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GATE DA Official Syllabus

📊 Probability and Statistics

📐 Linear Algebra

  • Vector space, subspaces, linear dependence and independence of vectors
  • Matrices, projection matrix, orthogonal matrix, idempotent matrix, partition matrix
  • Quadratic forms, systems of linear equations and solutions; Gaussian elimination
  • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, determinant, rank, nullity, projections
  • LU decomposition, singular value decomposition

📈 Calculus and Optimization

  • Functions of a single variable, limit, continuity and differentiability
  • Taylor series, maxima and minima, optimization involving a single variable

💻 Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms

  • Programming in Python
  • Basic data structures: stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, hash tables
  • Search algorithms: linear search and binary search
  • Basic sorting algorithms: selection sort, bubble sort and insertion sort
  • Divide and conquer: mergesort, quicksort
  • Introduction to graph theory; basic graph algorithms: traversals and shortest path

🗄️ Database Management and Warehousing

  • ER-model, relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL
  • Integrity constraints, normal forms, file organization, indexing
  • Data types, data transformation: normalization, discretization, sampling, compression
  • Data warehouse modelling: schema for multidimensional data models, concept hierarchies, computations

🤖 Machine Learning

  • Supervised Learning: Regression and classification, simple/multiple linear regression, ridge regression, logistic regression
  • k-nearest neighbour, naive Bayes classifier, linear discriminant analysis, support vector machines, decision trees
  • Bias-variance trade-off, cross-validation methods (LOO, k-folds)
  • Multi-layer perceptron, feed-forward neural networks
  • Unsupervised Learning: Clustering algorithms, k-means/k-medoid, hierarchical clustering (top-down, bottom-up)
  • Dimensionality reduction, principal component analysis

🧠 Artificial Intelligence

  • Search: informed, uninformed, adversarial
  • Logic: propositional, predicate
  • Reasoning under uncertainty: conditional independence, exact inference (variable elimination), approximate inference (sampling)