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Top 41 Random Forest Interview Questions

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Random Forest Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

How would you define Random Forest?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q2:   

Explain how the Random Forests give output for Classification, and Regression problems?

  
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Q3:   

Is Random Forest an Ensemble Algorithm?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q4:   

How is a Random Forest related to Decision Trees?

  Related To: Decision Trees, Ensemble Learning
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Q5:   

Is it necessary to do Cross Validation in Random Forest?

  
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Q6:   

Does Random Forest need Pruning? Why or why not?

  
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Q7:   

How would you find the optimal size of the Bootstrapped Dataset?

  
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Q8:   

What are some hyperparameters in Random Forest?

  
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Q9:   

What are Ensemble Methods?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q10:   

When would you use SVMs over Random Forest and vice-versa?

  Related To: SVM
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Q11:   

What are some drawbacks of using Random Forest?

  
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Q12:   

Why Random Forest models are considered not interpretable?

  
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Q13:   

How is it possible to perform Unsupervised Learning with Random Forest?

  Related To: Unsupervised Learning
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Q14:   

How would you improve the performance of Random Forest?

  Related To: Feature Engineering
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Q15:   

What is the Isolation Forest Algorithm?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q16:   

What is Variable Selection and what are its Objectives in Random Forest?

  
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Q17:   

What is AdaBoost algorithm?

  
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Q18:   

Explain the advantages of using Random Forest

  
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Q19:   

What is Entropy criteria used to split a node?

  
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Q20:   

How are feature_importances_ in RandomForestClassifier determined in Scikit-Learn?

  Related To: Scikit-Learn
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Q21:   

How does Random Forest handle missing values?

  
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Q22:   

Why is the training efficiency of Random Forest better than Bagging?

  
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Q23:   

What is Out-of-Bag Error?

  
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Q24:   

How do you determine the Depth of the Individual Trees?

  
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Q25:   

How would you define the criteria to split on at each node of the trees?

  
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Q26:   

How does the number of trees affect the Random Forest model?

  
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Q27:   

Explain the concept behind BAGGing

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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Q28:   

What are proximities in Random Forests?

  
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Q29:   

What is the difference between OOB score and validation score?

  Related To: Decision Trees, Ensemble Learning
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Q30:   

What does Random refer to in Random Forest?

  
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Q31:   

Does Random Forest suffer from the Curse of Dimensionality?

  Related To: Curse of Dimensionality, Dimensionality Reduction
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Q32:   

In Random Forests, how do you optimize the Number of Trees T in the Forest?

  Related To: Optimisation
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Q33:   

How can you tell the importance of features using Random Forest?

  
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Q34:   

Imagine that you know there are outliers in your data, would you use Logistic Regression?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression
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Q35:   

Explain how it is possible to get feature importance in Random Forest using Out Of Bag Error

  
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Q36:   

Give some reasons to choose Random Forests over Neural Networks

  Related To: Ensemble Learning, Neural Networks
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Q37:   

What is Gini Impurity used to split a node?

  
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Q38:   

What are some advantages of Neural Network over Random Forest?

  Related To: Neural Networks
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Q39:   

Explain a method of Variable Selection for Random Forest

  
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Q40:   

What technique would you use to prevent Swamping and Masking for Isolation Forest Anomaly Detection?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q41:   

How would you find the optimal number of random features to consider at each split?

  Related To: Ensemble Learning
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