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level1_viva8 MLP Level 1 Aug 5, 2026
  1. 1
    What are the parameters of Logistic Regression?
  2. 2
    Can Logistic Regression be used to predict a continuous value (e.g., rainfall)? Why or why not?
  3. 3
    What are the parameters of Random Forest?
  4. 4
    What is the loss function of Random Forest?
  5. 5
    Difference between parameters and hyperparameters.
  6. 6
    What are the important XGBoost parameters?
  7. 7
    If XGBoost is overfitting, should you increase or decrease n_estimators? Why?
  8. 8
    If XGBoost is overfitting, should you increase or decrease learning_rate? Why?
  9. 9
    What does colsample_bytree / colsample_bylevel / colsample_bynode (referred to as col_by_sample) do?
  10. 10
    What is n_iter in RandomizedSearchCV?
  11. 11
    What does verbose mean?
  12. 12
    What does n_jobs do?
  13. 13
    What is the mathematical range of R² score?
  14. 14
    Why can R² be negative?
  15. 15
    What is data leakage?
  16. 16
    How did you ensure data leakage was avoided?
  17. 17
    Why should you not train the final model on the entire dataset before evaluation?
  18. 18
    How do you ensure reproducibility of results?
  19. 19
    What is autocorrelation?
  20. 20
    Explain the parameters of TF-IDF.
  21. 21
    Create a preprocessing Pipeline using: SimpleImputer RobustScaler KNNImputer OneHotEncoder
  22. 22
    Add RobustScaler to an existing preprocessing pipeline.
  23. 23
    Explain what changes after adding RobustScaler.
  24. 24
    Load the Diabetes dataset.
  25. 25
    Convert it into a Pandas DataFrame.
  26. 26
    Print the number of features.
  27. 27
    Fit a Logistic Regression model on it.
  28. 28
    Explain EDA overall, not line by line.
  29. 29
    Mention one important observation from the dataset.
  30. 30
    Show all model score comparisons.
  31. 31
    How many models were trained and how were they compared?
  32. 32
    Explain the mandatory Level-1 notebook sections one by one.
  33. 33
    Were any custom/user-defined functions used?
  34. 34
    Were any LLMs used while building the notebook?
  35. 35
    Parameters of Logistic Regression
  36. 36
    Parameters of Random Forest
  37. 37
    Loss function of Random Forest
  38. 38
    Difference between Parameters and Hyperparameters
  39. 39
    Important XGBoost parameters
  40. 40
    Effect of n_estimators on overfitting
  41. 41
    Effect of learning_rate on overfitting
  42. 42
    colsample_* parameter in XGBoost
  43. 43
    verbose
  44. 44
    n_jobs
  45. 45
    Mathematical range of R²
  46. 46
    Why R² can be negative
  47. 47
    Data Leakage
  48. 48
    How to prevent Data Leakage
  49. 49
    Why not train the final model on the full dataset before evaluation
  50. 50
    Reproducibility of results
  51. 51
    Autocorrelation
  52. 52
    TF-IDF parameters
  53. 53
    Can Logistic Regression predict rainfall? Why/Why not?
  54. 54
    Create/Edit preprocessing pipeline with RobustScaler, KNNImputer, OHE
  55. 55
    Load Diabetes dataset → DataFrame → Number of features → Fit Logistic Regression
  56. 56
    Explain one key insight from EDA
  57. 57
    Compare all trained models
  58. 58
    User-defined functions
  59. 59
    LLM usage in the notebook
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