T0 Big tech Alibaba Round 1
Alibaba Group Holding AI Infra first round
Real Alibaba AI Infra first-round interview questions covering high-performance computing and related topics
High-performance computing
Fundamentals
- Walk through Dispatch and Combine in Expert Parallelism.
- What are the architectural traits of DeepSeek-series models?
- In Tensor Parallelism, how many AllReduce ops are needed, and how do you derive that?
- How do you compute KV Cache GPU-memory size?
- Which recent vLLM features are worth watching?
Coding
- Hand-write MQA and GQA.