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Advance RAG Patterns is an intermediate course designed for AI developers and ML engineers who have built a basic RAG pipeline but find it still fails on complex or nuanced queries. While foundational RAG reduces hallucinations, production-grade AI demands greater reliability, accuracy, and reasoning. This 2-hour course moves beyond the basics to teach you how to engineer robust, intelligent, and self-correcting systems.
Focused on practical, job-ready skills, this course dives deep into cutting-edge architecture. You will learn to implement and evaluate a suite of advanced patterns, including Corrective RAG for query rewriting, Self-RAG for source validation, and Agentic RAG for multi-hop problem-solving. Through hands-on, in-browser projects, you will A/B test these different architectures, analyze their performance against key metrics, analyze different embedding services, and make data-driven decisions on improving accuracy. By the end, you'll be able to not just build, but architect and defend production-ready RAG systems that are both powerful and trustworthy.
In this module, you will learn how to build pipelines that self-correct. You will implement patterns like Corrective RAG and Self-RAG to improve retrieval relevance and validate information before it ever reaches the user, leading to more accurate and trustworthy answers.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
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1 video•Total 9 minutes
How to Implement a Self-RAG and a Corrective RAG Loop•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
The Theory of Self-Correction: Corrective vs. Self-RAG•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 25 minutes
Hands-On Learning: Add a Validation Step to a RAG Pipeline•15 minutes
Knowledge Check: Matching Patterns to Problems•10 minutes
Agentic RAG and Performance Evaluation
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
In this module, you will learn to build truly intelligent systems by converting your RAG pipeline into a tool for a smart agent. You will construct an Agentic RAG system that can break down complex problems and use your retriever to find answers. Finally, you will learn to A/B test your different patterns and produce a data-driven report to prove their value.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
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2 videos•Total 13 minutes
Why Your RAG Bot Needs to Think, Not Just Retrieve•6 minutes
How-To: Build an Agent and Its Evaluation Harness•8 minutes
1 reading•Total 5 minutes
The Cost of Intelligence: Choosing an Embedding Service•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 45 minutes
Hands-On Learning: Build and Test a Basic RAG Agent•15 minutes
Final Project: A/B Test RAG Patterns for Production•30 minutes
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