TMLC Academy

Important Links for The Program

Orientation Session (28th June)

GenAI Program Schedule

Understanding the key terms under AI Umbrella

Introduction to AI

Introduction to AI (Slides)

The Evolution of Transformers to Large Language Models (LLMs)

Introduction to Generative AI (GenAI)

4 important steps in Generative AI Pipeline

Steps to access OpenAI Playground

OpenAI API Usage Guide

OpenAI API Usage Notebook Guide

LLM model selection criteria and framework

Project 1: AI Support Ticket Triage System

Transformers, OpenAI API & Fine-tuning basics

Open-Source vs. Closed-Source Models in Generative AI

Basic Prompt Engineering Techniques

Introduction to Vector Embeddings

Hugging Face Models : An Introduction

Hugging Face Datasets : An Introduction

How to use BERT for simple tasks

HuggingFace Exercise

Quantization

Customer Support Ticket Tagging

Advanced Fine-tuning Techniques

Finetuning Llama 3.2 for Customer Support

Merge LoRa adapter model with Base model

Week 2: Session Recording

Optimization Methods for LLMs (PPO, DPO)

DPO optimized Fine-Tuning for Llama 3.2 1B for Organizational Security Protocols

GRPO Method for Fine-Tuning Local LLMs

Streamlit Session

Project 2: Fine-Tuning a Hugging Face Model for Customer Support or Organizational Use Case

End-to-End LLM Fine-Tuning

Introduction to RAG

Retrieval Augmented Generation

Vector Database

Introduction to LangChain

Introduction to Langchain

Personal Resource Assistant using Langchain

Retrieval Optimization Techniques

Hybrid Search and Re-ranking Optimization

Memory in LLMs

Week 3: Discussion on RAG Architectures, Designs and Methods

Week 3: Live Session PPT

Finetuning a Vector Embeddings Model

Introduction to LangGraph with Qdrant vector database and Cross-encoder Re-ranking models

Evaluating RAG results

Project 3: Building an Optimized RAG Pipeline for Legal Query Resolution

Current State of RAG

Building an Optimized RAG Pipeline for Legal Query Resolution

AI Agents : An Introduction

Introduction to Agents

Core Components of an AI Agent

Email Generating Agent with CrewAI

Tools in AI Agents

End to End Architecture of a Single Agent

What is a Multi-Agent System?

Multi AI Agent Blog Generator using CrewAI

LangChain Agents

LangGraph Agents

Designing Stateful AI Agents using LangGraph

Agentic RAG with Phidata

Serving AI Agent with FastAPI

Router in Agentic RAG

Human-in-Loop workflows for Agents

Corrective RAG (CRAG)

Market Research Copilot

Building Conversational Business Intelligence Agent

Project 4: Conversational BI Agent

Agent Evaluation and Observability

Build and Deploy Your First MCP Server

Project 5: Build Your Own Agentic AI Solution

Building a Multi-Agent Document Drafter

LLM Model Serving

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

GGUF (GPT-Generated Unified Format)

Llama.cpp -> Conversion from .safetensors to .gguf

Ollama: Running Large Language Models Locally with Ease

LLM Evaluation

LLM Evaluation PPT

vLLM: Enabling faster inference and serving for LLMs

Docker and Docker Compose

AWS Deployment

Cerebrium: Serverless Model Deployment

AWS Bedrock

Deploying a GenAI Application