Optimize Agentic AI: Algorithms for Peak Performance is an intermediate course for AI practitioners and engineers aiming to build fast, scalable, and responsive agentic systems. In the real world, an AI agent's intelligence is useless if it is too slow. This course equips learners with the tools to diagnose and solve these critical performance bottlenecks.

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Optimize Agentic AI: Algorithms for Peak Performance
This course is part of Agentic AI Development & Security Specialization

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Diagnose and resolve AI performance bottlenecks by applying advanced algorithms and computational complexity analysis to optimize agentic systems.
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There are 2 modules in this course
This module moves beyond basic search methods to teach you how to implement and measure the impact of sophisticated planning algorithms. You will learn why brute-force search fails at scale and how to replace it with an informed algorithm such as beam search. By the end, you will be able to quantitatively measure the performance gains from your optimization, directly addressing the first core job task.
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2 videos2 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab
In this module, you will learn to diagnose the hidden costs in an agent's reasoning process. You will master the use of Big-O notation to analyze complexity and use profiling tools to pinpoint the exact source of a bottleneck. You will then apply this analysis to implement a data structure optimization that dramatically improves performance, preparing you to write and submit your final optimization project.
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