@techNmak: These are literally the kind of LLM interview questions most candidates wish they had seen earlier. A curated list of 5…
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A tweet shares a curated list of 50 LLM interview questions covering fundamentals, fine-tuning, generation, advanced concepts, and math, compiled by Hao Hoang.
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These are literally the kind of LLM interview questions most candidates wish they had seen earlier.
A curated list of 50 LLM interview questions - shared by Hao Hoang.
What’s covered:
Fundamentals: → Tokenization and why it matters → Attention mechanisms in transformers → Context windows and their tradeoffs → Embeddings and initialization → Positional encodings
Fine-tuning & Efficiency: → LoRA vs QLoRA → PEFT to prevent catastrophic forgetting → Model distillation → Adaptive Softmax for large vocabularies
Generation & Decoding: → Beam search vs greedy decoding → Temperature, top-k, top-p sampling → Autoregressive vs masked models
Advanced Concepts: → RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) → Chain-of-Thought prompting → Mixture of Experts (MoE) → Knowledge graph integration → Zero-shot and few-shot learning
Math & Theory: → Softmax in attention → Cross-entropy loss → KL divergence → Gradient computation for embeddings → Vanishing gradient solutions in transformers
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