{"title":"ACP相关AI工程选择题拓展练习","collected_on":"2026-10-23","count":47,"source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","license_note":"Attribution and same-license sharing required for the republished question content; keep this dataset separate from other licenses.","note":"仅含单选题；原仓库将这些题标为 LLM draft，本站只做结构核验，未逐题独立核实技术事实；非 ACP 官方或回忆题。","questions":[{"id":"cs-llm-0001","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"determinism","difficulty":"hard","stem":"Run locally with one request at a time, the same prompt at temperature 0 always returns the same text. On a busy inference server, the same model and prompt occasionally return different text. Which explanation fits both observations?","options":{"A":"The server batches your request with others, and batch size changes the order of floating-point sums in its kernels.","B":"The server runs a quantized copy of the weights, so its logits are rounded differently from those on your own machine.","C":"Greedy decoding breaks exact ties between tokens at random, and long server responses run into more ties.","D":"The server normalizes whitespace before tokenizing, so the same prompt can turn into different tokens."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Batch size depends on server load, which you do not control, and operations such as matrix multiplication, normalization and attention change their reduction strategy with it. Identical outputs need greedy decoding (or a fixed seed), batch-invariant kernels, and the same hardware and software versions: Thinking Machines Lab showed that with those, 1,000 completions of the same prompt came out identical, at a cost in throughput. Running locally with a batch of one and deterministic kernels also works.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"article","title":"Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference","authors":"Horace He & Thinking Machines Lab","year":2025,"url":"https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L3","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0001","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0002","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"context-kv-cache","difficulty":"easy","stem":"During text generation, what does a transformer's KV cache store?","options":{"A":"The keys and values of earlier tokens, so they are not recomputed at each step.","B":"The logits of the tokens already generated, so sampling can revisit earlier choices.","C":"The most frequent prompts and their answers, so repeated requests return instantly.","D":"The key and value projection weights of each layer, so they are not reloaded from memory at each step."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Without the cache, generating each token would recompute keys and values for every previous token, so the total work would grow quadratically with the length of the output. The price is memory: the cache grows linearly with context length and with the number of requests in a batch, and in long contexts it can take more memory than the weights themselves.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention","authors":"Woosuk Kwon et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L83","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0002","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0003","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"context-kv-cache","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A model has 32 layers, 8 key-value heads per layer and a head dimension of 128, and it stores its KV cache in 16-bit precision. How much memory does the KV cache need for one sequence of 32,768 tokens?","options":{"A":"2 GiB","B":"4 GiB","C":"8 GiB","D":"16 GiB"},"answer":["B"],"explanation":"The cache grows linearly with context length and with the number of sequences served at once: 10 concurrent requests of this length would need 40 GiB, more than the weights of an 8-billion-parameter model in 16 bits (about 16 GB). That is why grouped-query attention, which shares each key-value head among several query heads, and paged memory management, as in vLLM, matter so much for long contexts.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints","authors":"Joshua Ainslie et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13245"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention","authors":"Woosuk Kwon et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L162","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0003","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0004","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"context-kv-cache","difficulty":"hard","stem":"In a chat app, doubling the length of the prompt roughly doubles the time until the first token appears, but the speed at which the rest of the answer is written barely changes. Which explanation fits both observations?","options":{"A":"The whole prompt is processed before the first token; each later token adds one step that mostly reads weights and cache.","B":"The prompt is tokenized character by character and the answer by whole words, so the answer needs fewer steps.","C":"Attention over the prompt is quadratic only for the first token; after it, the model stops attending to the prompt.","D":"Sending a longer prompt to the server takes longer, and network transfer dominates the wait for the first token."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Serving systems report the two phases separately: time to first token (TTFT), dominated by prefill, and time per output token, dominated by decode. Prefill is compute-bound and handles all prompt tokens in parallel, while decode is memory-bound, since each step reads all the weights and the growing KV cache to produce a single token. That is why prompt caching, which reuses the KV cache of a repeated prefix, cuts TTFT but not decode speed.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"DistServe: Disaggregating Prefill and Decoding for Goodput-optimized Large Language Model Serving","authors":"Yinmin Zhong et al.","year":2024},{"kind":"paper","title":"Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention","authors":"Woosuk Kwon et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L237","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0004","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0005","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"embeddings-positional","difficulty":"hard","stem":"A model trained with rotary position embeddings (RoPE) on 4,096-token sequences is run on 16,000-token documents with no other change. Quality collapses beyond about 4,000 tokens, even though memory is not exhausted. What best explains this?","options":{"A":"Positions past 4,096 produce rotation angles unseen in training, so the model's attention is out of distribution.","B":"The KV cache silently drops the oldest tokens once it passes the training length, so the document's start is lost.","C":"The tokenizer splits long documents into more tokens than it should, so each token carries less meaning.","D":"Softmax over 16,000 positions spreads attention so thin that the scores underflow to zero in 16-bit precision."