Practice Boosting (4.4) - Advanced Supervised Learning & Evaluation (Weeks 7)
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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is boosting in machine learning?

💡 Hint: Think about how individual models can work together.

Question 2 Easy

Name one boosting algorithm.

💡 Hint: These algorithms focus on training weak models.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What technique does boosting primarily use to improve accuracy?

Parallel Training
Sequential Training
Random Sampling

💡 Hint: Think about the order of training in boosting.

Question 2

True or False: Boosting always uses deep models as its learners.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what a 'weak learner' entails.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a dataset with clear class imbalance, how would you approach the problem using boosting techniques? What steps would you take?

💡 Hint: Consider how the principles of boosting can address difficulties in data.

Challenge 2 Hard

List the necessary parameters you would tune while implementing XGBoost for a regression problem and justify each choice.

💡 Hint: Reflect on the balance between bias and variance when tuning parameters.

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