Generative AI/Large Language Model Focus Areas Part 1

List of interested topics with Learning Resources

Xin Cheng
19 min readJan 8, 2024

Part 2 is here.

Application building

Prompt engineering techniques

General

In-context learning

reasoning

chain of thought

graph of thought

tree of thought

self consistency

step back

ReAct

MetaPrompting

Misc

Prompting framework

Integration with Knowledge graph

Integration with Recommender System

Retrieval

Embedding

Vector database

unstructured and unstructured entity extraction

Orchestration framework

langchain

llamaindex

prompt flow

semantic kernel

LLM agents

function calling

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling

tools

autogen, autogpt

Conversational AI chatbot (conversational memory)

Task
LLM for software development

Microsoft Copilot app/plugins

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/12/AI-and-Productivity-Report-First-Edition.pdf

https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/uploads/prod/2024/04/Ch-2-story-1-Deploying-Copilot-for-Microsoft-365-internally-at-Microsoft.pdf

Large Language Models/LLMs

LLMOps

LLM model evaluation

RAG evaluation

LLM logging/monitoring

Open-source LLM

Integration with various cloud provider

Azure ml

AWS bedrock

GCP vertex ai

Integration with container environment

docker

k8s

openshift

Appendix

Generative AI intro

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-prompt-engineering-full-course/
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/536

Large language model

Appendix

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Xin Cheng
Xin Cheng

Written by Xin Cheng

Multi/Hybrid-cloud, Kubernetes, cloud-native, big data, machine learning, IoT developer/architect, 3x Azure-certified, 3x AWS-certified, 2x GCP-certified

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