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Top 25 Flashcard Interview Questions
Here are the top 25 AI interview questions in Flashcard format, sorted by community quality. Each entry links to a detailed answer with explanations, hints, and source-grade follow-ups. See all in this format →
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- 01What is the KV cache in transformer inference?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.7
- 02PPO vs DPO, what's the practical difference?FlashcardMedium·Qual 4.6AnthropicOpenAI
- 03HNSW vs IVF, when do you pick each for a production vector index?FlashcardMedium·Qual 4.5PineconeQdrant
- 04How does MCP differ from OpenAI-style function calling?FlashcardMedium·Qual 4.5
- 05Estimate the per call cost of a typical RAG chatbot using GPT-4o-mini.FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.4OpenAI
- 06Why is cosine similarity preferred over Euclidean distance for text embeddings?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.4CohereOpenAI
- 07Why does BPE tokenization use subwords instead of words or characters?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.4
- 08What is semantic chunking and when does it beat fixed size chunking?FlashcardMedium·Qual 4.3
- 09How is long-term memory typically implemented in an agent?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 10What causes context pollution in a long-running agent?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 11What does observability mean for production LLM agents, and how is it different from app monitoring?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 12When should a production agent pause for human approval?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 13What does one agent trace capture step by step?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 14Why run agent-generated code inside an isolated sandbox?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 15Why cap each agent run with a cost-per-task budget?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 16Where does an agent keep short-term state during a single task?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 17Define GQA in transformer attentionFlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 18BPE learned 50,000 merge rules during training. What is a merge rule, and where does it live at inference?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 19RoPE, spell out the acronym and name exactly which vectors it rotatesFlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 20GQA, decode the acronym and describe its KV sharing patternFlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 21You hear about 'eval harnesses' like Promptfoo and DeepEval. Explain what an eval harness does that a Jupyter notebook cannot.FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 22How does the temperature parameter reshape the sampling distribution?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 23Describe what 'autoregressive' means for LLM generation.FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 24Name the scalar that QK^T is divided by inside scaled dot-product attention.FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
- 25Where does the MCP client live, and why is it one to one with a server?FlashcardEasy·Qual 4.0
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