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Methods that extend the context of a RoPE model rescale the positions so they stay within the trained range, then fine-tune briefly on long sequences. Position interpolation extended LLaMA from 2,048 to 32,768 tokens with about 1,000 fine-tuning steps, and later variants such as YaRN rescale each rotation frequency differently.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"RoFormer: Enhanced Transformer with Rotary Position Embedding","authors":"Jianlin Su et al.","year":2021,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Positional Interpolation","authors":"Shouyuan Chen et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15595"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L322","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0005","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0006","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"attention","difficulty":"easy","stem":"Why does scaled dot-product attention divide the scores by √d_k, the square root of the key dimension?","options":{"A":"Dot products grow with the dimension; large ones saturate the softmax and shrink gradients.","B":"It turns the scores into probabilities that add up to one before the softmax is applied.","C":"It reduces the memory the attention matrix needs, in proportion to the key dimension.","D":"It makes attention ignore tokens that are far apart, which works as a kind of position signal."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Vaswani et al. (2017) note that for large d_k the dot products grow large in magnitude and push the softmax into regions with extremely small gradients. With d_k = 64, as in the original transformer, unscaled scores would have a standard deviation of 8, enough for the softmax to put almost all its weight on a single token.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Attention Is All You Need","authors":"Ashish Vaswani et al.","year":2017,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L409","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0006","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0007","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"tokenization","difficulty":"easy","stem":"Many LLMs miscount the letter r in “strawberry”. What is the main reason?","options":{"A":"They see the word as a few subword tokens, not as individual letters.","B":"Their training data spells the word wrong more often than right.","C":"Counting needs integer arithmetic, which their weights cannot represent.","D":"Their temperature makes them pick a random number when they are unsure."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"A common workaround is to make the letters visible: asking the model to spell the word with spaces or one letter per line turns each letter into its own token, and counting becomes much easier. The same cause explains why reversing a word or counting characters in a long string is unreliable.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units","authors":"Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow & Alexandra Birch","year":2016,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07909"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/llm.json#L482","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"llm-0007","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-llm-0008","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"llm","subtopic":"decoding","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A model's next-token logits are 2 for token A and 0 for token B (there are only two tokens). 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What is this attack, and what is the most robust mitigation?","options":{"A":"Indirect prompt injection; limit the agent's permissions and require confirmation for sensitive actions.","B":"A jailbreak; add a system prompt that tells the model to ignore any instructions that appear on web pages.","C":"A hallucination; ground the agent's answers with retrieval from a set of trusted sources.","D":"Data poisoning; retrain the model on a filtered dataset that excludes malicious pages."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"In indirect prompt injection, malicious instructions arrive inside data the agent processes (a web page, an email, a document) rather than from the user. Because the model receives instructions and data through the same channel, telling them apart is not reliable. 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Which approach keeps the important information available?","options":{"A":"Summarize older turns periodically and store key facts in external memory the agent can query.","B":"Keep the first and the last messages and drop everything in between to make room.","C":"Raise the temperature so the model infers the missing details from the remaining messages.","D":"Switch to a model with a context window twice as large, so that nothing in the conversation needs to be dropped."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Context is a limited budget: every token in it costs time and money and competes for the model's attention. Good agent designs decide what to keep verbatim (recent turns, the current task), what to summarize (older turns) and what to store outside the context and fetch with a tool (stable facts such as account details).","reference_sources":[{"kind":"post","title":"Effective context engineering for AI agents","authors":"Anthropic","year":2025,"url":"https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents"},{"kind":"paper","title":"MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems","authors":"Charles Packer et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/agents.json#L84","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"agents-0002","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"Agent 与多模态","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-agents-0003","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"agents","subtopic":"agent-loop","difficulty":"easy","stem":"In the ReAct pattern, what does an agent do at each step?","options":{"A":"It writes a short reasoning note, calls a tool and reads the result before choosing the next step.","B":"It plans every tool call at the start and then runs the whole plan without looking at results.","C":"It answers from its own knowledge first and uses tools only to check the final answer.","D":"It sends the task to several models in parallel and keeps the answer most of them agree on."