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Top 59 LLMs Interview Questions

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LLMs Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

How can you evaluate the performance of Language Models?

  Related To: ChatGPT, Model Evaluation, NLP
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Q2:   

What kind of tokenisation techniques in LLMs do you know?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q3:   

How next sentence prediction (NSP) is used in language modeling?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q4:   

What's the Difference Between Self-Attention and Attention in the Transformer Architecture?

  
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Q5:   

Can you provide a high-level overview of Transformers' architecture?

  
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Q6:   

What's the advantage of using transformer-based vs LSTM-based architectures in NLP?

  
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Q7:   

How LLMs are pre-trained?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q8:   

How can bias be mitigated with human-in-the-loop approaches when developing LLMs?

  Related To: LLMOps, Bias & Variance
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Q9:   

What are the Key Benefits of Transfer Learning for LLMs?

  
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Q10:   

What factors contribute to bias in Large Language Models?

  Related To: Bias & Variance
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Q11:   

What is a token in the Large Language Models context?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q12:   

What types of prompts can you use in Large Language Models?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q13:   

How do generative language models work?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q14:   

What's the difference between GPT vs BERT vs T5?

  Related To: ChatGPT, NLP
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Q15:   

What's the difference between Global and Local Attention in LLMs?

  
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Q16:   

How Adaptative Softmax is useful in Large Language Models?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q17:   

Could you name some applications of the transformer network?

  Related To: ChatGPT, NLP
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Q18:   

What's the difference between Wordpiece vs BPE?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q19:   

What's the difference between Tokenization and Embeddings?

  
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Q20:   

What do you mean by alignment in the context of attention mechanism?

  
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Q21:   

What Transfer learning Techniques can you use in LLMs?

  
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Q22:   

What is Data Drift and how can you detect it in LLMs?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q23:   

What are some approaches that can be used for monitoring LLMs?

  Related To: Model Evaluation, LLMOps
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Q24:   

What are some common practices for Preprocessing data for LLMs?

  Related To: LLMOps, Data Processing
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Q25:   

What are the main challenges you could face when developing LLMs for Production?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q26:   

How can you use Attention Layers for the explainability of the Large Language Model?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q27:   

What is the role of an LLM observability system in the LLMOps workflow? What kind of data can be managed here?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q28:   

What are some common techniques for optimizing LLMs output?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q29:   

How can you avoid Hallucinations when developing an LLM?

  Related To: LLMOps
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Q30:   

Why a Multi-Head Attention mechanism is needed in a Transformer-based Architecture?

  
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Q31:   

Why would you use Encoder-Decoder RNNs vs plain sequence-to-sequence RNNs for automatic translation?

  Related To: NLP, RNN, Neural Networks
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Q32:   

Is there a way to train a Large Language Model (LLM) to store a specific context?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q33:   

What's the difference between next-token-prediction vs masked-language-modeling in LLM?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q34:   

Can you provide some examples of alignment problems in Large Language Models?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q35:   

What are the trade-offs of using next-token-prediction and masked-language-modeling training techniques?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q36:   

How does ChatGPT understand context?

  Related To: ChatGPT, NLP
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Q37:   

How is Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) used in NLP?

  Related To: NLP, CNN, Neural Networks
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Q38:   

What's the difference between Encoder vs Decoder models?

  
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Q39:   

In a transformer, can the same word have different attention weights in different sentences?

  
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Q40:   

How is the Transformer Network better than CNNs and RNNs?

  Related To: NLP, CNN, RNN
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Q41:   

What can go wrong when fine-tuning BERT?

  
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Q42:   

How does BERT training work?

  
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Q43:   

Can you explain the concept of reinforcement learning in the context of language models? How does it apply to ChatGPT?

  Related To: ChatGPT, Reinforcement Learning
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Q44:   

What's the difference between token embeddings and segment embeddings and why are they needed?

  
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Q45:   

Can you name some methods to reduce Toxicity Generation in Large Language Models?

  
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Q46:   

How can Saliency Methods improve explainability in Large Language Models?

  Related To: Neural Networks
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Q47:   

What’s the difference between Feature-based Transfer Learning vs. Fine Tuning in LLMs?

  
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Q48:   

What are some downsides of fine-tuning LLMs?

  Related To: ChatGPT
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Q49:   

How does an LLM parameter relate to a weight in a Neural Network?

  Related To: ChatGPT, Neural Networks
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Q50:   

How Does Adversarial De-biasing Work?

  Related To: LLMOps, Bias & Variance
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Q51:   

Can you explain how does the attention mechanism work for Time Series tasks?

  
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Q52:   

What's the importance and the difference of monitoring Generative models with Reference Text vs without Reference Text?

  Related To: NLP, LLMOps
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Q53:   

Transformer models are expensive, what are ways to shrink them?

  
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Q54:   

How can you evaluate LLMs using other LLMs?

  Related To: Model Evaluation, LLMOps
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Q55:   

What is the difference between Word Embedding, Position Embedding and Positional Encoding in BERT?

  
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Q56:   

How does Transfer Learning work in LLMs?

  
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Q57:   

Why do transformers need Positional Encodings?

  
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Q58:   

Can you provide an example of how Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenisation works?

  
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Q59:   

What's the difference between Monotonic alignment and Predictive alignment in transformers?

  
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