LLMOps & MLOps

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LLMOps & MLOps

Operationalize AI models with production-ready workflows, monitoring, and scaling strategies

What You’ll Master

🎯 Model Fine-tuning & Customization

Adapt pre-trained models for your specific use cases

• Supervised Fine-tuning - Task-specific training on domain data
• Few-shot Learning - Maximizing performance with minimal training data
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning - LoRA, AdaLoRA, and QLoRA techniques
• Instruction Tuning - Training models to follow specific instructions and formats
• Domain Adaptation - Specializing models for medical, legal, financial, and technical domains

🔄 Model Alignment & Safety

Ensure AI models behave safely and ethically

• Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) - Aligning models with human preferences
• Constitutional AI - Building models that follow ethical principles
• Red Teaming - Systematic testing for harmful outputs and edge cases
• Bias Detection & Mitigation - Identifying and reducing model biases
• Safety Filtering - Content filtering and harmful output prevention

📊 Comprehensive Evaluation Frameworks

Measure and validate model performance systematically

• Automated Evaluation - BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, and domain-specific metrics
• Human Evaluation - Design effective human-in-the-loop evaluation processes
• Adversarial Testing - Robustness testing and edge case identification
• Benchmark Development - Creating industry-specific evaluation standards
• A/B Testing for AI - Comparing model performance in production environments

📈 Production Monitoring & Observability

Maintain model performance and reliability in production

• Model Drift Detection - Identifying when model performance degrades over time
• Data Drift Monitoring - Tracking changes in input data distributions
• Performance Metrics Tracking - Latency, throughput, accuracy, and cost monitoring
• Alert Systems - Automated alerting for model and infrastructure issues
• Explainability & Interpretability - Understanding model decisions and outputs

🚀 Deployment & Infrastructure

Scale AI models efficiently in production environments

• Model Serving - REST APIs, gRPC, and streaming inference endpoints
• Containerization - Docker and Kubernetes deployment strategies
• Auto-scaling - Dynamic resource allocation based on demand
• Multi-model Serving - Efficiently serving multiple models simultaneously
• Edge Deployment - Deploying models on edge devices and mobile platforms

🔧 MLOps Pipeline Automation

Build robust, automated ML workflows

• CI/CD for ML - Automated testing, validation, and deployment pipelines
• Experiment Tracking - Version control for models, data, and experiments
• Data Versioning - Managing dataset versions and lineage tracking
• Model Registry - Centralized model management and metadata tracking
• Feature Stores - Centralized feature management and serving

💰 Cost Optimization & Resource Management

Maximize efficiency while minimizing costs

• Token Usage Optimization - Reducing API costs through efficient prompting
• Model Compression - Quantization, pruning, and distillation techniques
• Caching Strategies - Intelligent caching to reduce compute costs
• Resource Allocation - Right-sizing compute resources for different workloads
• Cost Monitoring - Tracking and optimizing AI infrastructure spending

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Production Maturity Levels

🌱 Level 1: Basic Deployment

Getting your first AI model into production

• Simple API wrapper around pre-trained models
• Basic logging and error handling
• Manual deployment and updates
• Simple performance monitoring

Key Focus Areas:

• Reliable model serving infrastructure
• Basic security and access controls
• Error handling and graceful degradation
• Initial performance benchmarks

🌿 Level 2: Automated Operations

Building repeatable, automated workflows

• CI/CD pipelines for model deployment
• Automated testing and validation
• Basic monitoring and alerting
• Version control for models and code

Key Focus Areas:

• Experiment tracking and reproducibility
• Automated model validation pipelines
• Infrastructure as code practices
• Performance regression testing

🌳 Level 3: Advanced MLOps

Enterprise-grade AI operations

• Advanced monitoring and observability
• Automated retraining and deployment
• A/B testing and canary deployments
• Data and model governance

Key Focus Areas:

• Model drift detection and remediation
• Advanced evaluation frameworks
• Multi-environment deployment strategies
• Cost optimization and resource management

🌲 Level 4: AI Excellence

Industry-leading AI operations

• Fully automated ML lifecycles
• Advanced safety and alignment practices
• Real-time adaptation and optimization
• Cross-functional AI governance

Key Focus Areas:

• Autonomous model improvement
• Advanced safety and alignment techniques
• Real-time performance optimization
• Strategic AI governance and ethics

Essential Tools & Platforms

Model Development & Training

• Weights & Biases - Experiment tracking and model management
• MLflow - Open-source ML lifecycle management
• Hugging Face Hub - Model repository and deployment
• DVC - Data and model versioning

Deployment & Serving

• TensorFlow Serving - High-performance model serving
• TorchServe - PyTorch model deployment
• Seldon Core - Kubernetes-native ML deployment
• BentoML - Model serving and deployment framework

Monitoring & Observability

• Evidently AI - ML model monitoring and data drift detection
• Arize AI - ML observability and performance monitoring
• Fiddler - Model performance management
• Neptune - ML metadata management

Infrastructure & Orchestration

• Kubeflow - ML workflows on Kubernetes
• Apache Airflow - Workflow orchestration and scheduling
• Prefect - Modern workflow orchestration
• Ray - Distributed computing for ML workloads

Best Practices Checklist

🔍 Pre-Production

• Model validation on representative test data
• Security scanning and vulnerability assessment
• Performance benchmarking and optimization
• Documentation and runbook creation
• Rollback and disaster recovery planning

🚀 Production Deployment

• Blue-green or canary deployment strategy
• Health checks and readiness probes
• Auto-scaling configuration
• Monitoring and alerting setup
• Log aggregation and analysis

📊 Post-Deployment

• Performance monitoring and SLA tracking
• Model drift and data quality monitoring
• User feedback collection and analysis
• Cost tracking and optimization
• Regular model evaluation and updates

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