What is latency budget design in classification systems?

Latency budget design allocates time limits across components in a classification pipeline.

In production systems, total latency (e.g., 100ms) is divided across API gateway, feature retrieval, model inference, and post-processing. Engineers design budgets to ensure no single component dominates latency. Techniques include caching, async calls, and model simplification. Violating budget leads to SLA breaches and degraded user experience.