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Start Machine Learning and Deep Learning PracticeA team is reviewing a neural network model summary. The input layer expects 784 features (e.g., 28x28 images). How many parameters does the first dense layer have?
Explanation: The first dense layer has 128 neurons. The parameter count is computed as input_dim * units = 784 * 128 = 100,352. This model summary excludes bias parameters, so the weight count alone is 100,352.
A data scientist is training a binary classification model to detect fraudulent transactions. The dataset is highly imbalanced with only 1% fraud cases. Which technique is most appropriate to address the class imbalance?
Explanation: Oversampling the minority class (e.g., using SMOTE or random oversampling) is the most appropriate technique because it balances the dataset by generating synthetic or duplicate examples of the fraud cases, allowing the model to learn the decision boundary for the minority class without discarding valuable majority-class data. This directly addresses the class imbalance where only 1% of transactions are fraudulent, improving recall and precision for fraud detection.
A company deploys a deep learning model for real-time object detection in autonomous vehicles. The model was trained on high-end GPUs but needs to run on edge devices with limited computational resources. Which technique is most effective for reducing model size and inference latency while maintaining acceptable accuracy?
Explanation: Quantization reduces the precision of the model's weights and activations (e.g., from 32-bit floating point to 8-bit integers), which significantly decreases model size and speeds up inference on edge devices with limited computational resources. This technique directly addresses the constraints of edge deployment while often maintaining acceptable accuracy through careful calibration.
A data scientist is training a random forest model on a large dataset and notices that the model is overfitting. Which hyperparameter adjustment is most likely to reduce overfitting?
Explanation: Decreasing the maximum depth of trees limits how deep each decision tree can grow, which reduces the model's capacity to learn overly specific patterns from the training data. This directly combats overfitting by enforcing simpler trees that generalize better to unseen data.
A deep learning engineer is training a convolutional neural network for image classification. The model is overfitting the training data. Which three techniques can help reduce overfitting? (Choose three.)
Explanation: Dropout layers randomly deactivate a fraction of neurons during training, which prevents co-adaptation and forces the network to learn more robust features. This reduces overfitting by acting as a form of ensemble learning without increasing model complexity.
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