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A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation - Softcover

Kimothi, Abhinav

 
9781633435858: A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation

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Everything you need to know about Retrieval Augmented Generation in one human-friendly guide.

Augmented Generation—or RAG—enhances an LLM’s available data by adding context from an external knowledge base, so it can answer accurately about proprietary content, recent information, and even live conversations. RAG is powerful, and with A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation, it’s also easy to understand and implement!

In A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation you’ll learn:

  • The components of a RAG system
  • How to create a RAG knowledge base
  • The indexing and generation pipeline
  • Evaluating a RAG system
  • Advanced RAG strategies
  • RAG tools, technologies, and frameworks
A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation gives an easy, yet comprehensive, introduction to RAG for AI beginners. You’ll go from basic RAG that uses indexing and generation pipelines, to modular RAG and multimodal data from images, spreadsheets, and more.

About the Technology

If you want to use a large language model to answer questions about your specific business, you’re out of luck. The LLM probably knows nothing about it and may even make up a response. Retrieval Augmented Generation is an approach that solves this class of problems. The model first retrieves the most relevant pieces of information from your knowledge stores (search index, vector database, or a set of documents) and then generates its answer using the user’s prompt and the retrieved material as context. This avoids hallucination and lets you decide what it says.

About the Book

A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation is a plain-English guide to RAG. The book is easy to follow and packed with realistic Python code examples. It takes you concept-by-concept from your first steps with RAG to advanced approaches, exploring how tools like LangChain and Python libraries make RAG easy. And to make sure you really understand how RAG works, you’ll build a complete system yourself—even if you’re new to AI!

What’s Inside
  • RAG components and applications
  • Evaluating RAG systems
  • Tools and frameworks for implementing RAG
About the Readers

For data scientists, engineers, and technology managers—no prior LLM experience required. Examples use simple, well-annotated Python code.

About the Author

Abhinav Kimothi is a seasoned data and AI professional. He has spent over 15 years in consulting and leadership roles in data science, machine learning and AI, and currently works as a Director of Data Science at Sigmoid.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1 LLMs and the need for RAG
2 RAG systems and their design
Part 2
3 Indexing pipeline: Creating a knowledge base for RAG
4 Generation pipeline: Generating contextual LLM responses
5 RAG evaluation: Accuracy, relevance, and faithfulness
Part 3
6 Progression of RAG systems: Naïve, advanced, and modular RAG
7 Evolving RAGOps stack
Part 4
8 Graph, multimodal, agentic, and other RAG variants
9 RAG development framework and further exploration

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Abhinav Kimothi is an entrepreneur and Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Yarnit. He has spent over 15 years consulting and leadership roles in data science, machine learning and AI.

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A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation makes RAG simple and easy, even if you've never worked with LLMs before. This book goes deeper than any blog or YouTube tutorial, covering fundamental RAG concepts that are essential for building LLM-based applications. You'll be introduced to the idea of RAG and be guided from the basics on to advanced and modularized RAG approaches―plus hands-on code snippets leveraging LangChain, OpenAI, Transformers, and other Python libraries.

Chapter-by-chapter, you'll build a complete RAG enabled system and evaluate its effectiveness. You'll compare and combine accuracy-improving approaches for different components of RAG, and see what the future holds for RAG. You'll also get a sense of the different tools and technologies available to implement RAG. By the time you're done reading, you'll be ready to start building RAG enabled systems.

 

About the reader:

For data scientists, machine learning and software engineers, and technology managers who wish to build LLM-based applications. Examples in Python―no experience with LLMs necessary.

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