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- Price: FREE
- Enrolled: 630 students
- Language: English
- Certificate: Yes
- Difficulty: Beginner
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What You'll Learn
- Explain what retrieval-augmented generation is and why it is important for building reliable generative AI applications.,Understand the difference between information retrieval and AI-generated responses.,Describe the core components and data flow of a complete RAG architecture.,Prepare documents for retrieval through ingestion
- cleaning
- parsing
- and preprocessing.,Apply effective chunking strategies based on document structure
- content type
- and retrieval needs.,Use metadata and indexing to improve document organization
- filtering
- and search accuracy.,Understand how embeddings represent text and support semantic similarity search.,Design vector-search workflows using queries
- embeddings
- vector databases
- and retrieval results.,Apply ranking
- reranking
- filtering
- and relevance techniques to improve retrieved context.,Create prompts that combine user questions with retrieved information.,Generate answers that remain grounded in trusted source content.,Add citations and source references to improve transparency and verification.,Reduce hallucinations through retrieval controls
- prompt constraints
- validation
- and fallback strategies.,Evaluate RAG systems using retrieval quality
- answer relevance
- faithfulness
- latency
- and user feedback.,Improve production performance through caching
- indexing
- monitoring
- and retrieval optimization.,Identify security
- privacy
- access-control
- and governance requirements for enterprise RAG applications.
Requirements
- Basic familiarity with generative AI
- ChatGPT
- or large language models is helpful.,No previous experience building retrieval-augmented generation systems is required.,Basic programming knowledge
- especially Python
- is recommended for hands-on implementation.,Familiarity with APIs
- JSON
- and simple data-processing concepts can be helpful but is not mandatory.,A computer with an internet connection and permission to install development tools is recommended.,Access to a code editor or notebook environment will support practical exercises.,No advanced mathematics
- data science
- or machine learning expertise is required.,Previous knowledge of databases or search systems is useful but not necessary.,Learners should be comfortable experimenting
- testing retrieval results
- and reviewing AI-generated answers.,Curiosity about building accurate
- source-grounded generative AI applications is the most important prerequisite.
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
RAG for GenAI Applications is a practical course designed to help you understand, design, and evaluate retrieval-augmented generation systems. RAG combines information retrieval with large language models so that generative AI applications can answer questions using relevant documents, organizational knowledge, and trusted data sources.
You will begin with the foundations of retrieval-augmented generation, including why RAG matters, how retrieval differs from generation, and how information moves through a complete RAG architecture. You will examine the relationship between a user query, retrieved context, prompt construction, and the final generated response.
The course then focuses on data preparation for RAG. You will learn how documents are collected, parsed, cleaned, and prepared for indexing. You will compare different chunking strategies and understand how chunk size, overlap, document structure, and semantic boundaries can influence retrieval quality. You will also learn how metadata supports filtering, organization, access control, and source tracking.
In the retrieval-design section, you will explore text embeddings, vector search, and semantic similarity. You will understand how text is converted into vector representations and how vector databases identify relevant content. The course also covers ranking, reranking, metadata filtering, and retrieval strategies that help deliver better context to a language model.
Next, you will learn how to generate answers using retrieved information. You will design prompts that clearly separate user instructions from source context and encourage the model to produce grounded AI responses. You will explore citation handling, source attribution, answer validation, and techniques for reducing hallucinations. You will also learn how a system should respond when the available documents do not contain enough information.
The final section addresses production RAG systems. You will explore evaluation methods for retrieval relevance, answer quality, faithfulness, latency, and user satisfaction. You will learn how indexing, caching, batching, monitoring, and retrieval optimization can improve system performance.
The course also examines essential AI security and governance considerations. Topics include protecting sensitive documents, enforcing permissions, preventing unauthorized retrieval, monitoring data usage, and maintaining traceability.
By the end of the course, you will understand how to build and improve generative AI applications that use enterprise knowledge, private documents, and domain-specific content. You will be prepared to design solutions such as internal knowledge assistants, customer-support agents, research tools, document-question-answering applications, and AI-powered search systems.
Whether you are a developer, AI engineer, architect, data professional, product manager, or technical learner, RAG for GenAI Applications will give you a strong foundation in embeddings, vector databases, retrieval design, grounded generation, citations, evaluation, security, and production readiness.
Who this course is for:
- Developers who want to build generative AI applications using private
- enterprise
- or domain-specific data.,AI engineers and machine learning professionals interested in improving LLM accuracy and reliability.,Software architects designing production-ready generative AI solutions.,Data engineers responsible for ingestion
- document processing
- indexing
- and retrieval pipelines.,Technical product managers working on AI-powered search
- assistants
- and knowledge-management tools.,Business analysts and consultants who want to understand how RAG systems deliver grounded answers.,Enterprise teams building internal copilots
- support assistants
- research tools
- or document-question-answering systems.,Students and career changers seeking practical skills in modern generative AI application development.,Professionals who understand basic LLM concepts and want to move into applied AI engineering.,Anyone interested in embeddings
- vector databases
- semantic search
- citations
- and responsible AI deployment.
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