Optimize AI Inference Speed & Accuracy

External: Coursera Courses ↗ · Coursera

Open Course on External: Coursera

Free to audit · Opens on External: Coursera

Optimize AI Inference Speed & Accuracy

Coursera · Advanced ·🏭 MLOps & LLMOps ·3mo ago

Key Takeaways

Optimizes neural network inference for real-world deployment across mobile, edge, and cloud environments

Original Description

Production ML models failing your latency targets? Learn how to make them run 3-5x faster without losing accuracy. This course helps ML engineers and data scientists optimize neural network inference for real-world deployment—across mobile, edge, and cloud environments. If you face slow model inference, high infrastructure costs, or deployment constraints, this course provides practical solutions. You'll master profiling techniques to identify performance bottlenecks, apply quantization to cut precision requirements, and make smart trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and resource constraints. You'll learn to benchmark optimization techniques and select the right approach for deployment scenarios. You'll explore inference profiling and metrics, pruning strategies, and quantization methods. You'll practice with real-world cases—from streaming platforms to autonomous vehicles—using industry-standard tools like PyTorch Profiler, TensorRT, and pruning utilities. This course is ideal for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners who are deploying or optimizing models in production. It’s also valuable for MLOps professionals and system engineers responsible for performance tuning in resource-constrained environments (e.g., mobile, embedded, or cloud inference systems). Learners should have a good grasp of Python and basic experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow. Familiarity with machine learning concepts, such as model training and evaluation, is expected. Understanding how neural networks work and basic performance metrics like latency and accuracy will help you get the most from this course. By the end of this course, you’ll confidently optimize production models, cut inference costs, meet latency goals, and deploy ML systems that scale efficiently.
Watch on External: Coursera ↗ (saves to browser)
Sign in to unlock AI tutor explanation · ⚡30

Related Reads

📰
A Phased Blueprint for Migrating From Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
Learn a step-by-step approach to migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 with minimal downtime and zero data loss, understanding it as an infrastructure engineering challenge
Hackernoon
📰
Feature Freshness: The Forgotten Problem of MLOps
Learn how outdated features can cause production models to fail and why feature freshness is crucial in MLOps, to improve model performance and reliability
Medium · LLM
📰
Day 19 of the 100 Days of MLOps Challenge
Learn to build a complete DVC ML pipeline with remote storage and experiments to streamline your machine learning workflow and improve collaboration
Medium · DevOps
📰
From Critical Infrastructure to AI Factories: Building an AI Operations Copilot on Nebius…
Learn how to build an AI operations copilot by leveraging experience in critical infrastructure and AI-assisted engineering, and why it matters for efficient AI deployment
Medium · LLM
Up next
Pole Pruner How A Rope Lever Shears High Branches
Innoforge Studio
Watch →