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LLM and Retrieval Fundamentals: sections and modules

T2Required

LLM and Retrieval Fundamentals

Understand LLM behaviour and build retrieval correctly.

For whom: All technical paths
Time: 14 h 51 min
Before this track: Orientation

Objectives

Choose chunking and retrieval strategy for a corpus and justify it

Engineers must reason about tokens, context and cost.

T2.1
How LLMs behave, for engineers
3 h 1 min · 3 lessons
Partly ready
3 lessons
T2.6
ML fundamentals for applied engineers
4 h
Coming soon

Exercise: Token and cost estimator exercise
Done when: Checkpoint ≥ 70%

RAG is the most-asked applied pattern.

T2.2
RAG from first principles
1 h 54 min · 6 lessons
6 lessons
T2.3
Chunking and indexing
2 h 53 min · 8 lessons
8 lessons
T2.4
Retrieval: hybrid, rerank, query transformation
4 h 4 min · 7 lessons
7 lessons
T2.5
Frameworks: LangChain and LangGraph
2 h 59 min · 8 lessons
8 lessons

Exercise: P2 RAG over a messy corpus
Done when: P2 rubric ≥ 3