ML Systems Combined Exam — Summer 2026 (Paris)

Given Thu Sep 17, 2026. Published here with solutions as practice material; build with make all.

Single combined exam for the three-week Paris offering (Thu Sep 17, 2026). Designed for about 45–50 minutes; the full class period is available. Generated from docs/combined/2026/generate-summer-final.md in the course repo (agenda docs/agenda/2026-summer.md, Meetings 1–8; past 2025 midterm and final as format models), then edited by hand.

Files

• exam.tex — main file (\usepackage[]{feamster}; the Makefile flips on solution)
• questions.tex — questions with solutions (75 points incl. 2 feedback points; student version is 6 pages)
• questions-v1.tex.bak — the pre-review draft (65 points, 5 pages); questions-v2.tex.bak — the post-review draft before the format pass (more short answers)
• instructions.tex — standard instructions and permitted-materials statement
• feamster.sty, Makefile — copied from docs/final/2025/

Build

make all        # exam.pdf and exam-solution.pdf
make clean

Coverage note

Meetings 1–9, revised after the Sep 15 in-class review: adds throughput vs. latency, the negative-RTT pipeline question, the block-list question, the real-time select-all, a confusion-matrix computation, model-complexity knobs, a dendrogram cut, and a Generative Models section; drops the tree region-map and one short answer; more yes/no + why and select-all, fewer short answers. Format pass (Sep 15 evening): Q2 stage as MC, Q4 and Q7(a) and Q21(a) as yes/no + why, Q7(b), Q11, Q15(a), Q20, Q21(b) as MC, Q16 reworded, full-width boxes on Q19 and Q22. Only four pure short answers remain (Q6, Q13, Q14, Q16).