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Master AI deployment, policy design, fine-tuning, and optimization. For teams building serious AI systems.

32 guides ยท ~277 minutes total

1

Model Compression: Smaller, Faster AI

Advanced

Compress AI models with quantization, pruning, and distillation. Deploy faster, cheaper models without sacrificing much accuracy.

7 min read

2

Quantization and Distillation Deep Dive

Advanced

Master advanced model compression: quantization-aware training, mixed precision, and distillation strategies for production deployment.

8 min read

3

Distributed Training for Large Models

Advanced

Scale AI training across multiple GPUs and machines. Learn data parallelism, model parallelism, and pipeline parallelism strategies.

8 min read

4

Advanced RAG Techniques

Advanced

Go beyond basic RAG: hybrid search, reranking, query expansion, HyDE, and multi-hop retrieval for better context quality.

9 min read

5

Multi-Agent AI Systems

Advanced

Build AI systems with multiple specialized agents that collaborate, debate, and solve complex tasks together.

7 min read

6

Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses

Advanced

Adversaries manipulate AI behavior through prompt injection. Learn attack vectors, detection, and defense strategies.

8 min read

7

AI Red Teaming: Finding Failures Before Users Do

Advanced

Systematically test AI systems for failures, biases, jailbreaks, and harmful outputs. Build robust AI through adversarial testing.

8 min read

8

Constitutional AI: Teaching Models to Self-Critique

Advanced

Constitutional AI trains models to follow principles, self-critique, and revise harmful outputs without human feedback on every example.

7 min read

9

Preference Optimization: DPO and Beyond

Advanced

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and variants train models on human preferences without separate reward models. Simpler, more stable than RLHF.

7 min read

10

Tool Use and Function Calling

Advanced

Enable AI to call APIs, query databases, and use external tools. Build agentic systems that take actions in the world.

8 min read

11

Advanced AI Evaluation Frameworks

Advanced

Build comprehensive evaluation systems: automated testing, human-in-the-loop, LLM-as-judge, and continuous monitoring.

8 min read

12

Synthetic Data Generation for AI Training

Advanced

Generate training data with AI: create examples, augment datasets, and bootstrap models when real data is scarce or sensitive.

7 min read

13

Active Learning: Smart Data Labeling

Advanced

Reduce labeling costs by intelligently selecting which examples to label. Active learning strategies for efficient model training.

6 min read

14

Continual Learning: Models That Keep Learning

Advanced

Train models on new data without forgetting old knowledge. Continual learning strategies for evolving AI systems.

6 min read

15

Efficient Inference Optimization

Advanced

Optimize AI inference for speed and cost: batching, caching, model serving, KV cache, speculative decoding, and more.

8 min read

16

Model Interpretability: Understanding AI Decisions

Advanced

Understand how AI makes decisions: attention visualization, feature importance, LIME, SHAP, and interpretability techniques.

7 min read

17

Adversarial Robustness: Defending AI from Attacks

Advanced

Harden AI against adversarial examples, data poisoning, and evasion attacks. Testing and defense strategies.

7 min read

18

AI Governance Frameworks for Organizations

Advanced

Establish AI governance: policies, approval processes, risk assessment, and compliance for responsible AI deployment at scale.

8 min read

19

Enterprise AI Architecture

Advanced

Design scalable, secure AI infrastructure for enterprises: hybrid deployment, data governance, model management, and integration.

8 min read

20

MLOps for LLMs

Advanced

Apply MLOps practices to LLMs: versioning, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and lifecycle management for production AI.

8 min read

21

Advanced Prompt Optimization

Advanced

Systematically optimize prompts: automated testing, genetic algorithms, prompt compression, and performance tuning.

7 min read

22

Training Custom Embedding Models

Advanced

Fine-tune or train embedding models for your domain. Improve retrieval quality with domain-specific embeddings.

7 min read

23

AI Policy and Regulation Landscape

Advanced

Navigate AI regulations: EU AI Act, US executive orders, sector-specific rules, and global frameworks. Compliance strategies for organizations.

8 min read

24

Training Multi-Modal Models

Advanced

Train models that understand images and text together. Contrastive learning, vision-language pre-training, and alignment techniques.

7 min read

25

Designing Custom AI Architectures

Advanced

Design specialized AI architectures for unique problems. When and how to go beyond pre-trained models and build custom solutions.

7 min read

26

Fine-Tuning vs RAG: Which Should You Use?

Intermediate

Compare fine-tuning and RAG to customize AI. Learn when each approach works best, how they differ, and how to combine them.

12 min read

27

Guardrails & Policy Design for AI

Intermediate

Design policies and guardrails to keep AI safe, compliant, and aligned with your values. Prevent harm, bias, and misuse.

14 min read

28

Cost & Latency: Making AI Fast and Affordable

Advanced

Optimize AI systems for speed and cost. Techniques for reducing latency, controlling API costs, and scaling efficiently.

13 min read

29

Evaluations 201: Golden Sets, Rubrics, and Automated Eval

Advanced

Build rigorous evaluation systems for AI. Create golden datasets, define rubrics, automate testing, and measure improvements.

14 min read

30

Privacy & PII Basics: Protecting Personal Data in AI

Advanced

How to handle personally identifiable information (PII) in AI systems. Privacy best practices, compliance, and risk mitigation.

13 min read

31

Deployment Patterns: Serverless, Edge, and Containers

Intermediate

How to deploy AI systems in production. Compare serverless, edge, container, and self-hosted options.

13 min read

32

Orchestration Options: LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Beyond

Intermediate

Frameworks for building AI workflows. Compare LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, and custom solutions.

12 min read

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