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L1_118 MLP Level 1 Aug 5, 2026
  1. 1
    What feature engineering techniques did you use?
  2. 2
    Which correlation method did you use?
  3. 3
    Why did you use StandardScaler (or your chosen scaler)?
  4. 4
    Difference between RandomSearchCV and GridSearchCV.
  5. 5
    How many combinations does RandomizedSearchCV try based on n_iter and cv?
  6. 6
    Why did you choose RandomizedSearchCV?
  7. 7
    What is the baseline model?
  8. 8
    If a node has 7 samples, will it split? Explain using min_samples_split and min_samples_leaf.
  9. 9
    If two features have 0 correlation, can they still be collinear?
  10. 10
    Explain Bagging vs Boosting.
  11. 11
    What is a Weak Learner?
  12. 12
    What preprocessing steps did you perform?
  13. 13
    Why didn't you use Accuracy as the evaluation metric?
  14. 14
    Formula of F1 Score.
  15. 15
    Does F1 Score give equal weight to Precision and Recall?
  16. 16
    Why did you use F1 Macro instead of other averaging methods?
  17. 17
    Which of your models are parametric and which are non-parametric?
  18. 18
    Why is Logistic Regression called "Regression" although it performs classification?
  19. 19
    Why did you use MLPClassifier?
  20. 20
    Explain your pipeline structure.
  21. 21
    Explain your hyperparameter tuning approach.
  22. 22
    Explain your model parameters.
  23. 23
    Why did you choose the models you used?
  24. 24
    How did you compare your models?
  25. 25
    What conclusions did you draw from model comparison?
  26. 26
    Explain your EDA graphs and the insights obtained.
  27. 27
    Explain the confidence interval/shaded region in a regression plot.
  28. 28
    Why is the correlation between OperationalHoursMeter and TargetValue nearly zero?
  29. 29
    What does errors="coerce" do while converting datetime?
  30. 30
    Did you use Pipelines or ColumnTransformer? Why?
  31. 31
    Did you use any user-defined functions?
  32. 32
    What is the output type after preprocessing (type(X_train))?
  33. 33
    What does fit_transform() return?
  34. 34
    How can you convert transformer output to a Pandas DataFrame (set_output(transform="pandas"))?
  35. 35
    What are the parameters of LightGBM?
  36. 36
    Explain Ridge and Lasso Regression.
  37. 37
    Which algorithms can perform feature selection?
  38. 38
    What does a Pair Plot show?
  39. 39
    Difference between Histogram and Bar Plot.
  40. 40
    What does Early Stopping mean?
  41. 41
    If the best score occurs at iteration 100, when does training stop with early stopping?
  42. 42
    What does TF-IDF do?
  43. 43
    How did you select the ensemble weights?
  44. 44
    Explain your train-test split and what changes if the split ratio changes.
  45. 45
    Load the Iris dataset and: Display the feature matrix. Separate features and target. Print feature matrix shape. Print target variable. Print feature names. Print data without the target column.
  46. 46
    Load the Breast Cancer dataset and: Print target names. Count missing values.
  47. 47
    Load the California Housing dataset and fit HistGradientBoostingRegressor.
  48. 48
    Load the Wine dataset and print feature names.
  49. 49
    Load the Diabetes dataset and print the feature matrix.
  50. 50
    Load any toy dataset from scikit-learn and display its contents.
  51. 51
    Import a dummy dataset.
  52. 52
    Create a bar chart manually using model names and scores.
  53. 53
    Plot a graph comparing training scores of models.
  54. 54
    Plot the target value graph (including after log transformation if asked).
  55. 55
    Write simple Lasso Regression code.
  56. 56
    Explain your complete notebook.
  57. 57
    Explain EDA.
  58. 58
    Explain preprocessing.
  59. 59
    Explain feature engineering.
  60. 60
    Explain model selection.
  61. 61
    Explain hyperparameter tuning.
  62. 62
    Explain pipeline/ColumnTransformer.
  63. 63
    Explain model comparison.
  64. 64
    Explain graphs and visualizations.
  65. 65
    Explain assumptions and interpretations.
  66. 66
    Explain notebook improvements and limitations.
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