Coursera Machine Learning Week 7 - Support Vector Machines

Quiz

1.

Suppose you have trained an SVM classifier with a Gaussian kernel, and it learned the following decision boundary on the training set:

You suspect that the SVM is underfitting your dataset. Should you try increasing or decreasing C? Increasing or decreasing σ2?

• It would be reasonable to try decreasing C. It would also be reasonable to try decreasing σ2.
• It would be reasonable to try decreasing C. It would also be reasonable to try increasing σ2.
• It would be reasonable to try increasing C. It would also be reasonable to try increasing σ2.
• (CHECKED) It would be reasonable to try increasing C. It would also be reasonable to try decreasing σ2.

2.

The formula for the Gaussian kernel is given by similarity(x,l(1))=exp(−||x−l(1)||22σ2) .

The figure below shows a plot of f1=similarity(x,l(1)) when σ2=1.

Which of the following is a plot of f1 when σ2=0.25?

选瘦的那个

3.

The SVM solves

minθ C∑mi=1y(i)cost1(θTx(i))+(1−y(i))cost0(θTx(i))+∑nj=1θ2j
where the functions cost0(z) and cost1(z) look like this:

The first term in the objective is:

C∑mi=1y(i)cost1(θTx(i))+