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Operations Management for AI

The AI lifecycle of data, training, deployment, and governance are operational problems. We study these problems by leveraging techniques from operations management.

Relevant publications

  1. Routing, cascades, and user choice for large language models Rafid Mahmood International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
  2. Optimizing data collection for machine learning Rafid Mahmood, James Lucas, Jose M Alvarez, Sanja Fidler, and Marc T Law Journal of Machine Learning Research 2025   arXiv     Project Page  

    • Preliminary version appeared in NeurIPS 2022.

  3. Pricing and competition for generative AI Rafid Mahmood Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024   arXiv  
  4. Minority reports: Balancing cost and quality in ground truth data annotation Hsuan Wei Liao, Christopher Klugmann, Daniel Kondermann, and Rafid Mahmood   arXiv