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Start Scaling Prototypes into ML Models PracticeYou have a TensorFlow training script that runs on a single machine. To speed up training on Vertex AI with 8 GPUs on a single machine, which strategy should you use?
Explanation: MirroredStrategy performs synchronous data parallelism across multiple GPUs on a single machine. MultiWorkerMirroredStrategy is for multiple machines, not needed here. ParameterServerStrategy is for distributed asynchronous training. TPUStrategy is for TPUs.
A data science team is building a feature engineering pipeline that processes large-scale data from BigQuery daily. They need to compute aggregate features and store the results in Vertex AI Feature Store for both online serving and offline training. Which Google Cloud service is best suited for this batch computation?
Explanation: Dataflow is ideal for batch processing large datasets from BigQuery with Apache Beam. It can write directly to Feature Store's API. Cloud Functions is event-driven and not for heavy batch. Dataproc is for Spark/Hadoop, not as efficient for Beam. Cloud Composer is an orchestrator, not executor.
You are fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) from Hugging Face Transformers using Vertex AI Training. The model has 7 billion parameters and does not fit into the memory of a single GPU. You need to train across multiple GPUs, splitting the model layers across devices. Which distributed training approach should you use?
Explanation: Model parallelism (pipeline parallelism) splits model layers across devices, necessary for large models that don't fit on one GPU. Data parallelism replicates the model and splits data, not suitable if model doesn't fit. Mixed precision reduces memory but still requires model parallelism for 7B. Fully sharded data parallelism (FSDP) is a form of data parallelism with sharding, but pipeline parallelism is more common for layer-wise splitting.
A company is using Vertex AI Vizier for hyperparameter tuning of a model with 5 integer hyperparameters, each with a range of 10-100. They have a budget of 50 trials and want to maximize the chance of finding the best configuration. Which Vizier algorithm should they use?
Explanation: Bayesian optimization (GP bandit) is best for small trial budgets as it uses past results to guide search. Grid search would be too many combinations. Random search is better than grid but still less efficient than Bayesian. Vizier does not support simulated annealing.
You want to use a pre-trained model from TensorFlow Hub for image classification, but you need to adapt it to classify your own custom categories with a small dataset. Which Vertex AI approach is most appropriate?
Explanation: Transfer learning fine-tunes a pre-trained model on a new dataset with small data. JumpStart deploys foundation models but not fine-tune for custom categories easily. Custom container is overkill. AutoML requires no code but may not be suitable if you want to control the pre-trained model.
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