IVQA 301-350

301. How do GenAI models handle multilingual inputs?

  • Multilingual models (e.g., mT5, XGLM) are trained on multi-language corpora

  • LLMs like GPT-4 and Gemini detect language automatically

  • Tokenizers use shared subword units across languages


302. What are alignment challenges when generating content in multiple languages?

  • Cultural nuance and tone mismatch

  • Idioms and metaphors don’t translate cleanly

  • Inconsistent safety filters across languages

  • Bias may be more pronounced in underrepresented languages


303. How do you evaluate translation accuracy in low-resource languages?

  • Use BLEU, chrF, or COMET scores

  • Human review for fluency and adequacy

  • Leverage synthetic round-trip translation (A → B → A)

  • Compare to parallel corpora (if available)


304. How would you fine-tune a model to perform better on a specific regional dialect?

  • Curate dialect-specific corpora (e.g., social media, subtitles)

  • Fine-tune using LoRA or PEFT

  • Adjust tokenizer if needed for unique spellings

  • Validate on regional benchmarks or human evals


305. What are the best multilingual open-source LLMs available today?

  • mBART, mT5, XGLM (Meta), ByT5

  • Mistral multilingual variants, Gemma, BLOOMZ-mt

  • Some versions of LLaMA 3 and OpenHermes support >20 languages


306. How do you ensure cultural sensitivity in multilingual GenAI output?

  • Use culturally diverse training data

  • Apply post-generation filters or classifiers for stereotypes or bias

  • Involve native reviewers in evaluation

  • Avoid direct translation of culturally loaded terms


307. How do embeddings behave across languages? Are they comparable?

  • In multilingual models, embeddings map similar concepts across languages to nearby vectors

  • Can be used for cross-lingual retrieval

  • Alignment quality depends on language pair and training data


308. What are strategies to prevent code-mixing errors in multilingual chatbots?

  • Detect user language per session or utterance

  • Lock model responses to the detected language

  • Train/fine-tune on language-consistent dialogs

  • Penalize unwanted language switches during decoding


309. How do GenAI models handle right-to-left (RTL) scripts like Arabic or Hebrew?

  • Handled at the tokenizer/rendering level

  • Model itself is language-agnostic but UI must support RTL rendering

  • Preprocessing must preserve word order and punctuation in RTL


310. What are multilingual benchmarks like XNLI or XTREME, and why do they matter?

  • XNLI: Natural language inference in 15+ languages

  • XTREME: Covers tasks like QA, NLI, NER, and retrieval across 40+ languages

  • Essential for evaluating cross-lingual transfer and fairness


311. How would you architect a GenAI system that automatically fills forms using PDFs?

  • Extract text using OCR/PDF parsers

  • Use LLM to map fields from extracted text to form schema

  • Auto-fill using form templates (PDF, HTML, JSON)

  • Apply validation before submission


312. How can GenAI be used to control CLI or OS-level tools safely?

  • Use LLM to generate structured commands

  • Pass commands to a sandboxed executor (e.g., Docker, subprocess with ACL)

  • Restrict allowed commands or arguments

  • Log and audit all executions


313. What’s the difference between Zapier MCP and OpenAI function calling?

Feature
Zapier MCP
OpenAI Function Calling

Use Case

External workflows, automation

Internal tool integration

Auth

Built-in OAuth & triggers

Manual function routing

Interface

No-code

Code-first (JSON schema based)


314. How do you trigger real-world automation using GenAI?

  • Use LLM to parse intent and generate API call or command

  • Connect via function calling or LangChain Tools

  • Trigger workflows (e.g., Twilio for SMS, SendGrid for email)

  • Validate intent before execution


315. How do you use Selenium or Playwright with GenAI for browser control?

  • LLM generates action plans (e.g., “click login button, fill form”)

