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Neural N-Gram ModelsAI BootcampOne-hot encode inputs, build PyTorch bigram/trigram neural networks, train with cross-entropy loss, and monitor training dynamics.
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Evaluating N-Gram ModelsAI BootcampEvaluate model quality using entropy, character diversity, and negative log likelihood (NLL).
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Building and Sampling N-Gram ModelsAI BootcampConstruct frequency dictionaries, normalize into probability matrices, and sample random text using bigram/trigram models.
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Introduction to N-Gram ModelsAI BootcampUnderstand n-grams and their use in modeling language with simple probabilities, implement bigram/trigram extraction with sliding windows.
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RAG Evaluation & ImplementationAI BootcampEvaluate RAG with `recall@k`, `precision@k`, `MRR`, generate synthetic data with LLMs, and implement baseline vector search with LanceDB and OpenAI embeddings.
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Vector Databases and Query OptimizationAI BootcampExplore vector databases, chunking, and query optimization (HyDE, reranking, filtering) using contrastive learning and cosine similarity.
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RAG Pipeline OverviewAI BootcampUnderstand the RAG pipeline (pre-retrieval, retrieval, post-retrieval) and compare term-based vs embedding-based retrieval (TF-IDF, BM25 vs vector search).
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Advanced Multimodal TasksAI BootcampExperiment with visual question answering (VQA), image captioning, and compare multimodal architectures (CLIP, ViLT, ViT-GPT2).
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Prompt Engineering with ImagesAI BootcampPractice prompt engineering with images, explore wording’s impact on retrieval, and build text-to-image/image-to-image retrieval systems using cosine similarity.
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Introduction to CLIP and Multimodal EmbeddingsAI BootcampUnderstand CLIP’s joint image-text representations via contrastive learning and run similarity queries in shared embedding space.
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Multimodal Embeddings for RetrievalAI BootcampConduct retrieval and classification tasks with image/audio embeddings (CLIP, Wav2Vec2) and explore emerging architectures like Byte Latent Transformers.