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Inference Engineering — Book Structure

• Author: Philip Kiely
• Format: PDF
• PDF pages: 259 (cover image on p.1; blank pages 2, 10 and others are layout spacers)
• Reading order: 11 sections. Chapter-01 is the unnumbered Preface; Chapter-02 is the book's “Chapter 0”, so reading number = book chapter + 2 (Chapter-09 = book Chapter 7). Appendices A and B are Chapter-10 and Chapter-11. Bookmark page numbers equal PDF page numbers.

Reading chapter	PDF pages	Section title
Chapter-01-Preface	11–16	Preface
Chapter-02-Inference	17–24	Chapter 0: Inference
Chapter-03-Prerequisites	25–40	Chapter 1: Prerequisites
Chapter-04-Models	41–72	Chapter 2: Models
Chapter-05-Hardware	73–94	Chapter 3: Hardware
Chapter-06-Software	95–118	Chapter 4: Software
Chapter-07-Techniques	119–154	Chapter 5: Techniques
Chapter-08-Modalities	155–178	Chapter 6: Modalities
Chapter-09-Production	179–210	Chapter 7: Production
Chapter-10-Appendix-A-Inference-Glossary	211–232	Appendix A: Inference Glossary
Chapter-11-Appendix-B-Recommended-Reading	233–258	Appendix B: Recommended Reading

Source Text Index

Extracted from source-file.pdf by tools/split_book.py. Read these instead of the PDF.

Folder	Section	PDF pages	Pages without extractable text
Front-Matter	Front matter (cover, title, contents)	1–10	1 (cover image), 2, 10
Chapter-01-Preface	Preface	11–16	none
Chapter-02-Inference	Chapter 0: Inference	17–24	18
Chapter-03-Prerequisites	Chapter 1: Prerequisites	25–40	26, 40
Chapter-04-Models	Chapter 2: Models	41–72	42, 72
Chapter-05-Hardware	Chapter 3: Hardware	73–94	74, 94
Chapter-06-Software	Chapter 4: Software	95–118	96, 118
Chapter-07-Techniques	Chapter 5: Techniques	119–154	120, 154
Chapter-08-Modalities	Chapter 6: Modalities	155–178	156
Chapter-09-Production	Chapter 7: Production	179–210	180
Chapter-10-Appendix-A-Inference-Glossary	Appendix A: Inference Glossary	211–232	212, 232
Chapter-11-Appendix-B-Recommended-Reading	Appendix B: Recommended Reading	233–258	234, 258
Back-Matter	Acknowledgements	259	none

All 259 pages are covered exactly once. The listed blank pages are layout spacers (chapter-opener backs), not lost figures. Figures inside chapters may still be images the text lost; check the PDF page only if asked.