As AI models like Google's Gemini have shown, even the most advanced systems can have spectacular safety failures, leading to brand damage and a loss of user trust. "Safeguard LLM Outputs: Test and Evaluate" is an intermediate course for developers and ML engineers who need to move beyond functional testing and build truly trustworthy AI. This course teaches you the rigorous, adversarial testing methodologies that professional AI Red Teams use to secure high-stakes applications.

Safeguard LLM Outputs: Test and Evaluate

Safeguard LLM Outputs: Test and Evaluate
This course is part of LLM Optimization & Evaluation Specialization

Instructor: LearningMate
Access provided by ExxonMobil
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What you'll learn
Build and validate a robust safety testing framework for LLMs. Create behavioral test suites and use mutation testing to ensure their effectiveness.
Skills you'll gain
- API Testing
- Model Evaluation
- Test Tools
- Threat Modeling
- Code Coverage
- Software Technical Review
- Maintainability
- Penetration Testing
- Test Script Development
- Responsible AI
- Quality Assessment
- Test Case
- Security Testing
- Prompt Engineering
- Large Language Modeling
- Software Testing
- AI Security
- LLM Application
- Verification And Validation
- Unit Testing
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This comprehensive module takes learners through the end-to-end process of creating and validating a safety testing framework for LLM applications. You will first build a behavioral test suite to enforce safety policies and then "test their tests" using mutation testing to find and fix hidden weaknesses, ensuring the safety net is truly robust.
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