Context Window Extension Techniques Across Model Families

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1. What does the RoPE technique use to represent token positions in transformer models?

   1. Rotational matrices to encode relative positions directly into attention scores
   2. Sinusoidal waves that encode absolute position information
   3. Linear attention biases that decay with distance between tokens
   4. A sliding window that discards distant position information

2. Which context extension technique applies a linear penalty to attention scores based on token distance?

   1. Position interpolation
   2. ALiBi (Attention with Linear Biases)
   3. NTK-aware scaling
   4. RoPE scaling

3. If a model achieves 95% accuracy at 4k context length but only 55% accuracy at 128k context length, what is this pattern called?

   1. Attention overflow
   2. Position aliasing
   3. Quality degradation at extended context
   4. Context normalization failure

4. What does NTK-aware scaling modify to extend a model's context window?

   1. The model's vocabulary size
   2. The loss function weights
   3. The frequency bands in positional encodings
   4. The attention head count

5. Which evaluation method embeds a specific piece of information (a 'needle') deep within a long irrelevant text (the 'haystack') to test retrieval?

   1. Needle-in-haystack testing
   2. Multi-document QA
   3. Context compression benchmarking
   4. Long-range dependency profiling

6. What does position interpolation do to extend context length?

   1. It adds new position values beyond the training range
   2. It compresses existing position indices to fit the original range
   3. It duplicates position embeddings for repeated tokens
   4. It randomly shuffles position embeddings

7. Which model family is explicitly mentioned in the lesson as using RoPE for positional encoding?

   1. GPT-4
   2. Mistral
   3. Llama
   4. Claude

8. Why is training with long-context data important when extending a model's context window?

   1. It reduces the model's vocabulary requirements
   2. It eliminates the need for positional encoding changes
   3. It automatically increases the model's parameter count
   4. It teaches the model to maintain accuracy at longer contexts

9. What is a key limitation mentioned regarding 10x context extension?

   1. It makes the model too slow to use
   2. It causes permanent model权重damage
   3. It cannot be achieved without quality loss
   4. It requires 10x more GPU memory

10. Which evaluation method tests a model's ability to answer questions across multiple long documents?

    1. Cross-lingual benchmarking
    2. Multi-document QA
    3. Needle-in-haystack
    4. Single-context retrieval

11. Which technique is described as stretching context by modifying frequency bands in the positional encoding?

    1. Flash attention
    2. NTK-aware scaling
    3. ALiBi
    4. Position interpolation

12. The lesson notes that different models handle long context differently. What should you always do before deploying a model at extended context?

    1. Reduce the batch size
    2. Increase the learning rate
    3. Evaluate at the specific lengths you'll actually use
    4. Remove all positional embeddings

13. What type of positional encoding does ALiBi replace entirely?

    1. Sinusoidal positional encodings
    2. Rotary position embeddings
    3. Relative positional biases
    4. Learned positional embeddings

14. If you extend a model's context from 8k to 64k using position interpolation, what happens to the position indices?

    1. They are compressed to fit the original training range
    2. They are left unchanged
    3. They are randomized within the new range
    4. They are scaled up proportionally to the new length

15. Which model family uses sliding window attention as part of its context handling approach?

    1. Llama
    2. GPT
    3. Mistral
    4. Claude