Course info

This advanced LLM BootCamp is the eagerly awaited hackathon-style, coding-centered Boot-camp centered around real-world, exciting projects. The goal is to make you deeply confident and fluent in applying LLMs to solve a large range of real-world problems in vector embeddings, semantic AI search, advanced RAG (retrieval-augment generation) techniques, multi-modal learning, video comprehension, adversarial attacks, computer vision, audio-processing, natural language processing,  and clever techniques of prompt engineering.

Syllabus

1. PyTorch: Build models from scratch
2. Advanced Prompt Engineering Methods
3. Advanced RAG (Retrieval Augment Generation) Methods
4. In-depth Open-source tools: LLamaIndex, LangChain, HuggingFace, etc.
5. Natural Language to Code (SqL, etc.)
6. Adversarial Attacks and Defenses
7. Diffusion Models for images and videos
8. Advanced Methods in Document AI

Activities and components of the boot-camp

• Extensive compilation of guided exercises and labs with Jupyter-notebooks
• Lecture sessions with clear explanations of the topics involved
• Real-world group projects that aim to be starters for a potential startup, either outside or within your current company/place of work
• Quizzes and assessments for self-evaluation of progress
• “Cambrian Explosion” series — a collective approach to discuss the latest breakthroughs and happenings in LLM
• Project demonstrations and cohort feedback
• Research paper readings with lucid explanation bringing out the main ideas and relevance
• A friendly competition between the teams, and sharing of best practices
• A fairly extensive starter code-base to guide your progress and development
• A faculty of highly experienced and technical instructors, teaching assistants, and lab-assistants providing help around the clock as needed
• For those seeking jobs, mock-interviews practice, guidance with resume and job-placement help

You will work either alone or in teams of 4-6 engineers working in an environment that closely reproduces the innovation and development that is the quintessence of the Silicon Valley spirit. Each team will get for exclusive use during the Bootcamp a team-meeting room with a state-of-the-art multimedia setup, and a powerful AI server with banks of RTX4090. These will be accessible remotely too, so that the teams can continue to work on it during the workdays too.

You will also have unrestricted access to a 4-GPU massive AI server at the admin-privilege level for the three-month duration of this boot camp, on a time-shared basis. Besides this, you will also have the benefit of the 10-gigabit networking and the large server cluster to take your projects to actual production. SupportVectors will let you use the compute resources for an additional 4 weeks if you need to finish any remaining aspects of your projects.

A dedicated team of experienced teaching faculty, with deep industry and AI experience on large-scale projects, will guide you throughout the boot camp. The AI experts bring together deep academic backgrounds, educational excellence as well as years of technical leadership roles in the industry.

SupportVectors Creative Studio will help you create professional videos explaining your projects and will provide creative writing help in deriving detailed technical articles around your projects.

During the boot camp, breakfast and lunch are provided. The break-room is stocked with an endless supply of snacks, fruits, beverages, and gourmet coffee.