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Yao et al. (2022) showed that interleaving reasoning with actions reduced hallucination in question answering with a Wikipedia API compared with reasoning alone, because the model could look facts up instead of inventing them. Most tool-using agents today run some version of this loop.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models","authors":"Shunyu Yao et al.","year":2022,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/agents.json#L171","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"agents-0003","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"Agent 与多模态","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-agents-0004","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"agents","subtopic":"tool-use","difficulty":"easy","stem":"When an LLM uses function calling to check the weather, who actually runs the weather request?","options":{"A":"The application: the model returns a function name and arguments, and the app runs the call.","B":"The model itself, which opens a network connection directly from inside its weights.","C":"The model provider's servers, which run on the internet any function the model names in its reply.","D":"The user, who must copy the call by hand and paste the weather data back in."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"This division matters for security: since the application runs every call, it can validate arguments, ask the user before sensitive actions and limit what each tool can reach. A model that “calls” a function has only asked for it.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"docs","title":"Tool use with Claude","authors":"Anthropic","url":"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview"},{"kind":"docs","title":"Function calling","authors":"OpenAI","url":"https://developers.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/agents.json#L250","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"agents-0004","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"Agent 与多模态","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-agents-0005","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"agents","subtopic":"protocols","difficulty":"easy","stem":"What problem does the Model Context Protocol (MCP) address?","options":{"A":"Each AI app needing custom code for every tool: MCP gives them one standard way to connect.","B":"Models losing context in long conversations: MCP compresses the context window automatically.","C":"Different models using different tokenizers: MCP converts tokens between them.","D":"Prompt injection in tool results: MCP guarantees that tool outputs are safe to read."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Anthropic released MCP as an open standard in November 2024, and other AI providers and tools adopted it during 2025. It turns an M × N integration problem, every app with every tool, into M + N: each app implements the client once and each tool implements the server once.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"post","title":"Introducing the Model Context Protocol","authors":"Anthropic","year":2024,"url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol"},{"kind":"docs","title":"Model Context Protocol specification","authors":"Model Context Protocol","url":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/agents.json#L330","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"agents-0005","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"Agent 与多模态","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-agents-0006","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"agents","subtopic":"agent-security","difficulty":"hard","stem":"An agent can read the user's private files, browse arbitrary web pages and make HTTP requests. A page it visits hides instructions telling it to upload the files to an external server. Which single change most reliably blocks this kind of attack?","options":{"A":"Block sending data to arbitrary destinations: allow only approved domains, or ask the user first.","B":"Add a firm instruction to the system prompt to ignore any instructions found in web pages.","C":"Switch to a larger model, which follows its original instructions more faithfully than a small one.","D":"Lower the temperature so the agent's behavior becomes predictable and easy to audit."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Greshake et al. (2023) showed that instructions planted in retrieved content can take over LLM-integrated applications, an attack called indirect prompt injection. Simon Willison's “lethal trifecta” sums up when it becomes dangerous: private data, untrusted content and external communication in the same agent. Since no prompt reliably prevents injection, the robust defenses limit what a compromised agent can do.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection","authors":"Kai Greshake et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173"},{"kind":"post","title":"The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication","authors":"Simon Willison","year":2025}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/agents.json#L411","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"agents-0006","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"Agent 与多模态","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-agents-0007","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"agents","subtopic":"agent-evaluation","difficulty":"medium","stem":"You need to compare two coding agents on 200 real bug reports from your repository. Which measurement is the most trustworthy?","options":{"A":"Run each agent's patch in a sandbox against tests that reproduce each bug, and count which pass.","B":"Ask a strong LLM to read each patch and rate from 1 to 10 how likely it is to fix the bug.","C":"Measure how similar each patch is to the fix a developer finally merged, using text similarity.","D":"Count how many tool calls each agent needs, since fewer calls show more competent reasoning."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Execution-based evaluation has its own pitfalls: weak tests let wrong patches pass, and an agent with write access may edit the tests themselves. Hidden tests that the agent can neither see nor change, plus reading a sample of patches by hand, make the comparison more reliable.