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ML Project Deep Dive

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Tell me about one ML project you worked on.

Choose a project where you personally made meaningful modeling or experimentation decisions. Explain the problem, dataset, target, feature engineering, model selection, training and validation strategy, evaluation metrics, and your individual contribution. Discuss one tradeoff or failure mode, how you addressed it, and what you would improve. Be prepared to describe how the model was used or evaluated in practice. Use concrete evidence from your project, but do not disclose confidential information.