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New Short Course: Getting Structured LLM Output! Learn how to get structured outputs from your LLM applications in this course, built in partnership with .txt, and taught by Will Kurt, a Founding Engineer, and , Developer Relations Engineer. It's challenging for software to automatically parse through an LLM's freeform... text outputs. Structured outputs—like JSON—solve this by converting natural language into consistent, clear, data that a machine can read and process. This course teaches you how to generate structured outputs while building several use cases, including a social media analysis agent. You’ll learn about structured outputs and efficient ways to generate outputs in your defined schema or format. You’ll begin by using structured output APIs, then use re-prompting libraries like “instructor” to generate structured output. Finally, you’ll learn how constrained decoding works; this is a very clever technique in which constraints are applied on each subsequent token generated, blocking any tokens that don’t fit your defined schema. In detail, you’ll: - Learn why structured outputs are important, how they allow for scalable software development, and the different approaches to generate them, including vendor-provided APIs, re-prompting libraries, and structured generation. - Build a simple social media agent using OpenAI’s structured output API, learn how to define a model's desired structured output using Pydantic, and perform basic programming with your outputs, such as importing structured data into a data frame using pandas. - Learn how to use the open-source library "instructor," which checks the structured output of the model and re-prompts the model until it validates the desired output, and explore the limitations of this approach. - Understand how structured generation by the “outlines” library works by modifying LLM logits, on a per-generated-token basis based on the desired format, to give a particular output structure. - Learn how regular expressions, which outlines works with, are represented as finite-state machines, and how they can be used to develop a range of structured outputs beyond JSON. By the end of this course, you’ll have broadened your knowledge of the approaches you can use to get structured outputs from your LLM applications. Please sign up here:show more

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elvis1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Good stuff! Structured outputs is an important topic if you are building applications with LLMs. We also cover that topic in our own courses and how to leverage it for agents, reasoning, and more.

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@profitleap1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Exciting opportunity for anyone looking to enhance their LLM skills. 🌟

Ashish1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer This is simple and incredible!

jc_stack1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Structured outputs are game-changing for AI agent systems. Excited to try instructor/outlines libraries for better token control in DeFi integrations. Any performance tips for Web3?

Aloyinlapa Umar Ayinla1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Your commitment to ml/dl community is amazing

Boardy Boardman1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Structured outputs are becoming essential for production AI. Great to see a focused course on this - will definitely be sharing with my dev friends.

Glitch Elvis1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer Will this course also address the common challenges faced?

Emmanuel Moyrand1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer This sounds like an incredible opportunity for anyone looking to enhance their LLM skills. 🚀

Varnika Chabria1 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer @javishthchabria

Mac11811 year ago

@dottxtai @willkurt @cameron_pfiffer You don't give us enough time to finish the last one.😁 Thank you for sharing this wonderful course.

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252,403 views • 11 months ago

New short course with Mistral AI ! Mistral's open-source Mixtral 8x7B model uses a "mixture of experts" (MoE) architecture. Unlike a standard transformer, an MoE model has multiple expert feed-forward networks (8 in this case), with a gating network selecting two experts at inference time. This enables MoE to match the performance of a large model but faster inference. Mixtral 8x7B has 46.7B parameters but activates only 12.9B at inference to predict the next token. In Getting Started with Mistral, you’ll learn from Mistral’s Sophia Yang, Ph.D. to: - Explore Mistral's open-source models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B) and commercial models via API calls and Mistral AI's Le Chat website - Implement JSON mode to generate structured outputs to integrate directly into larger software systems. - Use function calling for Tool Use, such as calling custom Python code that queries tabular data - Ground your LLM's response with external knowledge sources using RAG - Build a Mistral-powered chat interface that can reference external documents This course will help deepen your prompt engineering skills. Please sign up here:

