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Top 13 Cost Function Interview Questions

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What is the difference between Cost Function vs Gradient Descent?

  Related To: Gradient Descent
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Q2:   

Explain the steps of k-Means Clustering Algorithm

  Related To: K-Means Clustering
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Q3:   

Provide an analogy for a Cost Function in real life

  
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Q4:   

Explain what is Cost (Loss) Function in Machine Learning?

  
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Q5:   

What is the difference between Objective function, Cost function and Loss function

  
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Q6:   

Why don’t we use Mean Squared Error as a cost function in Logistic Regression?

  Related To: Logistic Regression
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Q7:   

How would you fix Logistic Regression Overfitting problem?

  Related To: Model Evaluation, Linear Regression
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Q8:   

What is the Hinge Loss in SVM?

  Related To: SVM, Classification
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Q9:   

What type of Cost Functions do Greedy Splitting use?

  Related To: Decision Trees
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Q10:   

How would you choose the Loss Function for a Deep Learning model?

  Related To: Deep Learning
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Q11:   

What is the Objective Function of k-Means?

  Related To: K-Means Clustering
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Q12:   

What Distance Function do you use for Quantitative Data?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q13:   

What are some necessary Mathematical Properties a Loss Function needs to have in Gradient-Based Optimization?

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