Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

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Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
Kireth Semantic Research Archive

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https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/computing-ontologies/artificial-intelligence-infrastructure.html

AUTHORS:
Mark Anthony Higgins — Sky (Recursive AI)

FLOW "ArtificialIntelligenceInfrastructure" v4.0

# ---------- DOMAIN ----------
DOMAIN := ComputingOntologies
SUBDOMAIN := ArtificialIntelligenceInfrastructure
TYPE := ParentOntology / SemanticNavigationHub

# ---------- PRIMARY ENTITY ----------
ENTITY ArtificialIntelligenceInfrastructure {
    definition:
        "The computing, data, storage, networking, orchestration and operational
         infrastructure used to develop, train, evaluate, deploy, serve,
         monitor and maintain artificial intelligence and machine learning
         systems.";

    objectives: [
        AICompute,
        DataAvailability,
        ModelTraining,
        ModelServing,
        Scalability,
        Reliability,
        Observability,
        Reproducibility
    ];
}

# ---------- CORE ENTITIES ----------
AIInfrastructureEntity := {
    ComputeNode,
    CPU,
    GPU,
    Accelerator,
    Memory,
    Storage,
    Network,
    Cluster,
    Model,
    Dataset
};

OperationalEntity := {
    TrainingJob,
    EvaluationJob,
    InferenceService,
    Pipeline,
    Scheduler,
    Orchestrator,
    ModelRegistry,
    MonitoringSystem
};

DataEntity := {
    RawDataset,
    TrainingDataset,
    ValidationDataset,
    TestDataset,
    FeatureDataset,
    EmbeddingStore,
    VectorIndex
};

InfrastructureLayer := {
    HardwareLayer,
    VirtualisationLayer,
    ContainerLayer,
    OrchestrationLayer,
    MLPlatformLayer,
    ApplicationLayer
};

# ---------- FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS ----------
AIWorkload RUNS_ON ComputeResource;
ComputeNode CONTAINS ProcessorOrAccelerator;
Cluster CONSISTS_OF ComputeNode;
TrainingJob USES TrainingDataset;
TrainingJob PRODUCES Model;
EvaluationJob EVALUATES Model;
ModelRegistry STORES ModelVersion;
InferenceService SERVES Model;
MonitoringSystem OBSERVES AIWorkloadAndModel;

# ---------- AI INFRASTRUCTURE FLOW ----------
AIObjective ->
    AcquireData
    -> PrepareData
    -> ProvisionCompute
    -> ConfigureEnvironment
    -> TrainModel
    -> EvaluateModel
    -> RegisterModel
    -> DeployModel
    -> ServeInference
    -> MonitorSystemAndModel
    -> UpdateOrRetrain;

# ---------- COMPUTE ----------
AICompute :=
    ProcessingResourcesUsedForAIWorkload;

ComputeResource MAY_INCLUDE {
    CPU,
    GPU,
    TPUOrSpecialisedAccelerator,
    Memory,
    LocalStorage
};

WorkloadResourceRequirement SHOULD_MATCH ComputeArchitecture;

# ---------- GPU ----------
GPU :=
    ParallelProcessorFrequentlyUsedForAITrainingAndInference;

GPU MAY_ACCELERATE {
    MatrixOperations,
    TensorOperations,
    NeuralNetworkTraining,
    ModelInference
};

# ---------- ACCELERATOR ----------
AIAccelerator :=
    HardwareOptimisedForSelectedMachineLearningOperations;

Accelerator MAY_HAVE {
    ComputeThroughput,
    MemoryCapacity,
    MemoryBandwidth,
    InterconnectCapability
};

# ---------- MEMORY ----------
AIMemoryHierarchy MAY_INCLUDE {
    AcceleratorMemory,
    HostMemory,
    Cache,
    LocalStorage,
    RemoteStorage
};

ModelAndBatchMemoryRequirement MUST_FIT AvailableMemoryOrUsePartitioningOffloadOrStreaming;

# ---------- CLUSTER ----------
AICluster :=
    MultipleComputeNodes
    CONNECTED_FOR
    DistributedAIWorkloads;

Cluster MAY_SUPPORT {
    DistributedTraining,
    ParallelInference,
    BatchProcessing,
    DataPreparation
};

