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Start AI Models and Data Engineering PracticeA team is training a deep learning model for image classification. The training loss decreases rapidly but validation loss starts increasing after a few epochs. Which regularization technique should be applied to mitigate this issue?
Explanation: Early stopping halts training when validation loss starts increasing, preventing overfitting. Option A (data augmentation) is wrong because it increases data diversity but does not stop training when validation loss increases. Option B (L2 regularization) is wrong because it penalizes large weights but does not directly address the issue of validation loss increasing. Option D (dropout) is wrong because while it helps generalize by randomly dropping neurons, it does not stop training when overfitting occurs.
A data scientist is working with a dataset that has 10,000 features but only 500 samples. The goal is to train a model for binary classification. Which feature selection technique is MOST appropriate to reduce overfitting?
Explanation: Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) with cross-validation iteratively removes features and evaluates model performance, making it robust for datasets with many features but few samples, thus reducing overfitting. Option A (Univariate selection using chi-squared test) is univariate and can miss feature interactions. Option C (Using all features with L2 regularization) does not reduce the number of features, and L2 regularization alone may be insufficient to prevent overfitting when p >> n. Option D (Principal Component Analysis) creates components that are linear combinations, which may still lead to overfitting and reduces interpretability.
A streaming data pipeline ingests sensor data from IoT devices. The data arrives at irregular intervals and contains occasional spikes. Which data transformation is most appropriate for preparing this data for a time-series model?
Explanation: Downsampling to a fixed frequency using mean aggregation is the most appropriate transformation because time-series models require uniformly spaced timestamps to learn temporal dependencies. By aggregating irregularly arriving sensor data into fixed intervals (e.g., every 5 minutes) using the mean, you smooth out occasional spikes and create a consistent input structure that models like ARIMA or LSTM can process without bias from irregular gaps.
Refer to the exhibit. A data engineer is training a binary classification neural network. The loss fluctuates and does not converge. Which hyperparameter adjustment is most likely to stabilize training?
Explanation: Fluctuating loss that fails to converge during neural network training is a classic sign of an excessively high learning rate, causing the optimizer to overshoot the minimum. Decreasing the learning rate allows the gradient descent updates to take smaller, more stable steps, which smooths the loss curve and promotes convergence.
Refer to the exhibit. A data engineer runs a validation report on the customers table. The "income" column has 12 null values. Which imputation strategy is most appropriate for this column?
Explanation: Imputing missing income values with the median per region preserves the central tendency of each regional subgroup, which is robust to outliers and maintains the distributional characteristics of the data. This strategy is particularly appropriate for income data, which often exhibits skewness and regional variation, ensuring that the imputed values are contextually relevant and do not distort downstream analytics or machine learning models.
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