Benchmarking
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Indexes for a Code-Search Startup
You receive a 5 M-vector sample (768-dim, float32) and a 1,000-query labeled benchmark with ground-truth top-50 neighbors per query. Index the same sample in Chroma (HNSW), Qdra…
- Ann Indexes
- Hnsw
- Benchmarking
Vector Databases and Embeddings - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Stereo Depth Methods for a Drone Inspection Startup
You receive 500 calibrated stereo pairs from a turbine inspection plus sparse LiDAR ground truth on each pair. Implement (or wrap) three depth estimators: OpenCV Semi-Global Mat…
- Stereo Depth Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- Model Evaluation
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - ResearchIntermediateNew
Compare Kernel Methods to Trees on a Genomics Classification Task
You receive a curated benchmark of about 12,000 labeled variants with ~120 numerical + ~40 string features. Fit kernel SVMs (RBF, polynomial, string), random forest, and XGBoost…
- Kernel Methods
- Svm
- Tree Ensembles
Statistical Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Evaluate OS-Level Containment for a Multi-Tenant Edge Platform
Set up reproducible environments for gVisor, Firecracker, and Wasmtime on identical hardware (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM). Run the platform's 4 workload archetypes (anonymized): API proxy…
- Containment
- Virtualization
- Wasm
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Randomized Sketch Algorithm for Stream Cardinality
Read the HLL paper (Flajolet et al., 2007) and a sample of 30 minutes of customer trace IDs (around 80M events). Implement HLL from scratch in Go (no library imports). Run bench…
- Randomized Algorithms
- Sketching
- Algorithm Analysis
Advanced Algorithms - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Evaluate an Agent Suite on the SWE-Bench-Style Coding Benchmark
You receive a sandboxed set of 50 small repo-modification tasks (test-passing as the success signal). Run 3 open-source agent frameworks (e.g., OpenHands, SWE-agent, and Aider) …
- Ai Agents
- Agent Evaluation
- Benchmarking
AI Agents and LLM-Based Agents - AnalysisIntermediateNew
ODE Integrator Benchmark for a Pharma PK/PD Pipeline
Use SciPy's solve_ivp + SUNDIALS (via scikit-sundae or diffeqpy) to benchmark: RK45 (baseline), LSODA, BDF (CVODE), Radau, and Rosenbrock. Run on three model classes (insulin-gl…
- Numerical Odes
- Stiff Integrators
- Scientific Python
Scientific Computing and Numerical Methods - CodeIntermediateNew
Restore Smartphone Low-Light Photos for a Consumer AI App
You receive 200 paired low-light / well-lit phone photos plus 1,000 unpaired low-light photos. Build a pipeline that combines a learned denoiser (e.g. a small DnCNN-style model …
- Image Restoration
- Denoising
- Tone Mapping
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Profile a Spark Job at Scale and Cut the Bill in Half
Receive the PySpark job (around 1,800 lines), 5 nights of Spark UI + EMR metrics, and the EMR cluster config. Profile to find the top 3 cost drivers (likely candidates: skewed j…
- Apache Spark
- Finops & Cost Optimization
- Etl Pipelines
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement a Persistent Immutable List for a Collaborative-Editing Startup
Implement in Python (or TypeScript / Kotlin). Build a persistent immutable list with operations: get, set, append, pop, slice, concat. Use structural sharing (32-way vector trie…
- Data Abstraction
- Recursion
- Persistent Data Structures
Programming Abstractions - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a 5-Stage Pipelined RISC-V Core in Verilog
Implement the 5-stage pipeline with: hazard detection unit, forwarding paths (EX/MEM to EX, MEM/WB to EX), pipeline stalls for load-use hazards, and a simple static branch-not-t…
- Pipelining
- Hazard Detection
- Verilog
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Spectral Clustering for Customer Segmentation at a SaaS
Receive a 12,000 customer × 220 feature usage matrix (counts per feature per week, averaged over 12 weeks). Construct a similarity graph (k-nearest-neighbors with k=15, Gaussian…
- Spectral Methods
- Linear Algebra
- Algorithm Analysis
Advanced Algorithms - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Queue for an Event Bus
Implement an MPSC (multi-producer single-consumer) ring-buffer queue in Go using atomic operations only — no mutexes. Prove correctness with the Go race detector across 8 produc…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Lock Free Programming
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Data Structures - CodeIntermediateNew
Index a Genomics Dataset with a Suffix Array for Read Matching
Implement a suffix array over a 720 MB DNA sequence (4-character alphabet) using DC3 (Difference Cover modulo 3) or SA-IS construction in Rust. Build pattern-matching utilities …
- Suffix Arrays
- String Algorithms
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Data Structures - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Warehouse Pick Routes with a Classical Planner
You receive a stylized warehouse map (aisle graph), 30 sample shifts of pick tasks, and the current heuristic's outputs. Write a PDDL domain + problem generator, solve with at l…
- Pddl Modeling
- State Space Search
- Classical Planning
Automated Planning - DesignIntermediateNew
Wireless Sensor-Network Design for a Vineyard Microclimate Study
Spec the network: 60 LoRaWAN sensor nodes + 2 gateways (TheThingsStack indoor + outdoor gateway choice), star topology with possible relays. Node hardware: ESP32 + LoRa + sensor…
- Sensor Networks
- Embedded Systems
- Lorawan
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - ResearchIntermediateNew
Planning Under Uncertainty for a Last-Mile Delivery Fleet
Build a simulator of the 50-block area with stochastic travel times conditioned on weather and time-of-day. Implement value iteration (for a small state space), MCTS (Monte Carl…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Markov Decision Processes
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
Automated Planning - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement an SSA-Based Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation Pass
Read the IR specification (SSA form, phi nodes, typed values). Implement SCCP as a single combined worklist algorithm operating on the SSA lattice (top / constant / bottom) and …
- Static Single Assignment
- Dataflow Analysis
- Constant Propagation
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate a Legacy Warehouse to a Lakehouse for an Edtech AI Platform
You receive a Postgres dump of around 50 GB and the current dbt models that produce the student-attempts mart. Land the raw data in object storage (S3 or GCS) as Parquet partiti…
- Lakehouse Architecture
- Delta Lake
- Apache Spark
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Tune a Multicore Pipeline with NUMA-Aware Sharding
Receive the current worker (Rust, around 8,000 lines, uses rayon for its parallelism), the host (2-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 64 cores total, 384GB DDR5), and a benchmark query workl…
- Parallel Performance
- Numa
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit BLEU vs. COMET on a Multilingual Customer-Support Corpus
You receive 600 source-translation-reference triples covering 6 languages (EN as source; ES/FR/DE/JA/PT-BR/HI as targets), each scored on adequacy and fluency (1-6) by 3 profess…
- Mt Evaluation
- Neural Mt
- Statistical Analysis
Machine Translation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Large-Scale Spark Job for an Ad-Tech Platform
You receive the Spark job source (PySpark), the EMR cluster config, and 5 nights of job-history JSON. Profile the job with the Spark UI + EMR metrics, identify the top 3 cost dr…
- Spark Optimization
- Cloud Services
- Cost Engineering
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Federated Learning for a Government Statistics Office
Use Flower as the FL framework. Simulate 8 municipalities each with a partition of a synthetic wage dataset (provided, 1M rows, EU-Labour-Force-Survey schema). Train a gradient-…
- Federated Learning
- Differential Privacy
- Python Or Javascript
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