  • Pass to Selenium/Playwright script with selector matching

  • Confirm state via screenshots or DOM parsing

  • Useful for testing, scraping, RPA


316. How can you use GenAI for test automation in software QA?

  • Generate test cases from user stories or code

  • Convert bug reports to reproducible steps

  • Create input permutations for fuzz testing

  • Summarize test results or logs


317. How do you integrate GenAI with calendar tools for smart scheduling?

  • Parse intent ("Book meeting next week with team")

  • Call APIs like Google Calendar or Outlook

  • Retrieve availability and generate invite

  • Allow confirmation before booking


318. How do you ensure safe tool use in LLM-powered autonomous agents?

  • Add tool schemas with strict type checking

  • Limit execution scope (time, resources, APIs)

  • Use audit logging and sandboxed environments

  • Implement retry and validation logic


319. What are common tool abstractions in LangChain or AutoGen?

  • Tool: Wrapper for external function with name/description

  • AgentExecutor: Orchestrates tool selection and calling

  • AutoGen Agent: Structured role + tool + message protocol

  • Tools include search, calculator, DB query, file system


320. How do you manage API credentials securely in GenAI workflows?

  • Store in secret managers (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets, env vars)

  • Never hard-code keys in prompts or logs

  • Limit token scopes and rotate periodically

  • Use role-based access control (RBAC)


321. How do you write unit tests for GenAI prompt outputs?

  • Define input → expected output pairs

  • Use fuzzy matching (e.g., semantic similarity)

  • Validate structure (e.g., JSON schemas)

  • Run tests across model versions


322. What is prompt fuzzing and why is it important?

  • Automated generation of varied prompts to test model robustness

  • Helps uncover edge-case behavior, prompt injection vulnerabilities

  • Can test tone, formatting, adversarial variants


323. How do you conduct regression testing for GenAI behavior?

  • Store golden prompts + expected outputs

  • Compare new model outputs to historical ones

  • Use metrics like BLEU, cosine similarity, or human review

  • Run as part of CI pipeline


324. How can you simulate adversarial attacks during model testing?

  • Inject jailbreak prompts, misleading instructions

  • Use security-focused fuzzing libraries

  • Monitor for compliance violations or safety lapses


325. What are gold-standard responses in GenAI evaluation?

  • Human-authored or curated outputs deemed correct

  • Used as ground truth for BLEU, ROUGE, or accuracy

  • Essential for supervised fine-tuning or eval benchmarks


326. How do you evaluate hallucination vs. paraphrasing vs. error?

  • Hallucination: Fabricated fact not in context

  • Paraphrasing: Different wording, same meaning

  • Error: Wrong or misleading content

  • Use human annotation or fact-checking tools


327. What’s the best way to do continuous integration for GenAI prompts?

  • Version control prompts (Git)

  • Include eval suite with semantic and structural tests

  • Validate before merge or deploy

  • Use prompt templating systems (e.g., Jinja, DSPy)


328. What metrics would you track in a GenAI system post-release?

  • Token cost per user/task

  • Task completion rate

  • Satisfaction scores (thumbs up/down)

  • Latency, fallback rate, hallucination frequency


329. How do you identify slow degradation of GenAI model quality?

  • Monitor drift in user feedback or embeddings

  • Compare monthly performance benchmarks

  • Use canary models for A/B checks

  • Analyze token usage vs. success rate over time


330. How do you validate performance on rare edge cases?

  • Curate datasets for low-frequency scenarios

  • Use counterfactuals (e.g., “What if X didn’t happen?”)

  • Include diversity tests (language, domain, input styles)

  • Apply stress testing frameworks


331. How do LLM agents decide when to use tools vs. generate answers?

  • Use internal scoring or conditional prompts

  • Based on presence of keywords (e.g., "calculate", "search")

  • Maintain tool metadata (use cases, triggers)

  • Some use planner modules to evaluate options


332. How do you enable recursive self-reflection in agents?

  • Add a “reflection” step post-output

  • Ask the model: “Was this answer accurate? How can it improve?”

