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NLPStart here. 3 questions · ~24 min
STaR vs PLANSEARCH for CodingMedium

Compare self-training on rationales versus explicit plan search for difficult software engineering reasoning tasks.

reasoning methodsllm planningsoftware engineeringSScale Ai
Control Agent Planning LoopsMedium

Design safeguards for multi-step LLM agents so they stop looping, recover from bad plans, and stay grounded.

Hallucinationmulti-step planningLLM AgentsSScale Ai
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System Design6 questions · ~49 min
Design Real-Time VLA Failure HandlingMedium

Analyze the main failure modes of a real-time VLA control system in physical environments, including serving, drift, fleet feedback, and safety monitoring.

low latencyfailure modesvla modelsSScale Ai
Handling Covariate Shift in ImitationHard

Tests your ability to design robust imitation learning pipelines under distribution shift.

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Behavioral & Leadership5 questions · ~41 min
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More topics5 questions · ~41 min
PyTorch Training Loop with AMPMedium

Explain a PyTorch training loop that combines gradient accumulation and mixed precision for a multi-modal transformer.

functionspythonFrameworksSScale Ai
Evaluate Dataset Quality and CoverageMedium

Define metrics to evaluate dataset quality, diversity, and coverage for a newly collected robotics or autonomous driving dataset.

dataset qualityModel MetricscoverageSScale Ai
Diagnose Video Loading Pipeline BottlenecksMedium

Identify and fix throughput bottlenecks in a multi-camera video loading pipeline used for model training.

data loadingmonitoringbottlenecksSScale Ai
Trajectory Parsing Python PrototypeHard

Tests your software engineering skills for building reliable data preprocessing pipelines.

json parsingData StructurespythonSScale Ai
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