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Top 42 Dimensionality Reduction Interview Questions

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Dimensionality Reduction Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

Why is data more sparse in a high-dimensional space?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, Data Processing
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Q2:   

When would you use Grid Search vs Random Search for Hyperparameter Tuning?

  Related To: ML Design Patterns, Optimisation
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Q3:   

Explain how do you understand Dimensionality Reduction

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q4:   

What methods of Hyperparameters Tuning do you know?

  Related To: ML Design Patterns, Model Evaluation, Optimisation
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Q5:   

What is the Curse of Dimensionality and how can Unsupervised Learning help with it?

  Related To: Unsupervised Learning, Curse of Dimensionality
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Q6:   

How is the first principal component axis selected in PCA?

  Related To: PCA
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Q7:   

What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?

  Related To: PCA
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Q8:   

How does the Curse of Dimensionality affect Machine Learning models?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality
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Q9:   

Explain One-Hot Encoding and Label Encoding. Does the dimensionality of the dataset increase or decrease after applying these techniques?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q10:   

Does kNN suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality and if it why?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, K-Nearest Neighbors
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Q11:   

How does High Dimensionality affect Distance-Based Mining Applications?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, Data Mining
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Q12:   

How does the Curse of Dimensionality affect Privacy Preservation?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality
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Q13:   

How many Dimensionality Reduction Techniques do you know?

  
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Q14:   

Explain the Sparse Random Projection

  
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Q15:   

What is the difference and connection between Clustering and Dimension Reduction?

  Related To: Clustering, Unsupervised Learning
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Q16:   

What is the Crowding Problem?

  
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Q17:   

What's the difference between PCA and t-SNE?

  Related To: PCA
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Q18:   

What is the difference between PCA and Random Projection approaches?

  Related To: PCA
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Q19:   

How does Random Projection reduce the dimensionality of a set of points?

  
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Q20:   

What is Singular Value Decomposition?

  
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Q21:   

Why is Centering and Scaling the data important before performing PCA?

  Related To: PCA, Linear Algebra
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Q22:   

What are the two branches of Dimensionality Reduction?

  
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Q23:   

How does an Isomap perform Dimensionality Reduction?

  
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Q24:   

What are some advantages of using LLE over PCA?

  Related To: PCA, Unsupervised Learning
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Q25:   

Why does the hyperparameter optimisation method GridSearch suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality
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Q26:   

Explain the Locally Linear Embedding algorithm for Dimensionality Reduction

  Related To: Unsupervised Learning
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Q27:   

Does linear SVMs suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality?

  Related To: SVM, Curse of Dimensionality
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Q28:   

How does a Deep Neural Network escape/resist the Curse of Dimensionality?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, Deep Learning
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Q29:   

What is the Hughes Phenomenon?

  Related To: Data Structures
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Q30:   

Does Random Forest suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality?

  Related To: Random Forest, Curse of Dimensionality
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Q31:   

How does Isometric Mapping (Isomap) work?

  
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Q32:   

What is Independent Component Analysis?

  
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Q33:   

How does the Curse of Dimensionality affect k-Means Clustering?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, K-Means Clustering
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Q34:   

What is t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbour Embedding?

  
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Q35:   

What are the rules for generating a random matrix when Gaussian Random Projection is used?

  
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Q36:   

What is Kernel Principal Component Analysis?

  
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Q37:   

What is Sparse PCA?

  Related To: PCA
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Q38:   

When would you use Manifold Learning techniques over PCA?

  Related To: PCA
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Q39:   

What is Multidimensional Scaling?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Q40:   

How does the Metric Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) algorithm reduce dimensionality?

  
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Q41:   

How does Normalization reduce the Dimensionality of the Data if you project the data to a Unit Sphere?

  Related To: Data Processing
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Dimensionality Reduction Practical Challenges

Q1:   

If we have a date column in our dataset, then how will you perform Feature Engineering using Python?

  Related To: Pandas, Feature Engineering
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