Indian Institute of Technology Madras
BS Degree Programme · Examination & Study Paper
Mathematical Foundations of Generative AI
End Term · 31 Aug 2025 (Forenoon)
Official Paper
Examination Instructions & Guidelines
- Solve on notebook/paper first before checking solutions.
- MCQ: Exactly 1 option is correct. Negative marking applies.
- Scientific calculator allowed for all calculations.
- Official answer key is sealed at the end of this sheet.
- Q1MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q2MCQ3 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q3MCQ4 Marks·Choose one option
Starting from 4×4 spatial size, apply four ConvTranspose2d blocks each with kernel 4, stride 2, padding 1. Final spatial size is:
- A16 × 16
- B32 × 32
- C64 × 64
- D128 × 128
- Q4MCQ4 Marks·Choose one option

- AIncrease capacity and reduce bias
- BReduce capacity, causing underfitting and gradient pathology
- CEnforce exact 1-Lipschitzness without bias
- DMake T convex
- Q5MCQ4 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q6MCQ4 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q7MCQ4 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q8MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option
In the Sampling pipeline in VAE, Unconditional generation uses
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- Q9MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q10MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A1.797
- B1.910
- C2.000
- D1.620
- Q11MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q12MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q13MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q14MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q15MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

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- Q16MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A0.6
- B0.5
- C0.67
- D0.75
- Q17MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A≈ 1.670
- B1.500
- C2.000
- D≈ 1.333
- Q18MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A768 × 768 = 589,824
- B768 × 64 = 49,152
- C64 × 64 = 4,096
- D12 × 64 = 768
- Q19MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A(3,−1)
- B(2, 0)
- C(1,−1)
- D(0, 0)
- Q20MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A2.62
- B2.00
- C2.81
- D1.90
- Q21MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option
An AR-LM can be viewed as an MDP by
- AState = token prefix, action = next token
- BState = next token, action = prefix
- CState = vocabulary, action = logits
- DImpossible
- Q22MCQ5 Marks·Choose one option

- A0.600
- B0.750
- C0.500
- D0.300