Instruction: Outline your approach to optimizing the performance of machine learning models for low-latency predictions in real-time applications.
Context: This question probes the candidate's ability to devise and implement optimization strategies for enhancing the responsiveness of ML models, ensuring they meet the demands of real-time applications.
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I would profile the full inference path first, because the main source of latency is often feature retrieval, network hops, serialization, or fallback logic rather than the model itself. Then I would target the real bottleneck.
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