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AI Engineering

Build LLM applications, retrieval pipelines and agents, from the first prompt to multi-agent systems.

Tracks
14
Notebooks
371
By
Sourav Banerjee
  • T2Required

    AI Engineering Foundations

    Python and data tools, LLM provider APIs and model choice, and open models from the Hugging Face Hub

    3 modules40 notebooks

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  • T5Required

    RAG Foundations: Ingestion & Indexing

    Why retrieval exists, a measured baseline, and the ingestion pipeline: loaders, metadata, chunking, embeddings, vector stores and index design

    6 modules52 notebooks

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  • T6Required

    Retrieval Quality & RAG Applications

    Hybrid search, query transformation and reranking, then complete RAG applications with citations, structured data, images and LlamaIndex

    6 modules47 notebooks

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  • T7Required

    Agent Foundations

    The agent loop and tool calling by hand, ReAct with create_agent and middleware, and the five agentic workflow patterns

    3 modules32 notebooks

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  • T8Required

    Advanced Agents

    Planning, reflection and search over reasoning paths; coding, computer-use and deep agents; human approval and applied single-agent builds

    3 modules32 notebooks

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  • T9Required

    Agentic RAG

    Retrieval inside a control loop: grading and rewriting, CRAG and Self-RAG, adaptive routing, RAG as a tool, and feedback loops

    5 modules16 notebooks

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  • T10Required

    The Memory Layer

    Short-term conversation state and context trimming, then long-term semantic, episodic and procedural memory for agents

    2 modules21 notebooks

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  • T11Required

    Multi-Agent Systems

    When several agents beat one, the five architectures, supervisors, swarms, blackboards and parallel agents, and applied multi-agent builds

    3 modules36 notebooks

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  • T12Required

    Agent Protocols: MCP & A2A

    Expose tools, data and whole agents as services with the Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent

    4 modules10 notebooks

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  • T13Optional

    Knowledge Graphs & GraphRAG

    Hierarchical and memory-augmented retrieval, knowledge graphs in Neo4j, and GraphRAG for global and multi-hop questions

    3 modules14 notebooks

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  • T14Optional

    Fine-Tuning & Model Adaptation

    Whether to fine-tune or retrieve: when a model needs new behaviour rather than new facts, and how to adapt one through instruction tuning, data preparation, training and evaluation

    1 modules13 notebooks

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  • T15Optional

    Architecture Decisions

    The decision that closes the course: which architecture to build for the capstone, and why each component beats a simpler one

    1 modules1 notebook

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