between the new data point and all other data points in the training dataset.
- Euclidean distance: One common distance measure.
- 2. Choose k Neighbors: Select the k nearest neighbors, meaning the k data points with the smallest distances.
- 3. Determine Class: The new data point is classified based on the majority class among its k nearest neighbors.
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