Information processing apparatus, device inference system, and inference processing method

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing when loaded in and executed by the computer, the processing comprising:

• obtaining a copy of a first machine learning model from a first device that is connected via a communication unit, includes the first machine learning model, and is controlled based on a result of inference processing by the first machine learning model;
• holding the obtained copy of the first machine learning model in at least one memory, and
• executing, in response to a request for inference processing for a second device, the inference processing that uses the copy of the first machine learning model held in the at least one memory.

An inference processing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the inference processing method comprising:

• obtaining a copy of a first machine learning model from a first device that is connected via a communication unit, includes the first machine learning model, and is controlled based on a result of inference processing by the first machine learning model;
• holding the obtained copy of the first machine learning model in at least one memory, and
• executing, in response to a request for inference processing for a second device, the inference processing that uses the copy of the first machine learning model held in the at least one memory.