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RAG and LLM Bootcamp
  • Welcome to the Bootcamp
    • Course Structure
    • Course Syllabus and Timelines
    • Know your Educators
    • Action Items and Prerequisites
    • Kick-Off Session for the Bootcamp
  • Basics of LLMs
    • What is Generative AI?
    • What is a Large Language Model?
    • Advantages and Applications of LLMs
    • Bonus Resource: Multimodal LLMs and Google Gemini
  • Word Vectors, Simplified
    • What is a Word Vector?
    • Word Vector Relationships
    • Role of Context in LLMs
    • Transforming Vectors into LLM Responses
    • Bonus: Overview of the Transformer Architecture
      • Attention Mechanism
      • Multi-Head Attention and Transformer Architecture
      • Vision Transformers (ViTs)
    • Bonus: Future of LLMs? | By Transformer Co-inventor
    • Graded Quiz 1
  • Prompt Engineering and Token Limits
    • What is Prompt Engineering
    • Prompt Engineering and In-context Learning
    • For Starters: Best Practices
    • Navigating Token Limits
    • Hallucinations in LLMs
    • Prompt Engineering Excercise (Ungraded)
      • Story for the Excercise: The eSports Enigma
      • Your Task fror the Module
  • RAG and LLM Architecture
    • What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)?
    • Primer to RAG: Pre-trained and Fine-Tuned LLMs
    • In-context Learning
    • High-level LLM Architecture Components for In-context Learning
    • Diving Deeper: LLM Architecture Components
    • Basic RAG Architecture with Key Components
    • RAG versus Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering
    • Versatility and Efficiency in RAG
    • Key Benefits of using RAG in an Enterprise/Production Setup
    • Hands-on Demo: Performing Similarity Search in Vectors (Bonus Module)
    • Using kNN and LSH to Enhance Similarity Search (Bonus Module)
    • Bonus Video: Implementing End-to-End RAG | 1-Hour Session
    • Graded Quiz 2
  • Hands-on Development
    • Prerequisites (Must)
    • Docker Basics
    • Your Hands-on RAG Journey
    • 1 – First RAG Pipeline
      • Building with Open AI
      • How it Works
      • Using Open AI Alternatives
      • RAG with Open Source and Running "Examples"
    • 2 – Amazon Discounts App
      • How the Project Works
      • Building the App
    • 3 – Private RAG with Mistral, Ollama and Pathway
      • Building a Private RAG project
      • (Bonus) Adaptive RAG Overview
    • 4 – Realtime RAG with LlamaIndex/Langchain and Pathway
      • Understand the Basics
      • Implementation with LlamaIndex and Langchain
  • Final Project + Giveaways
    • Prizes and Giveaways
    • Suggested Tracks for Ideation
    • Sample Projects and Additional Resources
    • Submit Project for Review
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  • Encouragement for Innovation

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Note: The last day to submit your project is now 7th July 2024, 11:59 pm CEST.

As we approach the conclusion of this bootcamp, we'll apply your acquired knowledge to practical applications. The current deadline for submitting the project is .

To guide you, we have selected a range of ideas/tracks (which are optional) but you can use them for ideation if needed. However, we encourage you to go beyond and think of a few ideas by looking at the problems around you, as that's one of the better approaches to problem solving. 🌟

You should also explore the resources listed under prerequisites so the hands-on module is easier for you to finish. If you're done with that as well, you could share your learning journey with us and the world out there; learning in public comes with a dozen advantages anyway.

Now, let's quickly revisit the mandatory requirements for completing the bootcamp.

Criteria for Successfully Complete the Bootcamp

1 – Complete the Quizzes

  • Ensure you complete the required quizzes: one in the Vector Embeddings module and another in the RAG module, which will be released as per the schedule.

2 – Project Development

  • Task: Develop a real-time or static RAG-based LLM application completely using or / .

  • Publish: Publish your open-source project on your GitHub with a clear README that includes a video demo. We emphasize this as it makes it easy for course instructors, developers in the community, or your potential employers to evaluate what you've built

  • Submission: Submit the project link through the form provided.

3 – Project Guidelines

  • Option to Modify an Existing Project: If building an LLM application from scratch seems daunting, consider modifying an existing we've seen earlier discussed. Adapt it to create an application with significant business or social value. For inspiration, look at for a better comprehension of the EU AI Act. This being said a direct replica of any published project will not be accepted.

  • Project Requirements:

    • Data Source: Your project should use dynamic (preferred) or static data sources.

    • Open Source: Ensure your project is open source, hosted on GitHub with a clear README.md file and a License file as a best practice. Ref: / .

    • Documentation: The README.md must include:

      • A demo video link or GIF for a quick overview of your application.

      • A clear description explaining the purpose of your project and how it utilizes Pathway, Langchain, LlamaIndex, Ollama (sample ), etc.

      • Instructions for setting up and running the tool.

  • Originality: Your project must be original, not plagiarized, and not a direct replica of any course materials, publicly available projects, or those submitted by peers.

  • Bonus: If you publish your project as a tutorial on any popular developer publication (e.g. Freecodecamp, Dev.to, GFG, KDNuggets, Towards Data Science, etc.) it becomes significant proof of clear documentation and implementation for the team at Pathway and your future collaborators/employers. However, at times it may take additional efforts (simply copy-pasted Gen AI articles also need refinement) so it's not a mandatory thing. But its importance cannot be overstated.

  • While using an existing open source project as a foundation is acceptable, we encourage you to innovate and create something unique. Challenge yourself to develop a project that tests your cognitive abilities and engineering skills.

  • If the idea of creating an LLM application from the ground up (like the one we saw in the Amazon Discounts case) feels overwhelming, you have the option to build upon the existing examples discussed earlier. By tailoring it to meet specific needs, you can construct an application that holds substantial business or social value.

Encouragement for Innovation

What are additional incentives beyond learning for building a novel application? Let's see

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