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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Canary Rollout for a Production Recommender
Pick a serving stack (Triton, Seldon Core, KServe, or BentoML). Implement two-model traffic splitting with a configurable percentage (start at 5%). Wire up online metric collect…
- Canary Deployment
- Kubernetes
- Ab Testing
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Automate Retraining with a Drift-Triggered MLflow Pipeline
Stand up the pipeline end to end with the team's existing stack (MLflow tracking + model registry, Airflow orchestration). Wire Evidently to compute weekly drift; when drift cro…
- Mlflow
- Airflow
- Data Drift Detection
ML Engineering and Production ML - 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
Multi-Agent Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a LangGraph Multi-Agent Researcher
Design the four-agent topology with explicit message contracts. Implement each agent as a separate LLM call with role-specific system prompts, tool access (web search for resear…
- Multi Agent Orchestration
- Langgraph
- LLM Tool Use
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vision-Language Search for an E-commerce Catalog
Pick a vision-language encoder (OpenCLIP, SigLIP, or BLIP-2 image-text variant). Index all 600k product images into a vector database (Qdrant/FAISS). Build a query-time pipeline…
- Vision Language Models
- Clip
- Vector Search
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization Pipeline
Build the pipeline: face detection + active-speaker detection on video, voice-activity detection + speaker embeddings on audio, then a fusion step that ties tracks to detected f…
- Audio Visual Fusion
- Speaker Diarization
- Active Speaker Detection
Multimodal Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Multilingual Customer-Email Classifier
You receive 28,000 labeled emails (skewed toward English and Mandarin). Try at least two approaches: (1) a fine-tuned multilingual transformer (XLM-RoBERTa or mDeBERTa) and (2) …
- Text Classification
- Multilingual NLP
- Transformers
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Domain-Specific Named-Entity Recognizer for Legal Contracts
Start from a strong English NER base (spaCy transformer or LegalBERT). Fine-tune on a provided 1,200-contract labeled dataset for the 9 entity types. Handle long contracts (ofte…
- Named Entity Recognition
- Sequence Labeling
- Domain Adaptation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Adapt Machine Translation to a Niche Domain
Pick an open MT base (NLLB-200 or a strong open M2M model). Build a parallel corpus of around 8,000 sentence pairs from the company's bilingual safety standards. Fine-tune on th…
- Machine Translation
- Domain Adaptation
- Transformers
Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Parse and Structure Clinical Discharge Summaries
Combine traditional NLP (section segmentation, sentence parsing) with LLM extraction (small open model + structured-output enforcement). Build the pipeline so every extracted fi…
- Structured Extraction
- Clinical NLP
- Parsing
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Small Transformer from Scratch and Train It on Code
Implement multi-head self-attention, RMSNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and a causal LM head from scratch — no Hugging Face shortcuts for the model code (you may use Hugging…
- Transformers
- Self Attention
- Pytorch
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Code-Doc Generation
Take a small base model (CodeT5+ or a distilled CodeLlama-Instruct). Build the dataset by mining around 8,000 high-quality function-docstring pairs from permissively-licensed Py…
- Seq2seq
- Transformers
- Lora Fine Tuning
Neural Networks for NLP - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Cross-Lingual Retrieval-Augmented QA System
Index around 5,000 internal-knowledge docs across the three languages using a multilingual embedding model (e.g., multilingual-e5 or BGE-M3). Build the retrieval-then-answer pip…
- RAG
- Cross Lingual Retrieval
- Multilingual Embeddings
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Generate Synthetic Tabular Data with Privacy Guarantees
Implement DP synthetic data generation: either DP-CTGAN, PATE-GAN, or a marginal-based DP method like PrivBayes / MWEM. Train on the real dataset (around 200,000 transactions, 1…
- Synthetic Data
- Differential Privacy
- Generative Models
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Diagnose Equipment Failures with a Bayesian Network
You receive 90 days of sensor logs (vibration, spindle temperature, coolant flow, ambient humidity), the maintenance log of 180 failure events labeled by root cause, and a short…
- Bayesian Networks
- Probabilistic Inference
- Parameter Learning
Probabilistic Graphical Models - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Gaussian Process Regression for Wind Farm Power Curves
You receive 12 months of 10-minute SCADA data (wind speed, air temperature, power output) for 30 representative turbines, plus the manufacturer's published curve. Fit a GP with …
- Gaussian Processes
- Kernel Methods
- Uncertainty Quantification
Open coursework - 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
- Ab Testing
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Variational Autoencoder for Synthetic Tabular Banking Data
You receive a 500K-row anonymized transaction dataset with 25 columns (mixed numerical + categorical). Train a VAE (TabVAE or a small custom model) with appropriate likelihoods …
- Variational Inference
- Deep Generative Models
- Synthetic Data
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Prompt-Injection Hardening for a Customer-Support Agent
You receive the current agent prompt, the pen-tester's 60-attack injection test set (direct prompt injection, indirect via doc content, refusal-bypass, and exfiltration), and a …
- Prompt Injection Defense
- System Prompt Design
- Red Teaming
Prompt Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
ReAct Agent for Legal-Research Tool-Use
You receive 30 research questions with paralegal-written gold answers and citation lists, plus stubbed implementations of the 4 tools (you do not need to build retrieval — just …
- React Prompting
- Tool Use
- Agent Design
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