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Retrieval Augmented Generation—RAG—is now the standard way to improve LLM accuracy and relevance. But building production-grade RAG systems requires far more than connecting an LLM to a vector database. In Build an Advanced RAG Application (From Scratch), you’ll learn RAG from first principles by creating a complete portfolio of end-to-end applications. You’ll build each component of the pipeline, ensuring full control over every part of the stack.
Written by former Google research scientist Hamza Farooq, this hands-on guide takes you from LLM and transformer fundamentals through keyword search and semantic retrieval to production RAG systems. You’ll build a hotel search engine with semantic ranking, implement semantic caching for cost-effective production deployments, develop autonomous AI agents powered by RAG context, and deploy optimized open-source LLMs. Through under-the-hood experience, you’ll master embeddings, chunking, reranking, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, fine-tuning, and more.
Written by former Google research scientist Hamza Farooq, this hands-on guide takes you from LLM and transformer fundamentals through keyword search and semantic retrieval to production RAG systems. You’ll build a hotel search engine with semantic ranking, implement semantic caching for cost-effective production deployments, develop autonomous AI agents powered by RAG context, and deploy optimized open-source LLMs. Through under-the-hood experience, you’ll master embeddings, chunking, reranking, vector databases, evaluation frameworks, fine-tuning, and more.
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- Design and implement efficient search algorithms for LLM applications
- Master deep customization techniques for every RAG pipeline component
- Model fine-tuning techniques for task-specific and domain adaptation
- Deploy quantized versions of open-source LLMs using vLLMs and Ollama
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For Python developers with NLP basics, who are ready to move beyond framework abstractions and build RAG systems optimized for their specific constraints.
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