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Start AI Concepts and Techniques PracticeA data scientist is building a model to predict whether a loan application will default. The dataset has 10,000 labeled examples with 1,000 defaults. Which metric is MOST appropriate for evaluating this highly imbalanced binary classification?
Explanation: AUC-ROC is the most appropriate metric for highly imbalanced binary classification because it evaluates the model's ability to distinguish between classes across all classification thresholds, independent of the class distribution. It is robust to imbalance and provides a comprehensive view of performance.
A company wants to recommend products to users based on their past purchase history. Which machine learning paradigm is BEST suited for this task?
Explanation: Recommending products based on past purchase history is a supervised learning problem because the historical purchase data provides labeled examples of what users bought, and the model learns to predict future purchases or ratings. Regression is appropriate when predicting a continuous value such as a purchase likelihood or spend amount, which drives the recommendation ranking.
An AI practitioner needs to extract key phrases from a large collection of customer support emails for trend analysis. Which technique is MOST suitable?
Explanation: Named entity recognition (NER) is the correct technique because it identifies and extracts specific entities—such as product names, dates, organizations, and locations—from unstructured text. In customer support emails, key phrases often correspond to these entities (e.g., 'refund', 'shipping delay', 'iPhone 15'), making NER ideal for trend analysis. Unlike classification or sentiment analysis, NER directly surfaces the granular terms needed to track recurring issues. Thus, NER is the most suitable for extracting key phrases.
A data scientist is using a linear regression model to predict house prices and observes that the model performs well on training data but poorly on test data. Which regularisation technique is MOST appropriate to reduce overfitting?
Explanation: L2 regularisation (Ridge) adds a penalty term equal to the sum of the squared coefficients to the loss function, which shrinks coefficient magnitudes without forcing them to zero. This reduces variance and overfitting by making the model less sensitive to individual features, which is ideal when the model performs well on training data but poorly on test data due to high variance.
A team is developing a sentiment analysis model and obtains the following performance on the test set: accuracy=0.92, precision=0.75, recall=0.80, F1=0.77. The baseline majority-class classifier achieves 0.85 accuracy. Which conclusion is MOST justified?
Explanation: The model's accuracy (0.92) is only 7 points above the majority-class baseline (0.85), yet precision (0.75) and recall (0.80) are substantially lower than accuracy. This pattern — high accuracy with depressed precision/recall — is the classic signature of class imbalance, where the majority class dominates predictions and inflates accuracy while the minority class is poorly served. The F1 of 0.77 confirms the model is not performing as well as accuracy alone suggests.
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