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What effect does increasing the parameter k in K-Nearest Neighbors generally have?
What effect does increasing the parameter k in K-Nearest Neighbors generally have?
- Decreased bias and increased variance
- Increased bias and decreased variance (correct)
- No significant change in bias or variance
- Increased variance and decreased bias
What is a significant problem associated with using K-Nearest Neighbors when features are not homogeneous?
What is a significant problem associated with using K-Nearest Neighbors when features are not homogeneous?
- Overfitting due to high bias from scaling issues
- Lack of applicability to categorical data
- Underfitting caused by the uniformity of all features
- Certain variables can dominate distance calculations (correct)
Why is feature scaling essential for the KNN algorithm?
Why is feature scaling essential for the KNN algorithm?
- It eliminates the need for cross-validation
- It simplifies the hyperparameter tuning process
- It ensures that all features contribute equally to distance measurements (correct)
- It reduces the overall computational cost of the KNN algorithm
What does weighting by inverse distance in KNN imply?
What does weighting by inverse distance in KNN imply?
What is a typical consequence of using very small values for k in K-Nearest Neighbors?
What is a typical consequence of using very small values for k in K-Nearest Neighbors?
What is the primary advantage of random search over grid search in hyperparameter optimization?
What is the primary advantage of random search over grid search in hyperparameter optimization?
Which method uses a probabilistic model to optimize hyperparameters by balancing exploration and exploitation?
Which method uses a probabilistic model to optimize hyperparameters by balancing exploration and exploitation?
What is the purpose of using mutual information in feature selection?
What is the purpose of using mutual information in feature selection?
Which feature selection technique removes features whose variance does not meet a certain threshold?
Which feature selection technique removes features whose variance does not meet a certain threshold?
What main issue in decision trees can be addressed through careful hyperparameter tuning?
What main issue in decision trees can be addressed through careful hyperparameter tuning?
Which feature selection technique would be inappropriate for a model that lacks built-in variable selection capabilities?
Which feature selection technique would be inappropriate for a model that lacks built-in variable selection capabilities?
Which statement is true regarding the use of ensemble methods with decision trees?
Which statement is true regarding the use of ensemble methods with decision trees?
What approach combines multiple decision trees to improve prediction accuracy?
What approach combines multiple decision trees to improve prediction accuracy?
What is a hyperparameter?
What is a hyperparameter?
Which of the following is NOT a component required in the hyperparameter tuning process?
Which of the following is NOT a component required in the hyperparameter tuning process?
What is the role of cross-validation in the hyperparameter tuning process?
What is the role of cross-validation in the hyperparameter tuning process?
How can hyperparameter space be defined for a given algorithm?
How can hyperparameter space be defined for a given algorithm?
What is the main objective when tuning hyperparameters using the iterative procedure outlined?
What is the main objective when tuning hyperparameters using the iterative procedure outlined?
What may happen if hyperparameters are improperly tuned?
What may happen if hyperparameters are improperly tuned?
Why is it recommended to evaluate hyperparameter tuning results using several metrics?
Why is it recommended to evaluate hyperparameter tuning results using several metrics?
When defining hyperparameter space for the KNN algorithm, which of the following could be a potential specification?
When defining hyperparameter space for the KNN algorithm, which of the following could be a potential specification?
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Study Notes
Hyperparameter Tuning
- Hyperparameters are parameters that are not learned within estimators.
- Cross-validation is crucial for selecting the best hyperparameters.
- Hyperparameter tuning involves defining a search space, choosing a search method, and using a scoring function for evaluation.
- Grid search explores all possible combinations of hyperparameters.
- Random search randomly samples hyperparameter sets.
- Bayesian search builds a probabilistic model to guide the search for optimal hyperparameters.
- Random search is often preferred over grid search for high-dimensional data.
Feature Selection
- Feature selection is the process of choosing relevant features from a dataset.
- Univariate/Bivariate Feature Selection methods include:
- Variance Threshold: Removes features with variance below a threshold.
- Mutual Information: Measures the dependence between two variables.
- Mutual Information values smaller than the square root of the sample size are generally preferred.
- K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) can be impacted by the scaling of features.
- Feature Scaling techniques like normalization and standardization can improve KNN performance.
- Distance metrics used in KNN can be influenced by feature scaling, leading to inaccurate predictions.
- Weighing neighbors can be used to prioritize closer data points in KNN predictions.
- Inverse distance weighting assigns higher weights to closer observations.
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