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What is the effect of increasing the sample size M on the accuracy of error estimates?
What is the effect of increasing the sample size M on the accuracy of error estimates?
- The error estimates become less variable (correct)
- The error estimates become zero
- The error estimates become more variable
- The error estimates remain unchanged
Increasing the number of training samples (N) while keeping the test set unchanged will likely decrease the test error.
Increasing the number of training samples (N) while keeping the test set unchanged will likely decrease the test error.
True (A)
What is the primary disadvantage of non-parametric models?
What is the primary disadvantage of non-parametric models?
They are computationally expensive and may overfit the training dataset.
The expected error does not depend on M, but it does depend on ______.
The expected error does not depend on M, but it does depend on ______.
Match the following terms with their definitions:
Match the following terms with their definitions:
What is a significant advantage of using the ReLU activation function in neural networks?
What is a significant advantage of using the ReLU activation function in neural networks?
The use of GPU processing has made training large neural networks impractical.
The use of GPU processing has made training large neural networks impractical.
What innovative architectural feature does GoogLeNet utilize to improve training of deep networks?
What innovative architectural feature does GoogLeNet utilize to improve training of deep networks?
The process by which gradients shrink as they travel back through layers is called the __________ problem.
The process by which gradients shrink as they travel back through layers is called the __________ problem.
Match the following concepts with their descriptions:
Match the following concepts with their descriptions:
What makes Naive Bayes a 'naive' classifier?
What makes Naive Bayes a 'naive' classifier?
Naive Bayes generally provides better generalization performance than more sophisticated learning methods.
Naive Bayes generally provides better generalization performance than more sophisticated learning methods.
What is the primary computational method used in Naive Bayes to avoid numerical instability?
What is the primary computational method used in Naive Bayes to avoid numerical instability?
The primary goal of the E-step in the Expectation-Maximization method is to estimate the expected value of _____ variables.
The primary goal of the E-step in the Expectation-Maximization method is to estimate the expected value of _____ variables.
What does high bias often indicate in a model's performance?
What does high bias often indicate in a model's performance?
Increasing model complexity will always result in a decrease in training error.
Increasing model complexity will always result in a decrease in training error.
Match the following terms with their descriptions:
Match the following terms with their descriptions:
What happens to validation error when a model starts to overfit?
What happens to validation error when a model starts to overfit?
In which of the following situations might Naive Bayes perform poorly?
In which of the following situations might Naive Bayes perform poorly?
____ bias occurs when the model consistently misses the target due to being overly simplistic.
____ bias occurs when the model consistently misses the target due to being overly simplistic.
The M-step is responsible for updating model parameters to maximize the expected log-likelihood function.
The M-step is responsible for updating model parameters to maximize the expected log-likelihood function.
Match the following types of bias and variance characteristics:
Match the following types of bias and variance characteristics:
What is one characteristic of the E-M algorithm?
What is one characteristic of the E-M algorithm?
What is the consequence of a model that has both high bias and high variance?
What is the consequence of a model that has both high bias and high variance?
Overfitting leads to a decrease in training error but can increase test error.
Overfitting leads to a decrease in training error but can increase test error.
What effect does model complexity have on the accuracy of a test set after initially improving it?
What effect does model complexity have on the accuracy of a test set after initially improving it?
What is the primary purpose of batch normalization?
What is the primary purpose of batch normalization?
Batch normalization is performed over the entire dataset to ensure consistent feature learning.
Batch normalization is performed over the entire dataset to ensure consistent feature learning.
What does padding do in a convolutional neural network?
What does padding do in a convolutional neural network?
The ______ in a convolution layer indicates the amount of steps to move the filter across the input image.
The ______ in a convolution layer indicates the amount of steps to move the filter across the input image.
Match each term with its correct description.
Match each term with its correct description.
Which statement about linear probing is true?
Which statement about linear probing is true?
The 'freeze encoder method' involves updating existing encoder weights during training.
The 'freeze encoder method' involves updating existing encoder weights during training.
What is meant by 'warm start' in the context of training neural networks?
What is meant by 'warm start' in the context of training neural networks?
Study Notes
Error Measurement
- Increasing the number of test samples (M) improves the accuracy of the error measurement.
- Increasing the number of training samples (N) decreases the expected test error.
Model Complexity
- Parametric models have fixed complexity, as the model's dimensionality is constant with respect to the dataset size.
- Non-parametric models become more complex as the training dataset size increases.
- Decision trees create axis-aligned boundaries for classification.
Naive Bayes
- It is a probabilistic classifier that assumes features are independent given the class label.
- It uses class conditional probabilities and prior probabilities to estimate the posterior probability.
- It is highly efficient for learning and prediction.
- It may generalize poorly compared to more sophisticated methods.
EM Algorithm
- An iterative method for finding maximum likelihood estimates when data has missing or hidden components.
- Useful for unlabeled clustering (Gaussian mixture models), bad annotators problem, foreground/background segmentation, and topic models.
- Consists of three steps: initialization, expectation step (E-step), and maximization step (M-step).
Bias, Variance, and Model Complexity
- Bias: error due to approximating a complex problem with a simpler model. High bias indicates underfitting.
- Variance: model's sensitivity to training data. High variance indicates overfitting.
- As model complexity increases, the model's accuracy on the test set increases until a certain optimal point and then decreases due to overfitting.
GoogLeNet
- Key factors behind the breakthrough:
- ReLU activation function: faster convergence and allows training deeper networks efficiently.
- ImageNet dataset: millions of labeled images across thousands of categories.
- GPU processing: enabled efficient training of large neural networks.
- Solved the vanishing gradient problem with the following key features:
- Bottlenecks (Inception modules): use multiple convolutional filters and pooling operations in parallel, reducing the number of channels before larger convolutions.
- Multiple stages of supervision: smaller networks provide additional supervision to improve gradient flow to earlier layers, enhancing convergence and accuracy.
Vanishing Gradients and Information Propagation
- Vanishing gradients occur when gradients shrink significantly during backpropagation in deep networks, preventing optimization of early layers.
- This is caused by multiple factors: long paths for early weights, the presence of zero gradients along these paths, and inability of early layers to learn due to small gradients.
Batch Normalization
- Normalizes features using empirical mean and variance, helping to mitigate the internal covariate shift problem.
- Not applied to the entire dataset due to computational efficiency.
- Normalization for each batch allows for more efficient training using SGD.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
- Padding: allows convolutions to be applied at the borders of the image to capture information near the edges.
- Stride: defines the step size for the convolution filter, essentially down-sampling the image.
Data Augmentation
- Does not necessarily generates the same type of features at every layer of the deep network.
- Aims to generate diverse input data for the model to learn more robust features.
Fine-tuning and Linear Probing
- Linear probing: uses a pre-trained feature extractor to perform linear classification over new classes without training the encoder.
- Freeze encoder method: freezes the weights of the pre-trained encoder and only trains the classifier for new classes.
- Fine-tuning: adjusts encoder weights to improve performance for new classes with a smaller learning rate.
- Warm start: freezes lower layers for a few epochs to allow the classification layer to learn, then gradually unfreezes layers to fine-tune them.
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Test your knowledge on key machine learning concepts such as error measurement, model complexity, Naive Bayes classifiers, and the EM algorithm. This quiz will help reinforce your understanding of these fundamental topics in machine learning.
