Optimize AI: Build Fast Efficient Pipelines
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Optimize AI: Build Fast Efficient Pipelines
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In this short, hands-on course, you’ll learn how to build fast, efficient AI training and inference pipelines by optimizing both data loading and computational graphs. You’ll start by creating parallel, high-throughput data pipelines that keep GPUs consistently busy and reduce training bottlenecks. Then you’ll analyze a model’s computational graph to identify and remove redundant operations that slow execution. Through focused lesson videos, practical labs, and guided coach activities, you’ll re-export a streamlined model and validate real latency improvements. By the end, you’ll be able to diagnose performance issues, streamline pipelines, and apply optimization techniques that make AI systems faster, more reliable, and more cost-efficient.
In this short, hands-on course, you’ll learn how to build fast, efficient AI training and inference pipelines by optimizing both data loading and computational graphs. You’ll start by creating parallel, high-throughput data pipelines that keep GPUs consistently busy and reduce training bottlenecks. Then you’ll analyze a model’s computational graph to identify and remove redundant operations that slow execution. Through focused lesson videos, practical labs, and guided coach activities, you’ll re-export a streamlined model and validate real latency improvements. By the end, you’ll be able to diagnose performance issues, streamline pipelines, and apply optimization techniques that make AI systems faster, more reliable, and more cost-efficient.
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5 videos2 readings3 assignments
5 videos•Total 19 minutes
- Introduction and Welcome•4 minutes
- Why Data Pipelines Determine Training Speed•4 minutes
- Walkthrough: Composing an Efficient tf.data Pipeline•4 minutes
- Understanding Model Pruning and Re-export for Efficient Pipelines•4 minutes
- Congratulations and Continuous Learning Journey•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Parallel Data Loading: Map, Cache, Batch, Prefetch Explained•10 minutes
- Inside a Model’s Computational Graph: Finding Waste•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 50 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Optimize AI: Build Fast Efficient Pipelines•20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Build and Test a High-Throughput Data Pipeline•15 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Reduce Model Latency by Pruning Redundant Ops•15 minutes
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