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Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmark for a Robotics R&D Lab
Use a curated 200-image household scene set (publicly-available HM3D renderings or COCO + a handful of household prompts). Benchmark 3 open-vocabulary segmentation models: SAM +…
- Open Vocabulary Segmentation
- Vision Language Models
- Benchmarking
Computer Vision - 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 - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Add Constant Folding and Dead Code Elimination to a Toy Compiler
Fork the repo, read the IR specification (3-address code, register-based, documented in /docs/ir.md). Implement constant folding as an IR-to-IR pass: any operation on literal op…
- Intermediate Representation
- Constant Folding
- Dead Code Elimination
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Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
Information Retrieval and Search - CodeBeginnerNew
Quantize a Vision Model for a Smart-Doorbell SoC
You receive a trained FP32 PyTorch person-detector (mAP 0.74 on a 5k validation set) plus a calibration dataset of 500 unlabeled doorbell frames. Convert to ONNX, then apply pos…
- Quantization
- Model Optimization
- Onnx Optimization
Edge ML and On-Device Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Legacy C Image Pipeline from x86 to ARM64
Clone the 12k-line C codebase (provided). Set up an ARM64 cross-compile toolchain (clang or gcc). Identify portability issues: endianness assumptions, pointer-size casts, inline…
- C Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Imperative and Low-Level Programming - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Long-Context Architectures on a Legal-Doc Retrieval Task
You receive a public legal-QA dataset (e.g., LongBench's legal split or similar) filtered to documents over 50,000 tokens. Implement or wrap 3 architectures: a sliding-window Tr…
- Long Context Architectures
- State Space Models
- Hugging Face Transformers
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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.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design a Custom Page-Replacement Policy for a Tier-1 Cloud Provider Simulator
Use the provided simulator (Python harness wrapping a C++ page-cache model) and the team's 3 anonymized workload traces (web-cache, key-value store, batch analytics). Implement …
- Memory Management
- Page Replacement
- Benchmarking
Operating Systems - CodeBeginnerNew
Greedy Algorithm for Delivery-Slot Assignment
Receive 14 days of order data (around 4,800 orders) with timestamps, addresses (already geocoded), and slot preferences, plus rider rosters with shift starts, ends, and max work…
- Greedy Algorithms
- Algorithm Analysis
- Python Or Javascript
Algorithm Design and Analysis - 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
Computer Architecture - CodeSeniorNew
Vectorize a Risk-Calculation Engine for a Mid-Cap Bank
Receive the existing pricer (C++17, scalar, around 600 lines), 2 weeks of representative input data (around 50M paths), the validation harness, and access to an Intel Ice Lake-S…
- Vectorization
- Avx 512
- Simd
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Min-Cost Max-Flow for Cloud Workload Placement
Receive 30 days of anonymized placement requests (workload CPU/memory shape, affinity rules), zone capacity per day, and cross-zone bandwidth costs. Model the placement as a min…
- Network Flows
- Algorithm Analysis
- Graph Algorithms
Advanced Algorithms - 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 - ResearchSeniorNew
Implement an Autoregressive Model for Anonymized Voice-Synthesis at a Defense Vendor
You receive a public-domain speech dataset (LibriTTS subset, around 50 speakers) and a fixed evaluation protocol (speaker-identifiability AUC, emotion-preservation MOS proxy, in…
- Autoregressive Models
- Voice Conversion
- Speech Synthesis
Deep Generative Models - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Choose a Hash Table vs Trie for a URL-Shortener Cache
Implement (1) a hash-table cache with linear probing and (2) a compressed trie cache, both with the same eviction policy (LRU). Measure (a) p50/p99 lookup latency, (b) memory fo…
- Hash Tables
- Trie Data Structure
- Benchmarking
Data Structures - CodeBeginnerNew
Shortest-Path Routing for a Bike-Share Operator
Receive the graph (nodes with lat/lon/elevation, edges with length and slope) and 50 origin-destination test pairs. Implement Dijkstra's algorithm with a custom edge-weight func…
- Graph Algorithms
- Dijkstra
- Algorithm Analysis
Algorithm Design and Analysis - CodeSeniorNew
Architecture Patterns Spike for a Real-Time Multiplayer Backend
Implement minimal viable versions of all three patterns in Rust + Go (your pick of split): (1) authoritative server with 20 Hz snapshots and client-side prediction, (2) lockstep…
- Realtime Systems
- Architecture Spike
- Networking Patterns
Software Architecture - CodeSeniorNew
Auto-Vectorize an Inner Loop for AVX-512
Profile the existing kernel on a 12-dataset benchmark (provided). Pick one of two strategies: (a) add an LLVM IR-level vectorization pass plugged into the existing pipeline, or …
- Vectorization
- Llvm
- Loop Optimization
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - ResearchIntermediateNew
Lab Project: Compare Three Architectures on Your Own Mini-Benchmark
Scope the problem yourself (suggested examples: sentiment classification on a niche domain, tabular anomaly detection, time-series forecasting on a public dataset). Define the t…
- Experimental Design
- A/B Testing With Statistical Significance
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Branch Predictor Study for a Cryptocurrency Hashing Library
Profile the hot inner loop with perf record + perf annotate to identify the 5 highest-frequency branches. Measure per-branch mispredict counts using perf counters (BR_MISP_RETIR…
- Branch Prediction
- Performance Counters
- Benchmarking
Computer Architecture - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Visual SLAM Stacks for an Indoor Delivery Robot
You receive 8 indoor rosbag recordings (about 90 minutes total) captured by the robot's stereo camera + Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) plus ground-truth trajectories from an ex…
- Visual Slam
- Sensor Fusion
- Trajectory Evaluation
Robot Perception and Autonomy - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech-to-Text Quality for a Contact-Center Analytics Vendor
You receive 200 anonymized call-recording snippets (2-4 minutes each, ~67 per language) with reference transcripts plus a domain glossary of about 600 product terms. Run all thr…
- Speech Recognition
- Sequence Models
- Model Evaluation
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