arXiv Machine Learning By Tejinder Singh, John Pflueger, Jeebak Mitra, Robert Lincourt, Mitchell Markow, Bhavesh A. Patel

Optimizing AI Inference Across the Deployment Stack

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The paper argues that AI deployment performance depends on interactions among compression, compiler transformations, and serving policies rather than just model architecture. It introduces a three‑layer taxonomy—model‑level techniques, compiler transformations, and system policies—and frames deployment as a constrained multi‑objective optimization problem over accuracy, latency, throughput, memory footprint, and energy. The authors propose an evidence protocol for comparable benchmarking and synthesize data from edge and data‑center platforms to show that cross‑layer interactions drive deployment outcomes, concluding with a constraint‑aware selection procedure and open research problems.

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