Machine Learning Interview Questions
Go Back1. Can you list some machine learning use cases which interest you?
2. What experience do you have performing research in the field of machine learning?
3. What are the most recent publications, papers or articles you have read about machine learning topics?
4. Can you talk about how precision and recall are used in the work you do?
5. Do you have a "˜go-to' algorithm, and can you describe it to me?
6. In your opinion, what is the most valuable data applicable to our business?
7. Can you talk about deep learning and how it compares to other machine learning algorithms?
8. What steps would you use to create and implement a data-based decision-making system for our company's users?
9. Bayes' Theorem is often described as 'Naive.' Why is Bayes naive?
10. Please discuss the purpose of regularization and explain the difference between L2 and L1 regularization.
11. Can you define Bayes' Theorem and discuss how it is useful in the context of machine learning?
12. What's the difference between the concepts of probability and likelihood?
13. Can you explain the difference between Type I and Type II errors?
14. Please define a Fourier transform and discuss how it is used?
15. Please discuss how a ROC curve works.
16. Please discuss the differences between generative and discriminative models?
17. What is the difference between K-Nearest Neighbors and k-means clustering?
18. Can you discuss the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning and when each one is used?
19. Can you briefly discuss the trade-offs between bias and variance?
20. What is the purpose of pruning a decision tree?