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    Machine Learning PYQs for GATE DA

    GATE DA Machine Learning: 4 units and 21 chapters, weightage from 26 previous year questions across 3 papers, a study order by exam weight and 0 practice ques

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    Question 1
    2026 PYQ
    Consider that for a supervised learning task, the objective function being minimized is , where is the input and is the parameter. Stochastic Gradient Descent with learning rate of 0.10 is used for parameter updates.

    Suppose that at the end of iteration , the value of becomes 10.00.

    Let be the input for iteration .

    The value of at the end of iteration is __________ . (Rounded off to two decimal places)
    Question 2
    2025 PYQ
    Consider designing a linear classifier


    on a dataset , , , . Recall that the sign function outputs if the argument is positive, and if the argument is non-positive. The parameters and are updated as per the following training algorithm:


    whenever . In other words, whenever the classifier wrongly predicts a sample from the dataset, gets updated to , and likewise gets updated to . Consider the case , . Then
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    Machine Learning PYQs for GATE DA

    GATE DA Machine Learning: 4 units and 21 chapters, weightage from 26 previous year questions across 3 papers, a study order by exam weight and 0 practice questions.

    About Machine Learning Previous Year Questions (PYQs)

    26 previous year questions from Machine Learning in GATE DA, grouped by chapter with the exam year, answer key and step-by-step solution for each.

    GATE DA Machine Learning Unit-wise Weightage from Past Papers

    We counted every GATE DA Machine Learning previous year question in our bank (26 questions from 3 papers) and grouped them by unit.

    UnitChaptersPYQsShare of sectionAvg per paper
    Supervised Learning92181%7
    Unit 1 — Machine Learning300%0
    Unit 2 — Machine Learning300%0
    Unsupervised Learning6519%1.7

    Suggested Machine Learning Study Order for GATE DA

    1. Supervised Learning: 81% of past Machine Learning questions, about 7 per paper.
    2. Unsupervised Learning: 19% of past Machine Learning questions, about 1.7 per paper.

    Start where the marks are. Units at the top of this list have appeared most often in past GATE DA papers.

    Units in GATE DA Machine Learning

    All Machine Learning chapters

    One Solved Question from Each Machine Learning Chapter

    Question 1 · Regression, Regularization and Gradient-Based Learning · 2026 NAT
    Consider that for a supervised learning task, the objective function being minimized is , where is the input and is the parameter. Stochastic Gradient Descent with learning rate of 0.10 is used for parameter updates.

    Suppose that at the end of iteration , the value of becomes 10.00.

    Let be the input for iteration .

    The value of at the end of iteration is __________ . (Rounded off to two decimal places)
    Question 2 · Linear Classifiers, Discriminant Analysis and Margin-Based Methods · 2025 MCQ
    Consider designing a linear classifier


    on a dataset , , , . Recall that the sign function outputs if the argument is positive, and if the argument is non-positive. The parameters and are updated as per the following training algorithm:


    whenever . In other words, whenever the classifier wrongly predicts a sample from the dataset, gets updated to , and likewise gets updated to . Consider the case , . Then
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