Roadmap
Whats Gen AI ?
Fundamentals
ANN-Artificial neural networks basics
Transformer and encoder-decoder architectures
Tokenization
Attention mechanism
Differences between GPT, BERT, T5, etc.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Overview of LLMs
Open-source LLMs & Hugging Face
LangChain
Vector Databases (Vector DBs)
Llama Index
Gen AI Workflow
Model Training
Training locally ,via API
Pytorch & CUDA
System optimization for LLMs (Quantization, LoRA, PEFT, etc.)
Finetuning the LLM
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
Evaluation & Metrics
Model evaluation (BLEU, ROUGE, perplexity, etc.)
Prompt engineering strategies
Inference : Running and testing a trained model
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Backend Hosting & Serving (FastAPI )
Production best practices
Monitoring, logging, A/B testing of Gen AI applications
Scaling with GPUs/TPUs
Containerization (Docker) on Azure VMs