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Track 8 — Data & Analytics Economics

8-5: ML Pipeline & MLOps

Modeling the vast difference between Model Training costs and Production Serving (Inference) costs.

1 Lessons~45 min

🎯 What You'll Learn

  • Separate Model Training vs Inference
  • Calculate GPU burst consumption
  • Implement MLOps experiment tracking
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Training vs Inference Economics

In Machine Learning, building a model (Training) is a high-cost, burst-compute capital expense. Running that model for live users (Inference) is a low-cost, continuous operational expense. Treating them identically bankrupts budgets.

Using expensive A100 GPUs for live inference of a small, localized model is a catastrophic misallocation. Inference should be pushed to cheap CPUs or heavily quantized edge hardware wherever latency SLAs permit.

The goal of MLOps is to compress the time-to-market of a model while driving the per-request Inference cost to absolute zero.

Training Capital Expense (CapEx)

The burst cost of running GPUs for 72 hours to compile the model weights.

Requires rigid budgeting and spot instances
Inference Operational Expense (OpEx)

The per-second cost of keeping the model hosted answering live traffic.

Must be optimized for auto-scaling down to zero
📝 Exercise

Implement auto-scaling-to-zero for your inference endpoints.

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Why is running continuous Machine Learning Inference on premium Training GPUs (like A100s) an economic mistake?

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04strategy: 'COST_EFFICIENT_SLM',
05fallback: 'FRONTIER_MODEL'
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Lesson 1: Training vs Inference Economics

In Machine Learning, building a model (Training) is a high-cost, burst-compute capital expense. Running that model for live users (Inference) is a low-cost, continuous operational expense. Treating them identically bankrupts budgets.Using expensive A100 GPUs for live inference of a small, localized model is a catastrophic misallocation. Inference should be pushed to cheap CPUs or heavily quantized edge hardware wherever latency SLAs permit.The goal of MLOps is to compress the time-to-market of a model while driving the per-request Inference cost to absolute zero.

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