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Book II · Chapter 6

Training and debugging questions

Practice diagnosis, numerical decisions, imbalance, sequence training, and optimizer trade-offs.

Priority
Core
Difficulty
Mixed
Useful for
MLE, RE, AS
Interview rounds
Training, Debugging, ML breadth

Chapter contents

5 entries · read in order
  1. 01
    How would you debug a model that's not learning?
    Question
  2. 02
    Mixed precision: what's actually happening?
    Question
  3. 03
    How do you deal with class imbalance in 2026?
    Question
  4. 04
    Explain backprop through time
    Question
  5. 05
    Why does Adam sometimes generalize worse than SGD?
    Question