Machine Learning Engineer
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How do you balance model quality, latency, and cost in production?
Answer
Treat it as a product trade-off.
Approaches:
- Smaller models or distillation
- Quantization
- Caching and batching
- Multi-model routing (fast model first, fallback to strong model)
Define SLOs (p95 latency) and cost budgets, then tune architecture and model choice to meet them.
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