New short course with Mistral AI ! Mistral's open-source Mixtral 8x7B model uses a "mixture of experts" (MoE) architecture. Unlike a standard transformer, an MoE model has multiple expert feed-forward networks (8 in this case), with a gating network selecting two experts at inference time. This enables MoE to match the performance of a large model but faster inference. Mixtral 8x7B has 46.7B parameters but activates only 12.9B at inference to predict the next token. In Getting Started with Mistral, you’ll learn from Mistral’s Sophia Yang, Ph.D. to: - Explore Mistral's open-source models (Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B) and commercial models via API calls and Mistral AI's Le Chat website - Implement JSON mode to generate structured outputs to integrate directly into larger software systems. - Use function calling for Tool Use, such as calling custom Python code that queries tabular data - Ground your LLM's response with external knowledge sources using RAG - Build a Mistral-powered chat interface that can reference external documents This course will help deepen your prompt engineering skills. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

387,018 views • 2 years ago

New short course: DSPy: Build and Optimize Agentic Apps DSPy is a powerful open-source framework for automatically tuning prompts for GenAI applications. In this course, you'll learn to use DSPy, together with MLflow. This is built in partnership with Databricks and taught by Chen Qian, co-lead of the DSPy framework. Many AI builders spend hours hand-tuning prompts. When given a set of evals, DSPy automates this process. It’s especially useful for optimizing prompts, including few-shot prompts, in complex agentic AI workflows. Further, if you switch an application to a newer LLM, performance can degrade if your prompts were optimized to the previous model. DSPy automatically optimizes the entire system for the new LLM as well, using just a few evaluation examples. This course teaches DSPy works, and best practices for using it. You’ll write programs using DSPy’s signature-based programming model, debug them with MLflow tracing -- to gain visibility into how different parts of a pipeline, as well as how the overall system, are performing -- and automatically improve their accuracy with DSPy Optimizer. Please sign up here:

New short course: DSPy: Build and Optimize Agentic Apps DSPy is a powerful open-source framework for automatically tuning prompts for GenAI applications. In this course, you'll learn to use DSPy, together with MLflow. This is built in partnership with Databricks and taught by Chen Qian, co-lead of the DSPy framework. Many AI builders spend hours hand-tuning prompts. When given a set of evals, DSPy automates this process. It’s especially useful for optimizing prompts, including few-shot prompts, in complex agentic AI workflows. Further, if you switch an application to a newer LLM, performance can degrade if your prompts were optimized to the previous model. DSPy automatically optimizes the entire system for the new LLM as well, using just a few evaluation examples. This course teaches DSPy works, and best practices for using it. You’ll write programs using DSPy’s signature-based programming model, debug them with MLflow tracing -- to gain visibility into how different parts of a pipeline, as well as how the overall system, are performing -- and automatically improve their accuracy with DSPy Optimizer. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

181,457 views • 1 year ago

New Short Course: Building AI Browser Agents! Learn how to build AI agents that interact and take actions on websites in this course, created in partnership with and taught by and @namangarg0, Co-founders of AGI Inc. AI browser agents can log into websites, fill out forms, click through web pages, or even place orders online for you. They use both visual information, like screenshots, and structural data, like the HTML or Document Object Model (DOM) of a web page, to reason and take action. With the complexity of webpages and multiple possible actions at each step, it can be challenging for an AI browser agent to complete an assigned task. Because these agents run long action sequences, a single error—like clicking the wrong button or misreading a field—can lead to unexpected outcomes or errors that compound over time. In this course, you'll understand how autonomous web agents work, their current limitations, and how AgentQ enables them to improve through self-correction. In detail, you'll: - Learn what web agents are, how they automate tasks online, their architecture, key components, limitations, and an overview of their decision-making strategies. - Build a web agent that can scrape website and return course recommendations in a structured output format. - Build an autonomous web agent that can execute multiple tasks, such as finding and summarizing webpages, filling out a form, and signing up for a newsletter. - Explore AgentQ, a framework that enables agents to self-correct by combining Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a self-critique mechanism for continuous improvement, and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). - Deep dive into MCTS, learn how it finds an effective path, illustrated by an example of Gridworld animation, and use AgentQ to complete web tasks. - Understand AI agents' current state and future directions—including key factors shaping their evolution, such as hardware, algorithm innovation, and data availability. By the end of this course, you will have hands-on experience building browser agents and a deeper understanding of how to make them more robust and reliable. Please sign up here:

