OpenAI Interview Question

How would you design a scalable and efficient system for training a large language model, considering both computational and data constraints?

Interview Answer

Anonymous

Mar 6, 2025

I’d design a distributed training system using model parallelism (e.g., tensor/model sharding) and data parallelism across GPUs/TPUs. I’d optimize with mixed precision, gradient checkpointing, and efficient data pipelines, leveraging cloud-based autoscaling for cost-effective scalability and fault tolerance.