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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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  • Incentives for Bootcamp Graduates
  • Additional Prizes for the Top 6 Projects
  • Judging Criteria
  • Terms and Conditions for all the Learners
  1. Final Project + Giveaways

Prizes and Giveaways

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Last updated 10 months ago

Our aim with these awards is not just to celebrate your accomplishments, but also to inspire you to contribute to the open-source community, complete the bootcamp, and unlock the full potential of Real-Time Large Language Model Applications using the LLM App.

To that end, we're thrilled to announce a diverse array of prizes and incentives. We hope these serve as a valuable addition to your professional profile—like having your standout project featured on Pathway's official blog—or offer personal enrichment through coveted gadgets, ranging from gaming controllers to specialized camera lenses for photography aficionados. 🏆🎮📸

Incentives for Bootcamp Graduates

  • Completion Reward: Every graduate with a valid submission will receive a cool Pathway T-shirt and a certificate.

  • Featured Projects: The most impactful projects will be showcased on Pathway's official blog which is read by some of the finest researchers and data professionals. We hope this will be a valuable addition to participants' professional profiles. There's no minimum or maximum number for this and it depends on the quality of submissions we receive.

Criteria for Bootcamp Graduation Certificate

  • You will submit your project by filling out the Google Form for project submission when released.

  • Projects must adhere to the guidelines mentioned in the previous module.

Additional Prizes for the Top 6 Projects

  • Top 2 Projects/Individuals: Wireless Microsoft XBOX controller

  • Next 2: JBL waterproof portable speaker

  • Next 2: Phone Camera Lens

Additional Criteria for Blog Feature & Top 6 Prizes

These criteria are only for the blog feature and the top 6 prizes and not for bootcamp graduation:

  • The project must be novel and not a retrofitted version of an existing project.

  • Utilize the Pathway and its real-time data features for eligibility in top rankings.

  • Ensure the project is open-source with a GitHub repository that includes a project description, a video demo, a clear methodology, and a functional prototype.

  • Utilize the LLM App to create impactful solutions in areas like customer support automation, data insights, real-time monitoring, and healthcare, or to enable cross-functional collaboration using real-time data; their project can also serve open-ended consumer, developer, or B2B needs across various domains. We're sharing a few tracks in the next section that can be a good starting point for you.

  • Share the project demo on LinkedIn or Twitter, explaining its key purpose and how you're using the LLM App to build a solution that solves business or social challenges. While sharing the project, tag or . This is not mandatory but is strongly encouraged as it helps your project attract peer reviewers and the attention of potential recruiters or customers.

Judging Criteria

  • Code Quality - Code and GitHub Repository is easy to understand and reproducible

  • Usage of Pathway and Technical Implementation - How Pathway and other tools (let's say Ollama, Langchain, etc.) are understood and used.

  • Creativity & originality - The solution is original and differentiates itself from existing solutions and the other submissions.

  • Social or Business Value - The solution creates clear additional value beyond competition for businesses, society, developers, or end consumers.

Terms and Conditions for all the Learners

  • Ownership & Rights: While participants maintain ownership of their projects, they grant Pathway and the teams operating under the Developers' Society at BITS Goa to feature their work on respective blogs if selected for an official blog feature.

  • Organizer's Discretion: The organizers hold the authority to determine winners and reserve the right to disqualify any participant who violates the Terms and Conditions or engages in misconduct.

  • Plagiarism: Plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification, with or without prior notice. Participants must ensure that they submit an original work.

  • Attribution: If participants utilize open-source resources or someone else's work as a component of their project, proper credit must be given.

  • Technical Responsibility: Participants bear the responsibility for their own hardware, software, and internet connectivity.

  • T-shirt & Prize Logistics:

    • Certificates will be sent to the qualified graduates via email.

    • T-shirts and prizes will be shipped to the submitted address (unless located in areas restricted by Indian or French law) or can be picked up at the BITS Goa campus after a timeframe that will be communicated soon. Generally, it takes 3-4 weeks after having the final list of bootcamp grads as these are custom t-shirts. :)

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