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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Hybrid Recommender for a Niche Consumer-AI Music App
You receive listening events (around 240 million plays) plus a content embedding per track (audio + curator tags). Build a collaborative filtering model (ALS or implicit-feedbac…
- Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering
- Content Based Filtering
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Inventory Replenishment as an MDP for an E-Commerce AI Startup
You receive 18 months of daily demand for 50 representative SKUs at one warehouse plus lead-time and unit-cost data. For one SKU at a time, formulate an MDP with state = (on-han…
- Mdp Modeling
- Value Iteration
- Dynamic Programming
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize Stop-Loss Policies with Dynamic Programming at a Quant Fund
You receive five years of daily PnL series for 12 momentum strategies plus a small set of state features (rolling vol, drawdown, regime indicator). Calibrate a discrete Markov m…
- Dynamic Programming
- Backward Induction
- State Modeling
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Simulate Hospital Bed Allocation for a Healthtech Decision Support Pilot
You receive 12 months of anonymized admissions and discharges data plus ward layouts (medicine, surgery, ICU, geriatrics) and a small set of clinical transfer rules. Build a dis…
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Simpy
- Policy Comparison
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Score Compliance Risk for an Enterprise AI Rollout Pipeline
You will design a compliance-risk scoring methodology covering 8 attributes (data residency, model provider, retention policy, PII handling, audit trail, encryption, third-party…
- Risk Scoring
- Compliance Modeling
- Decision Support Systems
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Use Actor-Critic to Auto-Tune a HVAC Control Policy
You receive a Sinergym wrapper around the EnergyPlus model of one floor with 8 thermal zones, weather data for one year, and occupancy schedules. Train a Soft Actor-Critic (SAC,…
- Actor Critic
- Soft Actor Critic
- Continuous Control
Deep Reinforcement Learning - DesignIntermediateNew
NSGA-II Multi-Objective Design for an Edtech Curriculum Recommender
You receive a synthetic student cohort (300 students with skill profiles), a content catalog (around 1,200 items with difficulty + duration + topic tags), and a simulator that e…
- Nsga Ii
- Multi Objective Optimization
- Metaheuristics
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - CodeIntermediateNew
Teach a Warehouse Cobot from Operator Demonstrations
You receive a simulated UR5e cobot in PyBullet, plus 12 example demonstrations of two kitting sequences. Implement Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs — a classic LfD technique th…
- Learning From Demonstration
- Dynamic Movement Primitives
- Human Robot Interaction
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Customer 360 Graph for a Cross-Border Fintech
You receive 500 sample customer records across CRM, payments core, and KYC systems, plus a 50-record entity-resolution benchmark (pairs labelled same/different). Design an OWL o…
- Customer 360
- Entity Resolution
- Owl Ontology
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate a Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Recommender
You receive permission to use the public MovieLens 1M dataset plus a derived item-KG (movie -> genre, director, decade) built from Wikidata. Train two recommenders: a matrix-fac…
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Recommender Systems
- Benchmarking
Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare ML Compiler Stacks on a Vision Backbone
Take a frozen ResNet-50 (or similar) in ONNX. Compile and benchmark it via TensorRT on Jetson + GPU, ONNX Runtime on all three, OpenVINO on x86 CPU, and IREE on ARM if time allo…
- Ml Compilers
- Tensorrt
- Onnx Optimization
Machine Learning Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Negotiation Protocol for Trading Agents
Choose a negotiation framework (alternating-offers Rubinstein, monotonic concession, or auction-based) and justify against the freight use case. Implement a simulator in Python …
- Agent Negotiation
- Game Theory
- Multi Agent Systems
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Multimodal Classifier for Medical Triage
Pick a fusion architecture (early fusion via cross-attention, late fusion via score combination, or a unified multimodal encoder like FLAVA/CoCa). Train on the 14,000 pairs with…
- Multimodal Fusion
- Cross Attention
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Multimodal Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Federated Learning Prototype Across Two Hospitals
Simulate two sites with non-IID data splits (one site skews older, the other younger). Implement FedAvg using Flower (or PySyft). Run for at least 50 communication rounds; repor…
- Federated Learning
- Fedavg
- Secure Aggregation
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Model Patient Pathways with a Hidden Markov Model
You receive de-identified monthly summaries for 8,000 diabetic patients, each row coding the count of primary-care visits, specialist visits, ER visits, new medications, and HbA…
- Hidden Markov Models
- Em Algorithm
- Time Series Modeling
Probabilistic Graphical Models - AnalysisIntermediateNew
MCMC for Conversion-Funnel A/B Testing at a Marketplace
You receive 6 weeks of per-visitor funnel data (visit, sign-up, trial start, trial-to-paid conversion) split by variant and by acquisition channel (organic, paid social, paid se…
- Mcmc
- Bayesian Hierarchical Models
- A/B Testing
Probabilistic Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Scale Feature Pipelines for a Hyperscaler Search-Ranking Team
You receive a synthetic-but-realistic 80 GB sample of the ranking events plus the existing Spark pipeline (PySpark) and a Spark UI snapshot from a recent production run. Profile…
- Apache Spark
- Distributed Systems Design
- Performance Profiling
Machine Learning at Scale - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Auditing Bias in a Fintech Credit Scoring Model
Conduct a quantitative fairness audit using a public proxy dataset (e.g., the UCI Adult or Give Me Some Credit dataset re-framed as BNPL decisions) and apply at least three fair…
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Ai Audit
- Regulatory Analysis
AI, Ethics and Society - StrategyIntermediateNew
Scaling PLG to Enterprise: A 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are a growth strategist at TaskFlow. Your task is to propose a strategy to acquire enterprise customers without alienating the existing PLG base. Constraints: limited sales …
- Product Led Growth
- Enterprise Sales
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
Digital Strategy and Platforms - DesignIntermediateNew
Financial Model for a SaaS Scale-Up's PLG to Enterprise Shift
You are part of a 3-person financial modeling team. TaskFlow provides project management software and currently has 10,000 free users and 500 paying customers (ACV $1,200). The …
- Saas Metrics
- Revenue Modeling
- Excel Dashboard
Financial Modeling
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