# Language AI Engineering Lab

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Welcome to the **Language AI Engineering Lab** — a comprehensive, structured repository designed to guide you from **human language fundamentals and NLP** through **Transformers, Large Language Models**, and into **production-ready Language AI systems**.

Whether you are starting from the basics or aiming to build **scalable, real-world Ganerative AI applications**, this lab offers **hands-on learning paths**, **practical implementations**, and **end-to-end projects** that cover the **entire Language AI engineering lifecycle** — from text processing and model architectures to retrieval, agents, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment.

## <img src="https://gitlab.com/gil-son/useful-images-collection/-/raw/main/png/ai-ways.png?ref_type=heads" width="80"/> What is Generative AI?

Generative AI is a class of artificial intelligence systems designed to **create new content**—such as text, images, code, audio, or video—based on patterns learned from data.

It is **not the same as traditional Machine Learning**, which typically focuses on **prediction or classification** tasks (e.g., forecasting values or assigning labels).

Generative AI models learn the **underlying structure of data** and use it to generate **novel, coherent outputs**, often in a flexible and interactive way.
 
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In this repository, you will explore **in-depth concepts of Generative AI**, including **diagrams, illustrations, code and notebook examples, references, and curated videos** to support and accelerate your learning.

**Important:** This repository focuses on **Generative AI**. If you are looking to learn **Machine Learning**, you can find it in this [Machine Learning repository](https://github.com/gil-son/machine-learning).

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## <img src="https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/4681/4681450.png" width="80"/>  Repository Summary


It is important to understand the meaning and purpose of each section:

### 01-Human-Language-and-NLP
Foundations of NLP, NLU, and NLG: tokenization, embeddings, intent extraction, entity recognition, and text generation.

### 02-Transformer-Architecture
Deep dive into transformers: attention, embeddings, positional encoding, feedforward layers, and why transformers work.

### 03-LLM-Fundamentals
Core LLM concepts, architectures, training strategies (fine-tuning, RLHF), and evaluation foundations.

### 04-Prompt-Engineering
Zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot prompting, reasoning patterns, prompt templates, and optimization techniques.

### 05-Context-Management
Managing LLM context windows, conversation state, memory, truncation strategies, and structured outputs.

### 06-RAG-Pipeline
End-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines: indexing, chunking, embedding, retrieval, reranking, grounding, and response synthesis.

### 07-Context-Engineering
Designing context as a system: instruction hierarchies, memory fusion, grounding strategies, safety constraints, and cost-aware assembly.

### 08-Evaluation-and-Benchmarks
Metrics, prompt testing, regression testing, hallucination measurement, latency, cost tracking, and tracing.

### 09-Hallucinations-and-Factuality
Failure modes, hallucination taxonomy, detection strategies, grounding techniques, and mitigation patterns.

### 10-Model-Context-Protocol
Standardized tool and data access via MCP, custom servers, and secure integrations.

### 11-LLM-Orchestration
Workflow orchestration with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, LangFlow, LangSmith, and LangFuse.

### 12-Agentic-AI-Systems
Autonomous agents, planning, reasoning loops, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration.

### 13-Multimodal-Models
Vision-language models, audio-text models, multimodal fusion, and cross-modal reasoning.

### 14-MLOps-and-Production
CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, observability, scaling, and cost optimization.

### 15-LLM-Data-Engineering
Dataset lifecycle, cleaning, versioning, labeling, and synthetic data generation.

### 16-AI-IVR-Specifics
Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, dialogue management, and real-time IVR orchestration.

### **Projects**
Practical and applied hands-on projects.

### **Notebooks**
Jupyter notebooks for experiments and demonstrations.

### **Scripts**
Utility scripts and helper functions.

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## <img src="https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/6062/6062161.png" width="80"/> Learning Objectives

By the End of This Lab, You Will Be Able To:


### Natural Language Processing (NLP / NLU / NLG)
- **Apply** foundational NLP techniques to process, understand, and generate human language
- **Implement** tokenization, normalization, embeddings, intent classification, and entity recognition pipelines
- **Differentiate** between NLP, NLU, and NLG tasks and understand where each fits in modern LLM systems

### Transformer & LLM Foundations
- **Understand** transformer internals including self-attention, multi-head attention, and feed-forward layers
- **Explain** positional encoding, embeddings, and context length constraints
- **Build** a mini GPT-style language model from scratch to solidify architectural understanding
- **Master** essential LLM terminology and architectural trade-offs

### LLM Training & Adaptation
- **Understand** pretraining objectives such as causal language modeling and masked language modeling
- **Apply** fine-tuning strategies including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and RLHF
- **Evaluate** how training choices affect model behavior, bias, and generalization

