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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

  1. Walk through Dispatch and Combine in Expert Parallelism.
  2. What are the architectural traits of DeepSeek-series models?
  3. In Tensor Parallelism, how many AllReduce ops are needed, and how do you derive that?
  4. How do you compute KV Cache GPU-memory size?
  5. Which recent vLLM features are worth watching?

Coding

  1. Hand-write MQA and GQA.