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Given logistic regression as our mapper for binary classification, what is the cost function (select all that apply)?:

Modern communication methods make people’s lives easier. Discuss.                                                          OR It is more important to have a good salary than to enjoy your work. Discuss.                                                 OR   Honesty is the most important quality for success in business. Discuss.

Which multiclass extension approach to support vector machines can be more computationally expensive in terms of the number of classifiers generated?

For an MLP with one hidden layer, dropout is used to create a m-dimensional multivariate _____ vector (also called a masking vector) to drop a fraction of the hidden neurons with probability r of keeping a neuron.

For the following support vector regressor which points are included as support vectors?

Which activation function was used in the gates of an LSTM as a measure of importance on previous “memories?”

Two main issues in PageRank are (1) dead ends where important information can be absorbed and (2) spider traps that can cause important information to “leak out”.

Dropout’s net effect is similar to _______ except that dropout is a form of _______ regularization.

Why is item-item collaborative filtering often considered better in practice than user-user collaborative filtering for recommendation systems?

What may a large learning rate (i.e., too high) cause for deep neural networks?