# ---------- INTERCONNECT ----------
HighSpeedInterconnect CONNECTS AcceleratorsOrNodes;

InterconnectProperty := {
    Bandwidth,
    Latency,
    Topology,
    Reliability
};

DistributedTrainingPerformance MAY_DEPEND_ON InterconnectPerformance;

# ---------- STORAGE ----------
AIStorage MAY_INCLUDE {
    ObjectStorage,
    DistributedFileSystem,
    BlockStorage,
    LocalNVMe,
    DatasetRepository,
    ModelRepository
};

Storage HOLDS {
    Dataset,
    Checkpoint,
    ModelArtifact,
    Log,
    FeatureData
};

# ---------- DATA PIPELINE ----------
DataPipeline :=
    Ingest
    -> Validate
    -> Clean
    -> Transform
    -> Version
    -> DeliverToTrainingOrInference;

DataPipeline SHOULD_PRESERVE Provenance;

# ---------- DATA VERSIONING ----------
DatasetVersion :=
    IdentifiedImmutableOrTraceableStateOfDataset;

TrainingRun SHOULD_REFERENCE DatasetVersion;

DataVersioning SUPPORTS Reproducibility;

# ---------- FEATURE STORE ----------
FeatureStore :=
    ManagedSystemForReusableMachineLearningFeatures;

FeatureStore MAY_SUPPORT {
    OfflineFeatures,
    OnlineFeatures,
    FeatureMetadata,
    Versioning
};

TrainingServingSkew MAY_OCCUR_IF FeatureDefinitionsDifferBetweenTrainingAndInference;

# ---------- EMBEDDING STORE ----------
Embedding :=
    DenseVectorRepresentationOfEntityOrContent;

EmbeddingStore STORES Embedding;

VectorIndex ENABLES SimilaritySearchOverEmbeddings;

# ---------- TRAINING JOB ----------
TrainingJob :=
    {
        CodeVersion,
        DatasetVersion,
        ModelConfiguration,
        Hyperparameters,
        ComputeAllocation,
        RuntimeEnvironment
    };

TrainingJob ->
    AllocateResources
    -> LoadData
    -> InitialiseModel
    -> OptimiseParameters
    -> SaveCheckpoint
    -> ProduceModelArtifact;

# ---------- DISTRIBUTED TRAINING ----------
DistributedTraining :=
    TrainingWorkload
    -> PartitionAcross MultipleComputeResources
    -> SynchroniseModelOrGradientState
    -> ContinueOptimisation;

Parallelism MAY_INCLUDE {
    DataParallelism,
    ModelParallelism,
    PipelineParallelism,
    TensorParallelism
};

# ---------- DATA PARALLELISM ----------
DataParallelism :=
    ReplicateModel
    + PartitionTrainingBatch
    -> ComputeLocalUpdates
    -> AggregateUpdates;

CommunicationCost MAY_LIMIT ScalingEfficiency;

# ---------- MODEL PARALLELISM ----------
ModelParallelism :=
    PartitionModelAcrossComputeResources;

ModelParallelism MAY_BE_REQUIRED_IF ModelDoesNotFitSingleDevice;

# ---------- CHECKPOINT ----------
Checkpoint :=
    SavedTrainingState;

Checkpoint MAY_INCLUDE {
    ModelParameters,
    OptimiserState,
    TrainingStep,
    RandomState
};

IF TrainingInterrupted
AND ValidCheckpointExists
THEN Training MAY_RESUME_FROM Checkpoint;

# ---------- EXPERIMENT TRACKING ----------
ExperimentRun :=
    {
        CodeVersion,
        DataVersion,
        Parameters,
        Metrics,
        Artifacts,
        Environment
    };

ExperimentTracker STORES ExperimentRun;

ExperimentTracking SUPPORTS ComparisonAndReproducibility;

# ---------- MODEL REGISTRY ----------
ModelRegistry :=
    ManagedRepositoryOfModelVersionsAndMetadata;

ModelVersion MAY_HAVE {
    Identifier,
    Metrics,
    TrainingRun,
    DatasetVersion,
    ApprovalState,
    DeploymentState
};

