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Talk about your research. Explain the attention mechanism and positional encodings of the transformer. Write down the formula of positional encodings. Explain graph laplacian and laplacian positional encodings for graph transformers.
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Applied Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jul 25, 2023

Talk about your research. Explain the attention mechanism and positional encodings of the transformer. Write down the formula of positional encodings. Explain graph laplacian and laplacian positional encodings for graph transformers.

DSA-An easy leetcode problem based on greedy algorithm.Usage of priority queue was there.sECOND QUESTION WAS OF MULTI SOURCE BFS.In the second round, they asked mainly on my projects and basic of ml like bias , variance trade off,random forest,some CNN architectures like ResNet, VGG etc.
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Applied Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 19, 2023

DSA-An easy leetcode problem based on greedy algorithm.Usage of priority queue was there.sECOND QUESTION WAS OF MULTI SOURCE BFS.In the second round, they asked mainly on my projects and basic of ml like bias , variance trade off,random forest,some CNN architectures like ResNet, VGG etc.

1. Previous Work Experience 2. What is ResNet and how does it work 3. How to split node in Decision tree 4. What happens during runtime with dropout regularization 5. Full detailed mathematical formula for Wasserstein Distance!!!! - Very difficult to know/remember. Interviewer does not accept intuitive
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Applied Scientist II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 4, 2022

1. Previous Work Experience 2. What is ResNet and how does it work 3. How to split node in Decision tree 4. What happens during runtime with dropout regularization 5. Full detailed mathematical formula for Wasserstein Distance!!!! - Very difficult to know/remember. Interviewer does not accept intuitive

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