E.G.S. PILLAY ENGINEERING COLLEGE(Autonomous)Nagapattinam – 611 002 M.E.. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS Second Semester 2102CP201–Machine Learning Techniques hours Maximum: 50 Marks Date & Session:19.08.2023& FNTime: 1 ½ Answer ALL QuestionsQ. No PART B – (5 ×2= 10 marks) Marks [CO#, BTL] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Define Dimensionality Reduction 2 [CO3, K2] What is meant by Factor analysis. 2 [CO3, K2] What is meant by Probabilistic Graphical Model?2 [CO4, K2] What is Markov chain?2 [CO5, K2] Give a note on Gibbs Sampling. 2 [CO5, K2] Q. NoPART C – (4 × 10 marks) Marks [CO#, BTL] 6 (a) Explain in detail about EM algorithm 10 [CO3, K3] Or (b) Explain about step by step procedure for PCA with example 10 [CO3, K3] 7 (a) Write note on : i) Bayesian networks and ii) Markov Random fields 10 [CO4, K3] Or (b) Write note on : i) Hidden Markov Models and ii) Conditional Random Fields(CRFs). 10 [CO4, K3] 8 (a) Define Clustering. Discuss about K means algorithm. 10 [CO3, K3] Or (b) Explain about Linear Discriminant Analysis. 10 [CO3, K3] 9 (a) Explain about Monte Carlo Sampling. 10 [CO5, K3] Or (b) What is meant by Reinforcement Learning? Discuss about Markov Decision Process in detail 10 [CO5, K3]