Your question is Troubleshooting Production ML. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Describe how you troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in production ML models.
Discuss a practical, systematic approach that distinguishes data-loading, preprocessing, model-inference, serialization, and infrastructure bottlenecks. Explain which measurements, profiling tools, offline tests, and production safeguards you would use. Address both latency and model-quality degradation, including how you would validate an optimization before deployment.