T0 Big tech Baidu New grad Round 2
Baidu AI Infra campus hire second round (3)
Real Baidu AI Infra campus-hire second-round interview questions covering inference optimization
Inference optimization
Large models and search
- How does Beam Search work? How does it differ from direct sampling?
- How prompts are generated, what they optimize for, and which task types they match
- What common methods reduce large-model hallucination?
- When search accuracy is low, how do you debug?
- Between recall and ranking, which more often becomes the bottleneck?
- Can generative search guarantee top-1 accuracy? How do you improve it?
- Basic idea of generative ranking
Model training and fine-tuning
- Compare BERT vs GPT pretraining approaches and training-detail differences
- How do you build ranking-model training data? How do you handle positive/negative imbalance?
Engineering practice
- What relevance optimizations did you do in the project? Any quantified evaluation results?
- How do you keep Agent services highly available and robust?