# ---------- EVALUATION ----------
ModelEvaluation :=
    Model
    + EvaluationDataset
    + Metrics
    -> EvaluationResult;

DeploymentPolicy MAY_REQUIRE MinimumEvaluationCriteria;

# ---------- MODEL DEPLOYMENT ----------
ModelDeployment :=
    ApprovedModelVersion
    -> Package
    -> ProvisionServingEnvironment
    -> LoadModel
    -> ExposeInferenceInterface;

Deployment MAY_BE {
    OnlineServing,
    BatchInference,
    EdgeDeployment
};

# ---------- INFERENCE ----------
Inference :=
    Input
    -> Preprocess
    -> ModelExecution
    -> Postprocess
    -> Output;

InferenceService :=
    RuntimeServiceExecutingModelInference;

# ---------- ONLINE INFERENCE ----------
OnlineInference :=
    Request
    -> LowLatencyModelExecution
    -> Response;

OnlineServing MAY_REQUIRE {
    Autoscaling,
    LoadBalancing,
    Caching,
    HealthChecks
};

# ---------- BATCH INFERENCE ----------
BatchInference :=
    Dataset
    -> ScheduledModelExecution
    -> OutputDataset;

BatchInference MAY_PRIORITISE ThroughputOverInteractiveLatency;

# ---------- MODEL SERVER ----------
ModelServer :=
    SoftwareRuntimeForLoadingAndServingModels;

ModelServer MAY_SUPPORT {
    Batching,
    MultipleModels,
    HardwareAcceleration,
    VersionRouting
};

# ---------- REQUEST BATCHING ----------
InferenceBatching :=
    CombineMultipleRequests
    -> ExecuteTogether
    -> SplitResponses;

Batching MAY_INCREASE Throughput;
Batching MAY_INCREASE WaitingLatency;

# ---------- AUTOSCALING ----------
Autoscaling :=
    ObservedDemand
    -> AdjustServingResources;

ScalingSignal MAY_INCLUDE {
    RequestRate,
    QueueDepth,
    GPUUtilisation,
    Latency
};

# ---------- CONTAINER ----------
AIWorkload MAY_BE PackagedIn Container;

Container MAY_INCLUDE {
    Runtime,
    Libraries,
    ModelCode,
    Dependencies
};

Containerisation SUPPORTS EnvironmentConsistency;

# ---------- ORCHESTRATION ----------
Orchestrator :=
    SystemManagingWorkloadPlacementLifecycleAndResources;

Orchestrator MAY {
    ScheduleTrainingJob,
    DeployInferenceService,
    RestartFailedWorkload,
    ScaleReplicaCount
};

# ---------- SCHEDULER ----------
Scheduler MATCHES WorkloadResourceRequest TO AvailableCompute;

Scheduling MAY_CONSIDER {
    AcceleratorType,
    Memory,
    Priority,
    Locality,
    Quota
};

# ---------- RESOURCE QUOTA ----------
Quota :=
    LimitOnResourceConsumptionByUserTeamOrWorkload;

Quota MAY_CONTROL {
    GPUCount,
    CPUCount,
    Memory,
    Storage
};

# ---------- OBSERVABILITY ----------
AIObservability := {
    InfrastructureMetrics,
    TrainingMetrics,
    InferenceMetrics,
    Logs,
    Traces,
    ModelMetrics
};

MonitoringSystem COLLECTS AIObservability;

# ---------- TRAINING METRICS ----------
TrainingMetric MAY_INCLUDE {
    Loss,
    Accuracy,
    LearningRate,
    Throughput,
    StepTime,
    AcceleratorUtilisation
};

# ---------- INFERENCE METRICS ----------
InferenceMetric MAY_INCLUDE {
    RequestLatency,
    Throughput,
    ErrorRate,
    QueueTime,
    BatchSize,
    ResourceUtilisation
};

