CS 7643 QUIZ 3 EXAM WITH CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Modeling Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSGiven a particular NN architecture, the actual model that
represents the real world may not be in that space.
When model complexity increases, modeling error reduces, but optimization error increases.
Estimation Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSEven if finding the best hypothesis, weights, and
parameters that minimize training error, may not generalize to test set
Optimization Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSEven if your NN can perfectly model the world, your
algo may not find good weights that model the function.
When model complexity increases, modeling error reduces, but optimization error increases.
Effectiveness of transfer learning under certain conditions - CORRECT-ANSWERSRemove last FC
layer of CNN and initialize it randomly, then run new data through network to train only that
layer
, In order to train the NN for transfer learning -freeze the CNN layers or early layers and learn
parameters in the FC layers.
Performs very well on very small amount of training, if similar to the original data
Does not work very well if the target task's dataset is very different
If you have enough data in the target domain, and is different than the source, better to just
train on the new data
Transfer learning = reuse features we learn on a very large dataset on a completely new thing
Steps:
Train on very large dataset
Take custom dataset and initialize network with weights trained in Step 1 (replace last fully
connected layer since classes in new network will be different)
Final step -> continue training on new dataset
Can either retrain all weights ("finetune") or freeze (ie: not update) weights in certain layers
(freezing reduces number of parameters that you need to learn)
AlexNet - CORRECT-ANSWERS2x(CONV=>MAXPOOL=>NORM)=>3xCONV=>MAXPOOL=>3xFC
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Modeling Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSGiven a particular NN architecture, the actual model that
represents the real world may not be in that space.
When model complexity increases, modeling error reduces, but optimization error increases.
Estimation Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSEven if finding the best hypothesis, weights, and
parameters that minimize training error, may not generalize to test set
Optimization Error - CORRECT-ANSWERSEven if your NN can perfectly model the world, your
algo may not find good weights that model the function.
When model complexity increases, modeling error reduces, but optimization error increases.
Effectiveness of transfer learning under certain conditions - CORRECT-ANSWERSRemove last FC
layer of CNN and initialize it randomly, then run new data through network to train only that
layer
, In order to train the NN for transfer learning -freeze the CNN layers or early layers and learn
parameters in the FC layers.
Performs very well on very small amount of training, if similar to the original data
Does not work very well if the target task's dataset is very different
If you have enough data in the target domain, and is different than the source, better to just
train on the new data
Transfer learning = reuse features we learn on a very large dataset on a completely new thing
Steps:
Train on very large dataset
Take custom dataset and initialize network with weights trained in Step 1 (replace last fully
connected layer since classes in new network will be different)
Final step -> continue training on new dataset
Can either retrain all weights ("finetune") or freeze (ie: not update) weights in certain layers
(freezing reduces number of parameters that you need to learn)
AlexNet - CORRECT-ANSWERS2x(CONV=>MAXPOOL=>NORM)=>3xCONV=>MAXPOOL=>3xFC
