Systematically Improving RAG Applications: Bonus Content - Enrich your learning experience with access to exceptional materials from prior cohorts, including workshops, guest lectures, and Q&A sessions. Dive into a wealth of practical cases, best practices, and in-depth technical analyses.
Cohort 1
Workshops
Engage in six practical workshops from the first cohort that complement the main program:
- Workshop 1
- Workshop 2
- Workshop 3
- Workshop 4
- Workshop 5
- Workshop 6
Guest Lectures
Listen to insightful lectures from experts at leading AI companies:
- Building Dynamic AI Memory Systems - Personalization by Sam Whitmore
- Text Chunking in RAG - Insights by Anton from ChromaDB
- Custom RAG Evaluations - With Vespa.ai
- Multimodal RAG, Hybrid Search & Re-ranking Tips - With LanceDB and Unstructured
- Leveraging User Feedback - Experiences from Zapier Central
- Guide to RAG Complexity - Featured by Cohere and Modal Labs
- Boosting BM25 with Generative AI - Doug Turnbull
Office Hours
Engage with experts through a series of Q&A sessions addressing practical challenges such as:
- Building scalable RAG systems
- Query optimization and routing
- Fine-tuning re-rankers
- Exploring alternative search methods: ColBERT, SPLADE
- Implementing DAGs and serverless architecture
- Specialized sessions for the APAC region
Cohort 2
Guest Lectures
New insights from the second cohort's guest expert sessions:
- Evolving workflows for RAG optimization
- Lexical Love - Shared by John Berriman
- Common Mistakes with Evals - Clarified by Hamel Husain
- Workflow Agents - A deep dive by Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex)
- Query Routing - Perspective by Anton Troynikov (ChromaDB)
- Fine-Tuning for Enterprise Search - Insights from the Glean team