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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Agent Builder and RAG

  • Overview of Agent Builder’s capabilities.
  • Core concepts of RAG and scenarios for its application.
  • Real-world use cases and success stories.

Setting Up the Environment

  • Configuring the Vertex AI workspace.
  • Connecting to search and vector stores.
  • Hands-on lab: Preparing the environment.

Designing Grounded Agent Workflows

  • Defining agent objectives and conversation flows.
  • Mapping data sources to retrieval strategies.
  • Hands-on lab: Constructing a conversation flow.

Implementing RAG Pipelines

  • Indexing documents and managing embeddings.
  • Understanding retriever and re-ranker patterns.
  • Hands-on lab: Creating a RAG pipeline.

Integrations and Enterprise Data

  • Establishing secure connectors to internal systems.
  • Data governance and access control mechanisms.
  • Hands-on lab: Linking enterprise data sources.

Testing, Evaluation, and Iteration

  • Conducting prompt tests and defining evaluation metrics.
  • User simulation and validation methodologies.
  • Hands-on lab: Evaluating and tuning the agent.

Deployment, Monitoring, and Maintenance

  • Exploring deployment options and scaling considerations.
  • Monitoring performance, relevance, and model drift.
  • Operational playbooks for updates and rollback procedures.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of natural language processing.
  • Practical experience with cloud services and APIs.
  • Familiarity with search engines and vector databases.

Target Audience

  • Developers.
  • Solution architects.
  • Product managers.

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