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Amazon Machine Learning Interview Questions Set 2

This page lists down second set of objective questions which represents interview questions that have been asked in various amazon machine learning interviews. Here is the first set of questions. These questions have been gathered from sources such as Glassdoor and other places on the internet. Following areas are covered in this set of questions:

The difference between convex and non convex polygons lies in the measure of their angles?

True

False

Correct! Wrong!

For a polygon to be convex, all of its interior angles must be less than _________ degrees

180

270

360

Correct! Wrong!

The cost function of neural network is _______?

Convex

Concave

Neither convex nor concave

Correct! Wrong!

The cost function of a neural network has _______ local maxima and minima?

Single

Multiple

Correct! Wrong!

Generative and discriminative algorithms, both, fall into the class which of the following algorithm?

Supervised

Unsupervised

Correct! Wrong!

Which of the following is models how the data was generated?

Generative algorithm

Discriminative algorithm

None of the above

Correct! Wrong!

Which of the following uses data to model the decision boundary based on which data can be classified in most appropriate boundary?

Generative algorithm

Discriminative algorithm

None of the above

Correct! Wrong!

Which of the following can be used to estimate the parameter of the model?

Gradient Descent

Stochastic gradient descent

Both of the above

Correct! Wrong!

For larger datasets, which of the following can turn out to be faster?

Gradient descent

Stochastic gradient descent

Correct! Wrong!

Which of the following optimization algorithm is deterministic in nature?

Gradient Descent

Stochastic gradient descent

Both of the above

None of the above

Correct! Wrong!

Amazon Machine Learning Interview Questions Set 2

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