Practice Properties - 5.4.2 | 5. Latent Variable & Mixture Models | Advance Machine Learning
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Question 1

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What distinguishes soft clustering from hard clustering?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how data points can be assigned in different groupings.

Question 2

Easy

Name one real-world application of Gaussian Mixture Models.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider fields that require grouping based on behaviors or characteristics.

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Question 1

What is soft clustering?

  • A method of group assignment where each point belongs to one cluster.
  • A method allowing each data point to belong to multiple clusters with varying probabilities.
  • A clustering technique that requires linear separability.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about cases where data points may fit more than one category.

Question 2

True or False: Gaussian Mixture Models can only model unimodal distributions.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens when data has multiple peaks.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

If you are tasked with using GMMs to segment customers, describe your approach to determining the appropriate number of components (clusters) to use.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Understanding these criteria is crucial for deciding how many clusters best fit the data.

Question 2

Discuss the implications of local maxima in GMM parameter estimation and how it can impact model quality.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how using different starting points can change the outcome of clustering.

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