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Generative AI with Large Language Models

  • Practice in 26 Hands-On Labs — nothing to install
  • 5 Interactive Lessons and 66 topics mapped to the official exam objectives

Intermediate Self-paced ยท 1 year access

26 Hands-On LiveLabs

Practice real IT tasks in guided environments.

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5Interactive Lessons
66Topics
26LiveLab
14Videos
152Flashcards
152Glossary of terms

01 / Lessons & labs

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Lessons

5 Interactive Lessons · 66 topics
01 Fundamentals of Generative AI and LLMs 22 topics · 7 LiveLab
  • Foundation Models
  • A brief history of how transformers were born
  • The new role of AI professionals
  • The rise of seamless transformer APIs
  • The rise of the Transformer: Attention Is All You Need
  • Training and performance
  • Hugging Face transformer models
  • The paradigm shift: What is an NLP task?
  • Investigating the potential of downstream tasks
  • Running downstream tasks
  • Matching datasets and tokenizers
  • Exploring sentence and WordPiece tokenizers to u...fficiency of subword tokenizers for transformers
  • Designing a universal text-to-text model
  • The rise of text-to-text transformer models
  • A prefix instead of task-specific formats
  • The T5 model
  • Text summarization with T5
  • From text-to-text to new word predictions with OpenAI ChatGPT
  • Part I: Defining generative ideation
  • Part II: Automating prompt design for generative image design
  • Part III: Automated generative ideation with Stable Diffusion
  • The future is yours!

7 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

02 Optimization Techniques for Scalable LLMs 14 topics · 8 LiveLab
  • Why Mixture of Experts?
  • Architecture & Algorithmic Design
  • System Engineering Challenges
  • Why Knowledge Distillation?
  • Comparison between Knowledge Distillation and Traditional Approaches
  • Distillation Strategies: Architectures of Transfer
  • Training a tokenizer and pretraining a transformer
  • Building KantaiBERT from scratch
  • Pretraining a Generative AI customer support model on X data
  • Getting Started Training Vision Models without Coding
  • Uploading the dataset
  • Training models with AutoTrain
  • Deploying a model
  • Running our models for inference

8 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

03 Fine-Tuning LLMs for Domain-Specific Tasks 9 topics · 5 LiveLab
  • GPTs as GPTs
  • The architecture of OpenAI GPT transformer models
  • OpenAI models as assistants
  • Getting started with the GPT-4 API
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with GPT-4
  • Transformer visualization with BertViz
  • Interpreting Hugging Face transformers with SHAP
  • Transformer visualization via dictionary learning
  • Other interpretable AI tools

5 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

04 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems 14 topics · 3 LiveLab
  • The architecture of BERT
  • Fine-tuning BERT
  • Building a Python interface to interact with the model
  • Risk management
  • Fine-tuning a GPT model for completion (generative)
  • Preparing the dataset
  • Fine-tuning an original model
  • Running the fine-tuned GPT model
  • Managing fine-tuned jobs and models
  • Before leaving
  • LLM embeddings as an alternative to fine-tuning
  • Fundamentals of text embedding with NLTK and Gensim
  • Implementing question-answering systems with embedding-based search techniques
  • Transfer learning with Ada embeddings

3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

05 Controlling Hallucination and Ensuring Factuality in LLMs 7 topics · 3 LiveLab
  • The emergence of functional AGI
  • Cutting-edge platform installation limitations
  • Auto-BIG-bench
  • WandB
  • When will AI agents replicate?
  • Risk management
  • Risk mitigation tools with RLHF and RAG

3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

Hands-On Labs Our edge

26 LiveLabs
  • Training, Evaluating, and Visualizing a Machine Learning Classifier
  • Implementing Multi-Head Attention and Post-Layer Normalization
  • Exploring Positional Encoding in Transformer Models
  • Visualizing Decision Boundaries with k-NN Using 1000 Random Samples
  • Running Downstream Transformer Tasks
  • Exploring Tokenizers in Modern NLP Using HuggingFace
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