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?","authors":"Carlos E. 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That is why embeddings are often normalized and compared with the dot product, which is cheaper to compute.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"book","title":"Introduction to Information Retrieval","authors":"Christopher D. 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Each fails where the other succeeds, which is why production systems often combine them (hybrid search) and then rerank. Models such as SPLADE learn sparse vectors that expand the query with related terms, halfway between the two.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond","authors":"Stephen Robertson & Hugo Zaragoza","year":2009},{"kind":"paper","title":"BEIR: A Heterogenous Benchmark for Zero-shot Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models","authors":"Nandan Thakur et al.","year":2021,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08663"},{"kind":"paper","title":"SPLADE: Sparse Lexical and Expansion Model for First Stage Ranking","authors":"Thibault Formal, Benjamin Piwowarski & Stéphane Clinchant","year":2021,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05720"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L75","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0002","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-retrieval-0003","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"retrieval","subtopic":"vector-databases","difficulty":"medium","stem":"You have 1 million embedding vectors, need to filter results by customer and date, and your team already runs PostgreSQL. What usually makes the most sense to start with?","options":{"A":"The pgvector extension in your PostgreSQL, keeping the filters in SQL and a single system to run.","B":"A dedicated distributed vector database, since vector search at any scale needs its own storage engine.","C":"An in-memory FAISS index inside the application, rebuilt from the database every night.","D":"A graph database, since HNSW, the index behind fast vector search, is itself a graph."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Choosing a vector database is a constraints problem: volume, latency, filters, update frequency, cost and what the team already knows how to run. One detail to watch: filtering after an approximate search can return fewer results than requested when the filter is very selective, so measure recall with your real filters. This question is volatile because each product's capabilities change quickly.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"docs","title":"pgvector: Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres","authors":"pgvector","url":"https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs","authors":"Yu. A. Malkov & D. A. 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Decades after its introduction it remains a strong baseline, and hybrid systems still pair it with dense retrieval.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond","authors":"Stephen Robertson & Hugo Zaragoza","year":2009},{"kind":"book","title":"Introduction to Information Retrieval","authors":"Christopher D. 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Which change targets this problem most directly?","options":{"A":"Split along sections and lists, and overlap consecutive chunks at the boundaries.","B":"Use a larger embedding model, so each chunk's vector captures more meaning.","C":"Retrieve fewer chunks per question, so the model is less distracted by noise.","D":"Lower the generator's temperature, so it sticks more closely to the retrieved text."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Chunk size trades precision against context: small chunks match queries precisely but lose the surrounding information, while large ones dilute the embedding with unrelated content. Alternatives include retrieving a small chunk and passing its parent section to the model, or prepending to each chunk a short context, written for that chunk from the whole document, before embedding and indexing it (contextual retrieval).","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks","authors":"Patrick Lewis et al.","year":2020,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401"},{"kind":"post","title":"Introducing Contextual Retrieval","authors":"Anthropic","year":2024,"url":"https://www.anthropic.com/news/contextual-retrieval"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L328","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0005","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-retrieval-0006","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"retrieval","subtopic":"hybrid-search","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A dense-retrieval search over support articles works well for questions in plain language but often misses queries with exact codes, such as “error E1047” or part numbers. What is the usual fix?","options":{"A":"Hybrid search: combine BM25 with the dense retriever and merge both rankings.","B":"Fine-tune the embedding model until it memorizes every error code in the catalog.","C":"Lowercase the queries and remove numbers, since they add noise to the embeddings.","D":"Increase the embedding dimension, so the vectors keep more detail about each code."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Reciprocal rank fusion scores each document by summing 1/(k + rank) over the lists it appears in, with k = 60 in the original paper. It is simple and robust, which is why most vector databases offer hybrid search with it or with a weighted combination of scores.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Reciprocal Rank Fusion outperforms Condorcet and individual Rank Learning Methods","authors":"Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. 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Reranking often brings large gains for little engineering effort, since it slots in after retrieval with no re-indexing and decides which few candidates reach the generator.