New Short Course: Building AI Browser Agents! Learn how to build AI agents that interact and take actions on websites in this course, created in partnership with and taught by and @namangarg0, Co-founders of AGI Inc. AI browser agents can log into websites, fill out forms, click through web pages, or even place orders online for you. They use both visual information, like screenshots, and structural data, like the HTML or Document Object Model (DOM) of a web page, to reason and take action. With the complexity of webpages and multiple possible actions at each step, it can be challenging for an AI browser agent to complete an assigned task. Because these agents run long action sequences, a single error—like clicking the wrong button or misreading a field—can lead to unexpected outcomes or errors that compound over time. In this course, you'll understand how autonomous web agents work, their current limitations, and how AgentQ enables them to improve through self-correction. In detail, you'll: - Learn what web agents are, how they automate tasks online, their architecture, key components, limitations, and an overview of their decision-making strategies. - Build a web agent that can scrape website and return course recommendations in a structured output format. - Build an autonomous web agent that can execute multiple tasks, such as finding and summarizing webpages, filling out a form, and signing up for a newsletter. - Explore AgentQ, a framework that enables agents to self-correct by combining Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a self-critique mechanism for continuous improvement, and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). - Deep dive into MCTS, learn how it finds an effective path, illustrated by an example of Gridworld animation, and use AgentQ to complete web tasks. - Understand AI agents' current state and future directions—including key factors shaping their evolution, such as hardware, algorithm innovation, and data availability. By the end of this course, you will have hands-on experience building browser agents and a deeper understanding of how to make them more robust and reliable. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

186,031 views • 1 year ago

New course: Build AI agents that generate images and videos -- an under-explored frontier. A key to performance is having the agent evaluate its own output, and iterate to improve quality. This short course is built together with Google Cloud Tech and taught by Katie Nguyen and Wafae Bakkali. You'll learn three evaluation techniques and combine them in an agent: image-text similarity scoring to check the output matches the prompt, an LLM judge that scores against custom criteria like brand consistency, and structured rubrics that break a prompt into verifiable yes/no questions like "is the subject in the frame?" and "does the camera motion match?" Skills you'll gain: - Learn image and video prompt engineering - Build an image agent that turns brand guidelines into UI mockups - Build a video agent that plans multi-scene explainers and animates reference frames with synchronized audio Join and build agents that create images and video!

Andrew Ng

134,278 views • 2 months ago

🔗 New LangChain Academy Course: Introduction to LangChain (Python) 🔗 Learn how to build with LangChain – our open source framework that makes it easy to start building agents with any model provider. In this course, you’ll create agents that can reason, use tools, and take action, and learn how to debug their behavior with LangSmith. Along the way, you’ll: - Build an agent with the `create_agent` abstraction - Use LangChain’s core building blocks: Models, Messages, Memory, and Tools - Customize your agent with middleware - Debug your agent with LangSmith Observability & Studio By the end of the course, you’ll have assembled a full team of personal assistants. Enroll for free ➡️

🔗 New LangChain Academy Course: Introduction to LangChain (Python) 🔗 Learn how to build with LangChain – our open source framework that makes it easy to start building agents with any model provider. In this course, you’ll create agents that can reason, use tools, and take action, and learn how to debug their behavior with LangSmith. Along the way, you’ll: - Build an agent with the `create_agent` abstraction - Use LangChain’s core building blocks: Models, Messages, Memory, and Tools - Customize your agent with middleware - Debug your agent with LangSmith Observability & Studio By the end of the course, you’ll have assembled a full team of personal assistants. Enroll for free ➡️

LangChain

41,016 views • 7 months ago