Generative Vision Interview Questions, issue 7, Jun 15, 2026
The Synonym Trap
Senior AI Engineer interview at Google DeepMind, and the interviewer asks:
“In continuous generative models, what is the exact physical difference between a ‘score’ and a ‘vector field’?”
Why treating a probability score and a vector field as the same thing silently burns thousands of A100 hours, and the kinematic mental shift that drops your inference latency from seconds to millisec.
The full answer, with the mechanism and the arithmetic, is for paid subscribers on Substack.