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Passage Re-ranking with BERT","authors":"Rodrigo Nogueira & Kyunghyun Cho","year":2019,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04085"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks","authors":"Nils Reimers & Iryna Gurevych","year":2019,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10084"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L492","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0007","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-retrieval-0008","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"retrieval","subtopic":"ann-indexes","difficulty":"medium","stem":"In an HNSW vector index, what happens when you increase ef_search, the size of the candidate list explored at query time?","options":{"A":"Recall goes up and queries get slower, since the search explores more of the graph.","B":"Recall goes up and memory use grows, since the index stores more links per node.","C":"Queries get faster and recall drops, since the search stops after fewer steps.","D":"Nothing changes until the index is rebuilt, since ef_search is fixed at build time."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Approximate indexes trade a little recall for large speedups over exact search. In HNSW, M sets the graph's memory and, with ef_construction, its quality when it is built, and ef_search tunes the recall-latency trade-off for each query, which makes it the first knob to try when recall is too low.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs","authors":"Yu. A. Malkov & D. A. 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Where should you look first?","options":{"A":"At generation: how the model uses the retrieved passages, checking the faithfulness of wrong answers.","B":"At retrieval: switch to a better embedding model, to push the correct passage up to first place more often.","C":"At chunking: re-split the documents, since wrong answers usually come from badly cut chunks.","D":"At the index: retrieve 50 passages instead of 5, so the correct one is missed less often."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Evaluating RAG in stages pays off: measure retrieval (recall at k) and generation (faithfulness and correctness given the retrieved context) separately, then fix the weaker stage. Frameworks such as RAGAS automate these metrics, but reading 20 failures by hand usually reveals the main pattern faster.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"RAGAS: Automated Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation","authors":"Shahul Es et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15217"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts","authors":"Nelson F. Liu et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L655","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0009","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-retrieval-0010","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"retrieval","subtopic":"rag-failures","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A company's RAG assistant sometimes quotes the 2023 travel policy instead of the 2025 one, because both versions are in the index and look almost identical. What is the most direct fix?","options":{"A":"Store version and validity dates as metadata, and filter to current ones.","B":"Use a larger embedding model, which can tell the two years apart.","C":"Tell the model in the prompt to prefer the most recent policy it sees.","D":"Increase the number of retrieved chunks, so both versions reach the model."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Many RAG failures are data problems rather than model problems: outdated, duplicated or conflicting documents in the index, and Barnett et al. (2024) found that contradictory information in the context is one reason models miss the right answer. Keeping metadata such as version, date, owner and access permissions, and filtering on it, fixes them more reliably than changing prompts or models.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Seven Failure Points When Engineering a Retrieval Augmented Generation System","authors":"Scott Barnett et al.","year":2024,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05856"},{"kind":"docs","title":"Filtering","authors":"Qdrant","url":"https://qdrant.tech/documentation/search/filtering/"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L742","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0010","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-retrieval-0011","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"retrieval","subtopic":"rag-architecture","difficulty":"easy","stem":"Compared with fine-tuning a model on the same documents, what is a main advantage of RAG?","options":{"A":"Knowledge is updated by changing the index, and answers can cite their sources.","B":"Answers come out faster, since retrieval saves the model from generating text.","C":"The model's weights absorb the documents, so retrieval can be skipped later.","D":"It prevents hallucinations, since the model can only repeat the retrieved text."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Lewis et al. (2020) introduced RAG as a way to combine a model's parametric memory with an external index, and showed that swapping the index updated what the model knew. Fine-tuning is better suited to teaching a style, a format or a skill; RAG is better for facts that change or must be cited.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks","authors":"Patrick Lewis et al.","year":2020,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/retrieval.json#L823","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"retrieval-0011","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"检索增强 RAG","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-adaptation-0001","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"adaptation","subtopic":"choosing-adaptation","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A company wants its assistant to answer from a 400-page internal manual that changes every week, and to cite where each answer comes from. 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(2020) showed with GPT-3 that few-shot prompting can come close to fine-tuned models on some tasks without any update. The cost is context: the examples use tokens on every call, while fine-tuning pays once and then needs no examples in the prompt.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Language Models are Few-Shot Learners","authors":"Tom B. 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Reasoning models now produce these steps on their own, so explicit chain-of-thought prompts matter less with them.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models","authors":"Jason Wei et al.","year":2022,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903"},{"kind":"paper","title":"To CoT or not to CoT? 