  • Use critic agents or inner monologues (e.g., AutoGPT, ReAct)

  • Append feedback loop into scratchpad


333. What’s the difference between plan-and-execute vs. chain-of-thought approaches?

Approach
Plan-and-Execute
Chain-of-Thought

Structure

Creates full plan first

Step-by-step reasoning

Flexibility

Less adaptive mid-task

Dynamically adjusts per step

Example

AutoGPT, LangGraph

ReAct, PAL


334. How would you implement a research agent that performs web searches and writes a report?

  • Tools: search API, summarizer, notepad, report generator

  • Plan: Define subtopics → search → extract facts → synthesize

  • Use agent loop with memory and task tracker

  • Output final report in Markdown or PDF


335. How do you tune an agent’s decision-making loop for complex task completion?

  • Define stopping conditions and success criteria

  • Add scoring for each tool/action step

  • Track failures and retries

  • Use RL or feedback-based improvement


336. What is dynamic memory injection in agent design?

  • Retrieve relevant memory during runtime (e.g., via embeddings)

  • Inject into prompt before generation

  • Reduces context window overload

  • Supports long-horizon reasoning


337. How do you use graph structures for tracking agent plans?

  • Nodes = subtasks or decisions

  • Edges = dependencies or transitions

  • Visualize with LangGraph or custom FSMs

  • Enables retry, rollback, or parallel planning


338. What is inter-agent communication and when is it useful?

  • Agents exchange messages (e.g., UserAgent → CriticAgent)

  • Useful for role specialization and consensus building

  • Enables collaborative workflows and task sharing


339. How would you simulate user feedback in agent training?

  • Use synthetic feedback (thumbs up/down based on rules)

  • Log real-world usage and inject as rewards

  • Pre-train critic model to generate feedback

  • Fine-tune with RLHF or scoring loops


340. How can agents collaborate to summarize, critique, and improve a document?

  • One agent summarizes

  • Second critiques based on rules (clarity, tone)

  • Third suggests improvements

  • Final agent synthesizes into final output


341. How do GenAI models handle time-based logic or sequences of events?

  • Trained on temporal patterns in language

  • Struggle with date math, implicit timelines

  • Use prompts like “first, next, finally” to guide logic


342. How would you get an LLM to generate accurate timelines?

  • Provide structured input (event + date)

  • Ask to order or format as timeline

  • Use tools like date parsers for verification

  • Prompt with examples for consistent output


343. What’s the difference between temporal inference and causal reasoning?

  • Temporal: "Event A happened before B"

  • Causal: "Event A caused B"

  • Causal reasoning requires external knowledge or strong world models


344. How do you evaluate event consistency in long-context generation?

  • Track entities and timestamps across paragraphs

  • Use logical consistency checks (“Did event B occur after A?”)

  • Apply temporal QA tools or symbolic validators


345. How do LLMs fail at reasoning about calendars or durations, and how do you fix it?

  • Confuse relative dates ("next Monday")

  • Miscalculate durations

  • Fix: use date libraries, tool calls, or fine-tune on calendar tasks


346. How would you simulate memory evolution over time for an agent?

  • Store time-stamped entries

  • Decay or prioritize memory slots

  • Inject memory state relevant to current prompt

  • Use context-aware memory retrieval


347. How can GenAI track state changes in a long conversation?

  • Log state as key-value store

  • Update state after each turn (e.g., shopping cart, task progress)

  • Summarize past states periodically

  • Reinject into prompt as needed


348. How do you implement reminder and follow-up functionality in a GenAI assistant?

  • Parse intent + time from user input

  • Store in task scheduler (e.g., cron, APScheduler)

  • Trigger prompt generation when time is reached

  • Confirm with user before action


349. What are ways to encode temporal facts into retrieval systems?

  • Store timestamps with document chunks

  • Add temporal filters in vector DB queries

  • Use time embeddings

  • Combine symbolic and vector search


350. How would you compare two GenAI outputs for narrative coherence over time?

  • Check event order consistency

  • Use temporal logic rules (e.g., before/after violations)

  • Human review or automated QA

  • Use scoring models trained on narrative structure


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