Advanced RAG

This course is designed for AI engineers, MLOps engineers, Solutions and Enterprise Architects, and Software Developers who are building (or want to build) AI applications in an enterprise environment. Students will learn the main concepts of successful AI applications using LLMs, which are essential to achieving high levels of performance and accuracy.

Lesson 0.0: Course Introductions

• Video: Mastering LLM Introduction

Lesson 1.0: Understanding the Basics of RAG

• Video: 1.0 Simple RAG Introduction
• Topics covered:
• Definition and overview of RAG
• Importance of RAG in enhancing language model capabilities
• Using vector databases
• Naive embedding methods
• Basic applications and examples of RAG

Lesson 1.1: Building Simple RAG Example

• Video: Simple RAG notebook
• Hands-on lab: 01_simple_rag notebook

Lesson 1.2: Issues with Simple RAG

• Video: Issues with simple RAG - Recall Precision Tradeoff

Lesson 2.0: Embedding Introduction

• Video: Embedding Introduction

Lesson 2.1: Hands-on Lab: Embedding - Tokenization

• Video: Tokenization
• Notebook: 02_embedding_notebook

Lesson 2.2: Hands-on Lab: Embedding - Vocabulary

• Video: Vocabulary

Lesson 2.3: Hands-on Lab: Embedding - Sentence Embedding

• Video: Sentence Embedding

Lesson 2.4: Hands-on Lab: Embedding - Content Embedding

• Video: Context Embedding

Lesson 2.5: Embedding Notebook Summary

• Video: Embedding Summary

Lesson 3.0: Chunking Introduction

• Video: Chunking Introduction

Lesson 3.1: Hands-on Lab: Semantic Chunking

• Video: Chunking Notebook
• Notebook: 03_semantic_chunking

Lesson 4.0: Chunking Overview

• Video: Chunking Overview

Lesson 4.1: Hands-on Lab: Contextual Retrieval

• Video: Contextual Retrieval
• Notebook: 04_contextual_retrieval

Lesson 4.2: Query Document Alignment

• Video: Query Document Alignment

Lesson 4.3: Hands-on Lab: Reverse Hyde

• Video: Reverse Hyde Notebook
• Notebook: 05_reverse_hyde

Lesson 5.0: Hybrid Search Introduction

• Video: Hybrid Search Introduction

Lesson 5.1: Hands-on Lab: Hybrid Search

• Video: Hybrid Search
• Notebook: 06_hybrid_search

Lesson 5.2: Hands-on Lab: Reranking

• Video: Reranking
• Notebook: 07_reranking

Lesson 6.0: Multimodal Retrieval Introduction

• Video: Multimodal Retrieval

Lesson 6.1: Hands-on Lab: Multimodal PDF Retrieval

• Video: Multimodal Retrieval
• Notebook: 08_muldimodal_pdf