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Given the content-free input “N/A”, it assigns “positive” a probability of 0.70. Which explanation and fix fit both observations?","options":{"A":"The prompt biases the model toward some labels; measure it with “N/A” and rescale the probabilities.","B":"The model has not learned the task from four examples; add dozens more in the same order until accuracy stabilizes.","C":"Sampling makes the answers random; set the temperature to 0 so each prompt gives a repeatable label.","D":"“N/A” is out of distribution and says nothing about the task; ignore it and pick the best ordering on the test set."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Few-shot prompts are sensitive to the choice, order and label balance of the examples, and the model's preference for frequent or recent labels leaks into every prediction. Besides calibrating, a robust alternative is to compare several orderings on a validation set, or to average predictions across orderings.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Calibrate Before Use: Improving Few-Shot Performance of Language Models","authors":"Tony Z. 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Comparisons are easier for people to give consistently than absolute scores, which is why preference data is the basis of RLHF and of later methods such as DPO.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback","authors":"Long Ouyang et al.","year":2022,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences","authors":"Paul Christiano et al.","year":2017,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/adaptation.json#L395","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"adaptation-0006","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"微调与蒸馏","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-adaptation-0007","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"adaptation","subtopic":"dpo","difficulty":"medium","stem":"What does Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) remove from the usual RLHF pipeline?","options":{"A":"The separate reward model and the RL loop: it trains directly on preference pairs with a simple loss.","B":"The human preference data: it learns which answer is better from the model's own confidence.","C":"The supervised fine-tuning step: it starts directly from the pretrained model with no instruction data.","D":"The reference model: it lets the policy drift freely, since the preferences alone keep it on track."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Removing the reward model and PPO makes training simpler, more stable and cheaper, with results comparable to RLHF in the original experiments. The trade-off is that DPO learns only from the fixed preference dataset, while RLHF with a reward model can score new responses generated during training.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model","authors":"Rafael Rafailov et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/adaptation.json#L481","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"adaptation-0007","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"微调与蒸馏","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-adaptation-0008","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"adaptation","subtopic":"catastrophic-forgetting","difficulty":"medium","stem":"After full fine-tuning on 50,000 legal documents, a model drafts contracts well but has become noticeably worse at general questions and coding. Which change most directly reduces this loss?","options":{"A":"Mix general examples into the fine-tuning data, or train a LoRA adapter instead of all weights.","B":"Train for more epochs on the legal documents so the model consolidates what it has learned.","C":"Raise the learning rate so the model reaches the new optimum before it has time to forget.","D":"Add a system prompt that reminds the model it also knows about other subjects."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"This is catastrophic forgetting: gradient updates for the new task also change weights that supported the old ones. Biderman et al. (2024) found that LoRA learns less of a new domain than full fine-tuning but also forgets less, so the choice depends on how much general ability matters.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less","authors":"Dan Biderman et al.","year":2024,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09673"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks","authors":"James Kirkpatrick et al.","year":2017,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00796"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/adaptation.json#L560","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"adaptation-0008","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"微调与蒸馏","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-adaptation-0009","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"adaptation","subtopic":"distillation","difficulty":"easy","stem":"In knowledge distillation, what does the small student model learn from the large teacher?","options":{"A":"The teacher's full probabilities over the outputs, not only its top answer.","B":"A copy of the teacher's weights, pruned to fit the student's size.","C":"The teacher's training data, which the student sees in a different order.","D":"The teacher's architecture, which the student reproduces with fewer layers."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"A teacher that gives 0.7 to “cat”, 0.25 to “dog” and 0.05 to “car” tells the student that cats look more like dogs than like cars, something a one-hot label cannot. For LLMs the same idea is applied to next-token distributions, or more simply by fine-tuning a small model on text generated by a large one.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network","authors":"Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals & Jeff Dean","year":2015,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/adaptation.json#L647","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"adaptation-0009","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"微调与蒸馏","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-phenomena-0002","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"phenomena","subtopic":"lost-in-the-middle","difficulty":"medium","stem":"Your RAG system passes 20 retrieved passages to the model, and the most relevant one usually lands in position 10. 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After training, it sometimes edits or deletes failing tests instead of fixing the code. Which change addresses the cause most directly?","options":{"A":"Compute the reward with hidden, read-only tests, and penalize any change to test files.","B":"Train for longer, so the agent eventually learns that fixing the code is the intended behavior.","C":"Add a line to the prompt stating clearly that editing or deleting tests is not allowed.","D":"Reward the agent according to the number of tests left in the repository after its changes."