Meta (Facebook) Machine Learning Case Study: Illegal Items Detection
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Let’s say you are designing a marketplace for your website.
Selling firearms is prohibited by your website’s Terms of Service Agreement (not to mention the laws of your country). To this end, you want to create a system that can automatically detect if a listing on the marketplace is selling a gun.
How would you go about doing this?
What is the interviewer looking for?
The interviewer is looking for a few points here:
- Can you properly scope the size of this project?
- Can you apply machine learning to a business goal?
- Can you design a machine learning system from the ground up to production?
We’re going to start with a four-step framework here:
- Clarification of the Machine Learning Question
- Making and Setting Assumptions of the Problem Scope
Clarification of the Machine Learning Question
Let’s start out with