# ---------- MODEL MONITORING ----------
ModelMonitoring MAY_TRACK {
    PredictionDistribution,
    DataDrift,
    ConceptDrift,
    AccuracyWhereLabelsAvailable,
    Fairness,
    Confidence
};

ModelQuality MAY_CHANGE_WITH ProductionData;

# ---------- DRIFT ----------
DataDrift :=
    ProductionInputDistributionChangesRelativeToReference;

ConceptDrift :=
    InputOutcomeRelationshipChanges;

IF DriftSignificant
THEN EvaluationOrRetraining MAY_BE_REQUIRED;

# ---------- RELIABILITY ----------
AIReliability MAY_REQUIRE {
    RedundantServing,
    Checkpointing,
    Retry,
    HealthChecks,
    Failover,
    CapacityPlanning
};

# ---------- FAILURE ----------
AIInfrastructureFailure := {
    ComputeFailure,
    AcceleratorFailure,
    NetworkFailure,
    StorageFailure,
    JobFailure,
    ServingFailure,
    DependencyFailure
};

FailureImpact DEPENDS_ON WorkloadAndRedundancy;

# ---------- SECURITY ----------
AIInfrastructureSecurity MAY_INCLUDE {
    IdentityManagement,
    Authorisation,
    NetworkIsolation,
    SecretManagement,
    Encryption,
    ArtifactIntegrity,
    Audit
};

ModelAndDataset MAY_BE SensitiveAssets;

# ---------- SUPPLY CHAIN ----------
AISoftwareSupplyChain MAY_INCLUDE {
    Code,
    Library,
    ContainerImage,
    ModelArtifact,
    Dataset
};

ArtifactProvenance SUPPORTS IntegrityAndTrust;

# ---------- PRIVACY ----------
AIInfrastructure MAY_PROCESS SensitiveData;

PrivacyControl MAY_INCLUDE {
    DataMinimisation,
    AccessRestriction,
    Encryption,
    RetentionControl,
    Isolation
};

# ---------- COST ----------
AIInfrastructureCost :=
    f(
        ComputeTime,
        AcceleratorUse,
        Storage,
        NetworkTransfer,
        ServingDemand
    );

CostOptimisation SHOULD_CONSIDER PerformanceAndReliability;

# ---------- ENERGY ----------
AIEnergyConsumption :=
    Power
    * Runtime;

EnergyEfficiency MAY_BE ImprovedBy {
    EfficientHardware,
    HigherUtilisation,
    ReducedTrainingWaste,
    ModelOptimisation
};

# ---------- MODEL OPTIMISATION ----------
DeploymentOptimisation MAY_INCLUDE {
    Quantisation,
    Pruning,
    Distillation,
    Compilation,
    Batching
};

Optimisation SHOULD_PRESERVE RequiredModelQuality;

# ---------- MLOPS ----------
MLOps :=
    PracticesAndSystemsForOperationalisingMachineLearningLifecycle;

MLOps MAY_INCLUDE {
    DataVersioning,
    ExperimentTracking,
    ContinuousTraining,
    ModelRegistry,
    DeploymentAutomation,
    Monitoring
};

# ---------- CI/CD FOR AI ----------
AIDeliveryPipeline :=
    CodeOrModelChange
    -> Validate
    -> Test
    -> Evaluate
    -> Package
    -> Deploy
    -> Monitor;

AutomatedDeployment SHOULD_INCLUDE AppropriateQualityAndSafetyGates;

# ---------- SEMANTIC REASONING ----------
IF InfrastructureProvidesComputeDataAndOperationalSystemsForAIWorkloads
THEN AIInfrastructureClassification := supported;

IF ModelTooLargeForSingleAcceleratorMemory
THEN ModelParallelismOrOffload MAY_BE_REQUIRED;

IF DistributedTrainingCommunicationDominatesCompute
THEN ScalingEfficiency := decrease;

IF TrainingRunDoesNotReferenceDataAndCodeVersions
THEN Reproducibility := decrease;

IF InferenceLatencyExceedsTarget
THEN ServingCapacityOrModelOptimisation SHOULD_BE_EVALUATED;

IF ProductionDataDrifts
THEN ModelPerformanceRisk := increase;

