Menu of Topics for a Machine Learning Interview

The most important thing in a machine learning interview or presentation is to be passionate when talking about it (duh!). Here are some of my favourite topics to discuss about:

• Bayes rule and its applications
• Data normalization/scaling techniques
• Feature encoding/representation
• Different types of classifiers/regressors for supervised learning
• Text analysis: similarity measure between documents/texts, TF-IDF, N-grams, NLP techniques.
• Computer vision: image classification, image segmentation, object detection.
• Dimensionality reduction: PCA, UMAP, t-SNE, Fourier transform, etc.

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Of course, be prepared also to talk about your own machine learning projects that you’ve done!