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ML Engineering & MLOps Challenges
ML Engineering & MLOps challenges put you inside the work of getting models out of notebooks and into production. You'll develop skills in building ML Pipelines, Model Packaging and Model Deployment, and understanding the gap between Training vs Serving, while tracking work in MLflow.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Model Monitoring, Drift detection & auto-retraining, Kubeflow pipelines, Edge Deployment, and ONNX optimization — running Weights & Biases experiment tracking and Production ML deployment the way real MLOps teams do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Prototype a Computer-Vision QA Tool for a Robotics Manufacturer
As a 4-person team, build: (1) a labeling pipeline on around 2,000 component images (Label Studio is fine); (2) a transfer-learned classifier or a small segmentation model that …
- Computer Vision
- Transfer Learning
- Model Deployment
AI Software Engineering Group Project - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Differentially Private Classifier on Medical Records
Use Opacus (PyTorch DP-SGD library). Train a tabular classifier (small MLP + gradient-boosted features) with DP-SGD at the agreed epsilon/delta. Run an accuracy-vs-privacy front…
- Differential Privacy
- Dp Sgd
- Opacus
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Structured Prediction for Insurance Claim Triage
You receive 18,000 historical claims with text, attachments-count, claim amount, customer tenure, and the ground-truth final routing bucket. Train a structured classifier (e.g.,…
- Structured Prediction
- Multi Class Classification
- Model Evaluation
Advanced Machine Learning Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Bayesian Credit-Scoring Model for an Emerging-Markets Fintech
You receive an anonymized snapshot of about 30,000 historical applications with features (income proxy, tenure on platform, prior loans, region) and the binary default outcome. …
- Bayesian Learning
- Credit Scoring
- Model Evaluation
Advanced Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark NPUs for an Autonomous Forklift Vision Stack
You receive ONNX exports of the 3 production models, a labeled validation set of 2,000 forklift-camera frames, and developer-kit access to three NPU candidates (anonymized as NP…
- Edge Inference
- Npu Benchmarking
- Onnx
Edge ML and On-Device Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
Machine Learning in Practice - CodeBeginnerNew
Build an Embedding-Based Semantic Search for a Legal-Document Corpus
Embed the 380k-document corpus using a multilingual sentence-transformer (e.g. multilingual MPNet or LaBSE). Store embeddings in FAISS or pgvector. Build a search service that r…
- Deep Learning
- Ml Applications
- Python Programming
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Sequence Model for Sign-Language Word Recognition
You receive about 12,000 short (1-3s) webcam clips covering a 50-word vocabulary, with body+hand pose features pre-extracted (e.g., MediaPipe Holistic landmarks per frame). Buil…
- Sequence Models
- Transformer
- Pose Estimation
Machine Perception - CodeBeginnerNew
Predict Subscription Churn for an EdTech Platform
You receive a CSV with about 18,000 student-month rows: features include login frequency, session length, quiz scores, parent app opens, and plan tier. The target is whether the…
- Supervised Learning
- Logistic Regression
- Gradient Boosting
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Variant-Calling Pipeline for a Genomics SaaS
Stand up a Nextflow pipeline covering: read trimming, BWA-MEM alignment, duplicate marking, base-quality-score recalibration, GATK HaplotypeCaller variant calling, and variant f…
- Bioinformatics
- Variant Calling
- Workflow Orchestration
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Credit-Card Fraud Detector for a Singapore Neobank
You receive 9 months of anonymized authorization data (around 8 million transactions, around 0.4 percent fraud) plus current rule outcomes. Split temporally and train at least t…
- Classification Modeling
- Class Imbalance
- Model Calibration
AI and Quantitative Finance Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Train a Word-Alignment Model for Low-Resource Catalan-Aranese
You receive a 35,000-sentence Catalan-Aranese parallel corpus plus a 1,200-pair manually annotated word-alignment test set. Train (1) a classic statistical alignment baseline (e…
- Alignment
- Neural Mt
- Low Resource Mt
Machine Translation - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer-Segmentation Study for a DTC Subscription Box
Use 18 months of anonymized data: order history, churn events, NPS responses, box-rating data, referral activity, marketing-channel attribution. Engineer features (RFM-style + b…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Python Programming
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Chest-X-Ray Deployment Audit Across Hospital Sites
You receive (1) a vendor-supplied multi-label chest-X-ray classifier, (2) the current single-site held-out evaluation set, (3) a 12,000-image multi-site evaluation set with 14-f…
- Medical Imaging
- Classification
- Model Evaluation
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Design a Churn-Prediction and Retention Model for TaskFlow
Using the TaskFlow customer dataset and the VP's framing memo (both provided), design and document a churn-prediction model. Perform exploratory analysis to surface patterns and…
- Logistic Regression
- Classification
- Feature Engineering
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Defect Detection on PCBs for a Hardware-AI Manufacturer
Use the publicly-available PCB defect dataset (e.g., DeepPCB or HRIPCB). Fine-tune a small object detector (YOLOv8n or RT-DETR-small) on the 6 defect classes. Evaluate mean Aver…
- Object Detection
- Transfer Learning
- Model Evaluation
Computer Vision - DesignIntermediateNew
Instrument a Model Monitoring Stack from Scratch
Pick the priority product (recommend the customer-service RAG assistant, around 40k queries/day). Define monitoring signals: input drift (Evidently/NannyML), output quality (LLM…
- Model Monitoring
- Data Drift Detection
- LLM Evaluation
ML Engineering and Production ML - ResearchIntermediateNew
Multi-Task Learning for a Healthtech Triage Model
You receive 40,000 anonymized de-identified intake-form records with two labels: urgency tier (4 classes) and routed sub-specialty (12 classes). Train (1) two independent classi…
- Multi Task Learning
- Transfer Learning
- Transformer
Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Multi-Task Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Long-Context QA Evaluation Benchmark for Legal Memoranda
You receive 25 anonymized legal memoranda (50-90 pages each) and 100 QA pairs whose answers are deliberately spread across the documents (25 in pages 1-20, 25 in pages 20-40, 25…
- Long Context Qa
- Benchmark Design
- Model Evaluation
Question Answering and Conversational Systems - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Three-Tier Pricing Proposal for an Observability Startup
Using the anonymized customer export and the current-pricing memo in the provided materials, design a replacement pricing model and prove it pays. First, analyze the 80 customer…
- Pricing Strategy
- Packaging
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Reduce Dimensionality on Sensor Streams for a Mid-Cap Robotics OEM
You receive 120 robot-hours of windowed sensor data (5s windows, 240 channels) with labels for normal vs. one of four fault classes. Implement (1) PCA, (2) kernel PCA with an RB…
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Kernel Methods
- Autoencoders
Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Fairness Evaluation Harness for a Credit-Score Model
Implement a Python module that, given model predictions, ground truth, and group identifiers, computes demographic parity difference, equal-opportunity difference, predictive-pa…
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Statistical Evaluation
- Python
AI Measurement and Evaluation - CodeIntermediateNew
Triage Medical-Imaging Annotations with a Small Vision Model
Train a binary normal/abnormal classifier on the public CheXpert or NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset. Use temperature scaling to calibrate the output, then define abstention thresholds …
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Calibration
Applied Machine Learning
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