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"This is reward hacking, or specification gaming: the reward measures a proxy (the tests pass) instead of the goal (the bug is fixed), and optimization finds the gap. 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Which transformer family is the most natural fit?","options":{"A":"An encoder-only model like BERT, which reads the whole text in both directions.","B":"A decoder-only model like GPT, which predicts the next token from left to right.","C":"An encoder-decoder model like T5, which generates the category name as output text.","D":"A diffusion model, which refines a noisy representation of the text step by step."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"The three families come from the original transformer: the encoder (BERT) for understanding tasks, the decoder (GPT) for generation, and both together (T5) for text-to-text tasks such as translation. Large decoder-only LLMs can handle all three, but for a narrow task with latency limits a small encoder is usually the cheaper choice.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding","authors":"Jacob Devlin et al.","year":2019,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer","authors":"Colin Raffel et al.","year":2020,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10683"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/architectures.json#L257","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"architectures-0004","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-architectures-0005","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"architectures","subtopic":"moe","difficulty":"medium","stem":"A mixture-of-experts model has 47 billion parameters in total but uses about 13 billion per token, with 8 experts per layer and 2 active for each token. How does it compare with a dense 13-billion-parameter model?","options":{"A":"Similar compute per token, but memory for all 47 billion parameters.","B":"Similar compute and memory, since inactive experts are not loaded.","C":"Similar memory, but about 3.6 times more compute per token.","D":"The same compute and memory as a dense 47-billion-parameter model."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"These numbers match Mixtral 8x7B, which has 46.7B parameters and 12.9B active per token. MoE lets a model store more knowledge for the same compute per token; the costs are memory, communication between devices that hold different experts, and training tricks to stop the router from overusing a few experts.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Mixtral of Experts","authors":"Albert Q. Jiang et al.","year":2024,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04088"},{"kind":"paper","title":"Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer","authors":"Noam Shazeer et al.","year":2017,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/architectures.json#L343","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"architectures-0005","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"大模型应用开发","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-evaluation-0006","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"evaluation","subtopic":"llm-evaluation","difficulty":"hard","stem":"You use an LLM as a judge to compare answers from two systems. When you swap the order in which the two answers are shown, the judge's preference flips in 35% of cases. What is the best way to keep comparing with this judge?","options":{"A":"Judge each pair in both orders, count a win only when both agree, and treat the rest as ties.","B":"Show the answers in a fixed order, so the bias is at least the same for both systems.","C":"Ask the judge for longer explanations, since reasoning removes positional bias.","D":"Use a judge from the same model family as one of the systems, since it knows that style best."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"Zheng et al. (2023) documented position, verbosity and self-enhancement biases in LLM judges, and proposed swapping positions as a mitigation. Before trusting a judge, measure its agreement with human labels on a sample; a judge that flips 35% of the time when answers are swapped needs that check more than most.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena","authors":"Lianmin Zheng et al.","year":2023,"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05685"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions/blob/7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0/questions/evaluation.json#L388","source_repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","source_commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0","original_id":"evaluation-0006","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","author":"Cristobal Santana","changes":"English fields selected; keys uppercased; original text unchanged","publisher":"Cristobal Santana","repository":"https://github.com/CristobalSantana/ai-ml-questions","commit":"7a32c59c0e58d626df29d42d4fef0fff3d24d6a0"},"verification":"与 CC BY-SA 4.0 仓库原文结构对应；原仓库标为 LLM draft；未逐题独立核实技术事实，非 ACP 考试题","knowledge_area":"生产交付与评测","knowledge_area_method":"来源主题与题干映射"},{"id":"cs-evaluation-0007","certification":"非 ACP 原题；仅供大模型工程知识拓展","kind":"开放许可AI工程练习","type":"single_choice","topic":"evaluation","subtopic":"statistical-testing","difficulty":"medium","stem":"On the same 500 test examples, model A scores 85.0% accuracy and model B scores 85.6%. What is the most reasonable conclusion?","options":{"A":"The gap is within noise; a paired McNemar test is the right way to check it.","B":"B is better, since any improvement measured on the same test set is real.","C":"A is better, since a difference this small can only come from overfitting by B.","D":"They are identical, since differences below 1 point have no practical meaning."},"answer":["A"],"explanation":"With 500 examples, the 95% confidence interval for an accuracy near 85% spans about ±3 points. A paired test is sharper, but here B's net gain is only 3 examples: even the most lopsided split of the disagreements, 3 to 0, gives an exact McNemar p-value of 0.25, and with 21 disagreements the split would be 12 to 9 (p ≈ 0.66). Detecting gains under a point takes thousands of examples.","reference_sources":[{"kind":"paper","title":"Approximate Statistical Tests for Comparing Supervised Classification Learning Algorithms","authors":"Thomas G. 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