### Prompt Engineering
- **Design** effective zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot prompts
- **Apply** reasoning-oriented prompting techniques such as chain-of-thought and decomposition
- **Iterate and optimize** prompts using templates, constraints, and systematic testing

### Context Management
- **Optimize** context windows to maximize information density within token limits
- **Track** conversation state and history for coherent multi-turn interactions
- **Implement** short-term and long-term memory patterns
- **Structure** model outputs using schemas such as JSON, XML, and function-call formats

### Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- **Understand** the full RAG pipeline from ingestion to retrieval and generation
- **Design** chunking, embedding, indexing, and retrieval strategies
- **Ground** model responses in external knowledge to improve factuality and reliability
- **Evaluate** retrieval quality and generation faithfulness

### Context Engineering
- **Design** context as a system rather than a single prompt
- **Compose** system prompts, developer instructions, retrieved documents, memory, and user input coherently
- **Apply** hierarchical instruction models (system > developer > user)
- **Rank, filter, and constrain** context to reduce noise and hallucinations
- **Optimize** token usage for cost, latency, and relevance
- **Build** robust, production-ready context assembly pipelines

### Evaluation, Factuality & Hallucinations
- **Measure** model quality using metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, and perplexity
- **Detect and categorize** hallucinations (factual, contextual, structural)
- **Implement** grounding, verification, and evidence-first strategies
- **Track** latency, cost, and quality regressions over time

### Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- **Understand** MCP as a standard interface between LLMs, tools, and data sources
- **Build** custom MCP servers for controlled tool and data access
- **Secure and validate** model-tool interactions
- **Integrate** MCP into orchestration and agent systems

### LLM Orchestration
- **Orchestrate** complex LLM workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, and Semantic Kernel
- **Design** stateful, multi-step pipelines with branching and retries
- **Debug, trace, and observe** systems using LangSmith, LangFlow, and LangFuse

### Agentic AI Systems
- **Build** autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool usage
- **Integrate** APIs, databases, search engines, and custom tools
- **Design** single-agent and multi-agent collaboration patterns
- **Manage** agent memory, goals, and execution loops

### Multimodal Models
- **Understand** how transformers extend beyond text to vision, audio, and video
- **Work with** multimodal inputs such as text+image or speech+text
- **Design** cross-modal reasoning and generation workflows

### Production, MLOps & Monitoring
- **Deploy** LLM systems using CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- **Track** experiments, prompts, and evaluations using MLflow
- **Monitor** production systems for latency, cost, drift, and failures
- **Optimize** performance and reliability at scale

### LLM Data Engineering
- **Collect** and curate high-quality datasets for training and fine-tuning
- **Clean, filter, and deduplicate** data to maintain quality standards
- **Format and version** datasets for reproducible training
- **Generate** synthetic data to address data scarcity or privacy constraints

### Domain Applications (IVR & Voice Systems)
- **Apply** LLM techniques to Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems
- **Integrate** speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) components
- **Manage** real-time dialogue state and orchestration for voice-based applications

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## <img src="https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/18310/18310876.png" width="80"/>  Learning Path

This is a recommended progressive learning path:

```
START
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01-Human-Language-and-NLP
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02-Transformer-Architecture
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03-LLM-Fundamentals
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04-Prompt-Engineering
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05-Context-Management
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06-RAG-Pipeline
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07-Context-Engineering
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08-Evaluation-and-Benchmarks
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09-Hallucinations-and-Factuality
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10-Model-Context-Protocol
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11-LLM-Orchestration
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12-Agentic-AI-Systems
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13-Multimodal-Models
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14-MLOps-and-Production
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15-LLM-Data-Engineering
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16-AI-IVR-Specifics
```

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## <img src="https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/1797/1797536.png" width="80"/>  Repository Structure


The repository is organized into numbered folders to reflect a progressive learning path:

```
language-ai-engineering-lab/
├── 01-Human-Language-and-NLP/
├── 02-Transformer-Architecture/
├── 03-LLM-Fundamentals/
├── 04-Prompt-Engineering/
├── 05-Context-Management/
├── 06-RAG-Pipeline/
├── 07-Context-Engineering/
├── 08-Evaluation-and-Benchmarks/
├── 09-Hallucinations-and-Factuality/
├── 10-Model-Context-Protocol/
├── 11-LLM-Orchestration/
├── 12-Agentic-AI-Systems/
├── 13-Multimodal-Models/
├── 14-MLOps-and-Production/
├── 15-LLM-Data-Engineering/
├── 16-AI-IVR-Specifics/
├── projects/
├── notebooks/
└── scripts/
```

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