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Interview question

  • midlevel
  • 10 minsuggested time
  • 3Applied AI, Data scientist, ML engineer

You must route 50,000 customer emails a month into 12 categories for an airline's service team. You have 8,000 labelled emails. A colleague wants to fine-tune a large language model immediately. What would you do first, and how would you decide?

Tests: Baseline-first NLP: TF-IDF plus linear models, small fine-tuned encoders, LLM prompting; evaluation set design; cost, latency and maintenance trade-offs.

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