RAG-Driven Generative AI - AI Book Club | February 2025

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February's read for AI book club is "RAG-Driven Generative AI" by Denis Rothman!

This is a casual-style event. Not a structured presentation on topics. Sometimes, the discussion even drifts away from the chapters, but feel free to grab the mic to help steer it back.

Feel free to join the discussion even if you have not read the book chapters! :)

Want to discuss the contents during the reading month? Join the Flyte MLOps Slack group and search for the "ai-book-club" channel. https://slack.flyte.org/

Chapters:
Why Retrieval Augmented Generation?
RAG Embedding Vector Stores with Deep Lake and OpenAI
Building Index-Based RAG with LlamaIndex, Deep Lake, and OpenAI
Multimodal Modular RAG for Drone Technology
Boosting RAG Performance with Expert Human Feedback
Scaling RAG Bank Customer Data with Pinecone
Building Scalable Knowledge-Graph-Based RAG with Wikipedia API and LlamaIndex
Dynamic RAG with Chroma and Hugging Face Llama
-Empowering AI Models: Fine-Tuning RAG Data and Human Feedback
RAG for Video Stock Production with Pinecone and OpenAI

Book Description:
Minimize AI hallucinations and build accurate, custom generative AI pipelines with RAG using embedded vector databases and integrated human feedback Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format

Key Features
Implement RAG’s traceable outputs, linking each response to its source document to build reliable multimodal conversational agents
Deliver accurate generative AI models in pipelines integrating RAG, real-time human feedback improvements, and knowledge graphs
Balance cost and performance between dynamic retrieval datasets and fine-tuning static data

Book Description
RAG-Driven Generative AI provides a roadmap for building effective LLM, computer vision, and generative AI systems that balance performance and costs.

This book offers a detailed exploration of RAG and how to design, manage, and control multimodal AI pipelines. By connecting outputs to traceable source documents, RAG improves output accuracy and contextual relevance, offering a dynamic approach to managing large volumes of information. This AI book shows you how to build a RAG framework, providing practical knowledge on vector stores, chunking, indexing, and ranking. You’ll discover techniques to optimize your project’s performance and better understand your data, including using adaptive RAG and human feedback to refine retrieval accuracy, balancing RAG with fine-tuning, implementing dynamic RAG to enhance real-time decision-making, and visualizing complex data with knowledge graphs.

You’ll be exposed to a hands-on blend of frameworks like LlamaIndex and Deep Lake, vector databases such as Pinecone and Chroma, and models from Hugging Face and OpenAI.

By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills to implement intelligent solutions, keeping you competitive in fields from production to customer service across any project.

What you will learn
Scale RAG pipelines to handle large datasets efficiently
Employ techniques that minimize hallucinations and ensure accurate responses
Implement indexing techniques to improve AI accuracy with traceable and transparent outputs

Customize and scale RAG-driven generative AI systems across domains
Find out how to use Deep Lake and Pinecone for efficient and fast data retrieval
Control and build robust generative AI systems grounded in real-world data
Combine text and image data for richer, more informative AI responses

Who this book is for
This book is ideal for data scientists, AI engineers, machine learning engineers, and MLOps engineers. If you are a solutions architect, software developer, product manager, or project manager looking to enhance the decision-making process of building RAG applications, then you’ll find this book useful.

You can find the book in most places:
Packt: https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/produc...
O'reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/...