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mlp_level1_viva14 MLP Level 1 Aug 7, 2026
  1. 1
    Introduction.
  2. 2
    Show your ID card.
  3. 3
    Explain your notebook/project.
  4. 4
    Explain your notebook as a story.
  5. 5
    Explain your project flow from start to finish.
  6. 6
    Explain the machine learning models you used.
  7. 7
    Explain the preprocessing pipeline you used.
  8. 8
    Explain the hyperparameter tuning process.
  9. 9
    What is the cv parameter in GridSearchCV/RandomizedSearchCV?
  10. 10
    How does Cross Validation work?
  11. 11
    What is K-Fold Cross Validation?
  12. 12
    Why is a validation set needed?
  13. 13
    How many iterations/model fits will be performed based on your hyperparameter tuning?
  14. 14
    Difference between GridSearchCV and RandomizedSearchCV.
  15. 15
    How do you identify whether a model is overfitting or underfitting?
  16. 16
    How do you reduce overfitting?
  17. 17
    What happens if the correlation between features is high?
  18. 18
    How many models did you try?
  19. 19
    Did you try different preprocessing techniques?
  20. 20
    Did you try different models?
  21. 21
    What resources did you use?
  22. 22
    What other approaches did you try?
  23. 23
    What difficulties did you face while doing the project?
  24. 24
    Have you used any sklearn Pipelines?
  25. 25
    Explain your missing value handling.
  26. 26
    How did you handle numerical missing values?
  27. 27
    How did you handle class imbalance?
  28. 28
    Why did you use One-Hot Encoding?
  29. 29
    Have you used scaling?
  30. 30
    Why did you use StandardScaler?
  31. 31
    How does StandardScaler work?
  32. 32
    Difference between StandardScaler and other scaling techniques.
  33. 33
    What is scaling?
  34. 34
    Why didn't you use scaling?
  35. 35
    What is the learning rate parameter?
  36. 36
    Which scoring metric did you use to compare models?
  37. 37
    Why did you use F1-Score, Precision, and Recall instead of RMSE?
  38. 38
    What happens if RMSE is used for Logistic Regression?
  39. 39
    Explain the ROC Curve.
  40. 40
    Explain the Confusion Matrix.
  41. 41
    Point out True Positive (TP) and True Negative (TN) in the Confusion Matrix.
  42. 42
    What is log1p?
  43. 43
    What is the mean and standard deviation after StandardScaler?
  44. 44
    Coding: Implement RandomizedSearchCV for Logistic Regression.
  45. 45
    Coding: Train an ElasticNet model and evaluate its performance.
  46. 46
    Coding: Train a Linear Regression model on the raw (non-preprocessed) dataset.
  47. 47
    Coding: Load the training dataset and print the first 6/7/10 rows.
  48. 48
    Coding: Filter rows where ManufactureYear is greater than a given year.
  49. 49
    Coding: Print unique/value counts of VendorPartnerID.
  50. 50
    Coding: Find the proportion of each category (cardinality) in a feature.
  51. 51
    Coding: Load the Iris dataset and train a Ridge Regression model.
  52. 52
    Coding: Load the California Housing dataset.
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