The Many Ways to Deploy a Model | Outerbounds

📦 Service Deployment - Ray Serve (https://lnkd.in/eAV-Y6RN)

🧰 Data Transformation - Ray Data (https://lnkd.in/e7wYmenc)

🔌 LLM Integration - AIConfig (https://lnkd.in/esvH5NQa)

🗄 Vector Database - Weaviate (https://weaviate.io/)

📚 Supervised LLM Fine-Tuning - HuggingFace TLR (https://lnkd.in/e8_QYF-P)

📈 LLM Observability - Weights & Biases Tra... See more

A solution is to self-host an open-sourced or custom fine-tuned LLM. Opting for a self-hosted model can reduce costs dramatically - but with additional development time, maintenance overhead, and possible performance implications. Considering self-hosted solutions requires weighing these different trade-offs carefully.

A rough analogy to the current LLM process is that making a new model is like baking a cake. You figure out your data and algorithms—like mixing the batter—and then you pretrain the model, that is, run it on a large number of computers for several months—like putting it in the oven—and then at the end you do some “post training”—like frosting and d... See more

Top considerations when choosing foundation models

Accuracy

Cost

Latency

Privacy

Top challenges when deploying production AI

Serving cost

Evaluation

Infra reliability

Model quality

they could try “switching to a different model, augmenting the training data in some way, collecting more or different kinds of data, post-processing outputs, changing the objective function, or something else.” Our interviewees recommended focusing on experiments that provided additional context to the model, typically via new features, to get the... See more