Easy Machine Learning Engineer questions
34 questions · 5 points each for a correct first answer.
- 1.Big gap between train and validation accuracymodel-evaluation, overfittingeasy
- 2.Why keep a separate test setmodel-evaluation, data-splittingeasy
- 3.Which model needs feature scalingfeature-engineering, feature-scalingeasy
- 4.Definition of precisionclassification-metricseasy
- 5.Symptom of a learning rate that is too highoptimisation, training-debuggingeasy
- 6.Encoding a city featurefeature-engineering, categorical-encodingeasy
- 7.Bias and variance as complexity growsbias-varianceeasy
- 8.Accuracy on imbalanced dataclassification-metrics, imbalanced-dataeasy
- 9.Shape of a matrix productlinear-algebraeasy
- 10.Cosine similarity by handlinear-algebra, embeddingseasy
- 11.Chain rule on a squared termcalculus, gradientseasy
- 12.What sampling temperature doesllm-decodingeasy
- 13.Standard error of a sample meanstatisticseasy
- 14.What logistic regression outputslogistic-regressioneasy
- 15.k-nearest neighbours voteknneasy
- 16.What k-means minimisesclusteringeasy
- 17.Variance kept by two componentspcaeasy
- 18.Gini impurity of a nodedecision-treeseasy
- 19.Why random forests average treesensembles, random-foresteasy
- 20.ReLU applied to a vectoractivations, numpyeasy
- 21.Recall from confusion countsclassification-metricseasy
- 22.RMSE from four errorsregression-metricseasy
- 23.Broadcasting a column and a rownumpy, broadcastingeasy
- 24.Dropout after eval()pytorch, regularizationeasy
- 25.Why export a model to ONNXmodel-serving, onnxeasy
- 26.Why LLMs use subword tokenstokenization, llmeasy
- 27.What text embeddings captureembeddingseasy
- 28.Standardising a single valuefeature-scalingeasy
- 29.When early stopping triggerstraining, regularizationeasy
- 30.Optimizer steps in one epochtrainingeasy
- 31.Expected starting loss, 10 classesloss-functions, debuggingeasy
- 32.What retrieval-augmented generation addsrageasy
- 33.What data drift meansmonitoring, drifteasy
- 34.What prompt injection isllm-safetyeasy