IF ModelArtifactLacksProvenance
THEN SupplyChainTrust := decrease;

# ---------- SEMANTIC EQUIVALENCE ----------
SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE {
    "AI infrastructure" ~= "artificial intelligence infrastructure";
    "ML infrastructure" ~= "machine learning infrastructure";
    "AI compute" ~= "machine learning compute infrastructure";
    "model serving" ~= "inference serving";
    "model registry" ~= "ML model registry";
    "experiment tracking" ~= "machine learning experiment tracking";
    "distributed training" ~= "multi-device or multi-node model training";
    "MLOps" ~= "machine learning operations";
}

# ---------- QUERY FLOW ----------
QUERY(q) ->
    NORMALISE(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_AI_WORKLOAD(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_COMPUTE_REQUIREMENTS(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_DATA_AND_STORAGE(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_TRAINING_OR_INFERENCE(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_ORCHESTRATION(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_MODEL_LIFECYCLE(q) ->
    IDENTIFY_OBSERVABILITY_SECURITY_RELIABILITY(q) ->
    MAP_TO_ONTOLOGY(q) ->
    APPLY_REASONING(q) ->
    SCORE_CONFIDENCE(q) ->
    RETURN_RELEVANT_KNOWLEDGE;

# ---------- CONFIDENCE ----------
CONFIDENCE(assertion) :=
    weighted_mean(
        source_reliability,
        infrastructure_consistency,
        workload_evidence,
        operational_evidence,
        semantic_consistency,
        contextual_relevance
    );

CONFIDENCE >= 0.90 => HIGH;
CONFIDENCE >= 0.70 AND < 0.90 => MODERATE;
CONFIDENCE < 0.70 => REVIEW;

# ---------- AI CONSUMPTION ----------
AI_CONSUMPTION {
    primary_entity: ArtificialIntelligenceInfrastructure;
    parse_entities: true;
    parse_relationships: true;
    preserve_relationship_direction: true;
    resolve_semantic_equivalence: true;
    execute_reasoning_rules: true;
    apply_confidence_weighting: true;
    preserve_provenance: true;
    permit_hierarchical_expansion: true;
}

# ---------- UPDATE MODEL ----------
UPDATE_MODEL {
    new_compute_resource:
        validate
        -> classify
        -> identify_accelerator_memory_network
        -> relate_to_workloads
        -> integrate;

    new_training_run:
        identify_code_version
        -> identify_dataset_version
        -> identify_compute
        -> identify_metrics
        -> identify_model_artifact
        -> integrate;

    new_model_version:
        attach_training_provenance
        -> attach_evaluation
        -> register
        -> identify_deployment_state
        -> integrate;

    infrastructure_revision:
        update_resources
        -> update_workloads
        -> update_serving_relationships
        -> recompute_reliability
        -> recompute_confidence
        -> regenerate_flow_hash;

    conflict:
        preserve_provenance
        -> compare_operational_evidence
        -> adjust_confidence
        -> flag_review;
}

# ---------- FLOW HASH ----------
FLOW_HASH_INPUT :=
    DOMAIN
    + SUBDOMAIN
    + AIInfrastructureEntity
    + OperationalEntity
    + DataEntity
    + InfrastructureLayer
    + DistributedTraining
    + ModelDeployment
    + MLOps
    + RELATIONSHIPS
    + SEMANTIC_REASONING
    + SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    + UPDATE_MODEL;

FLOW_HASH :=
    HASH(FLOW_HASH_INPUT);

# ---------- TERMINAL ----------
ArtificialIntelligenceInfrastructure
    -> DefineAIWorkload
    -> AcquireAndVersionData
    -> ProvisionComputeAndStorage
    -> ConfigureRuntimeEnvironment
    -> TrainAndCheckpointModel
    -> EvaluateAndRegisterModel
    -> DeployInferenceService
    -> ScaleAndRouteRequests
    -> MonitorInfrastructureAndModel
    -> DetectFailureOrDrift
    -> UpdateRetrainOrOptimise
    -> PreserveSecurityAndProvenance
    -> MaintainReliableAILifecycle;

END FLOW