Unlock the essential skills needed to effectively design, implement, and scale robust evaluation pipelines for Large Language Models. In this comprehensive, hands-on course, you will learn how to seamlessly transition AI models from fragile prototypes into highly reliable, production-ready systems. You will begin by exploring the core fundamentals of LLM evaluation, identifying critical failure modes, and establishing a clear taxonomy for tracking model errors over time. From there, you will dive deeply into automated evaluations using advanced rule-based metrics and LLM-as-a-judge frameworks, build custom testing pipelines, and tackle complex architecture-specific challenges including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and multi-step agents. Finally, you will establish real-time tracing systems, continuous integration (CI/CD) evaluation gates, human-in-the-loop review processes, and intelligent cost-optimization routing strategies. This course is ideal for ambitious machine learning engineers, software developers, AI practitioners, and product managers who want to build high-performing, cost-efficient, and securely monitored LLM applications.

Mastering LLM Evaluation: Build Reliable Scalable AI Systems
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Mastering LLM Evaluation: Build Reliable Scalable AI Systems

Instructor: Vivian Aranha
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Build automated evaluation pipelines using code-based metrics and LLM-as-a-judge frameworks.
Evaluate architecture-specific AI systems like RAG, multi-turn agents, and multi-modal models.
Optimize model usage and reduce overall costs with intelligent routing and prompt caching.
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November 2026
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