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IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate

Get job-ready as an AI engineer . Build the AI engineering skills and practical experience you need to catch the eye of an employer in less than 4 months. Power up your resume!

Sina Nazeri
Fateme Akbari
Wojciech 'Victor' Fulmyk

Instructors: Sina Nazeri

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.5

(7,284 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
4 months, 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Describe machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and ML algorithms like classification, regression, clustering, and dimensional reduction 

  • Implement supervised and unsupervised machine learning models using SciPy and ScikitLearn 

  • Deploy machine learning algorithms and pipelines on Apache Spark 

  • Build deep learning models and neural networks using Keras, PyTorch, and TensorFlow 

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October 2024

Professional Certificate - 13 course series

Machine Learning with Python

Machine Learning with Python

Course 120 hours

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready foundational machine learning skills in Python in just 6 weeks, including how to utilizeScikit-learn to build, test, and evaluate models.

  • How to apply data preparation techniques and manage bias-variance tradeoffs to optimize model performance.

  • How to implement core machine learning algorithms, including linear regression, decision trees, and SVM, for classification and regression tasks.

  • How to evaluate model performance using metrics, cross-validation, and hyperparameter tuning to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Transformers
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Generative AI
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Category: Keras (Neural Network Library)
Category: Convolutional Neural networks CNN
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Unsupervised Learning
Category: Reinforcement Learning
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Tensorflow
Category: Computer Vision
Category: TensorFlow Keras

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Databases
Category: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Category: Gradio
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Generative AI
Category: User Interface (UI)
Category: LangChain
Category: Document Management
Category: Generative AI applications
Category: Unstructured Data
Category: Vector database
Category: Artificial Intelligence

What you'll learn

  • Create custom layers and models in Keras and integrate Keras with TensorFlow 2.x

  • Develop advanced convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using Keras

  • Develop Transformer models for sequential data and time series prediction

  • Explain key concepts of Unsupervised learning in Keras, Deep Q-networks (DQNs), and reinforcement learning

Skills you'll gain

Category: Activation functions
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Softmax regression
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Computer Vision
Category: Neural Networks
Category: PyTorch
Category: Convolutional Neural Networks
Category: Machine Learning

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready PyTorch skills employers need in just 6 weeks

  • How to implement and train linear regression models from scratch using PyTorch’s functionalities

  • Key concepts of logistic regression and how to apply them to classification problems

  • How to handle data and train models using gradient descent for optimization 

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Artificial Neural Network
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Keras (Neural Network Library)
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Unsupervised Learning
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Tensorflow
Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Category: keras
Deep Learning with PyTorch

Deep Learning with PyTorch

Course 520 hours

What you'll learn

  • Key concepts on Softmax regression and understand its application in multi-class classification problems.

  • How to develop and train shallow neural networks with various architectures.

  • Key concepts of deep neural networks, including techniques like dropout, weight initialization, and batch normalization.

  • How to develop convolutional neural networks, apply layers and activation functions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
Category: In-context learning and prompt engineering
Category: Application Frameworks
Category: Generative AI
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: LangChain
Category: Open Source Technology
Category: Chatbots
Category: Vector databases
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Application Development

What you'll learn

  • Build a deep learning model to solve a real problem.

  • Execute the process of creating a deep learning pipeline.

  • Apply knowledge of deep learning to improve models using real data.

  • Demonstrate ability to present and communicate outcomes of deep learning projects.

Skills you'll gain

Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Generative AI
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Hugging Face
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Instruction-tuning
Category: Reinforcement learning
Category: OpenAI
Category: Tensorflow
Category: Proximal policy optimization (PPO)
Category: Direct preference optimization (DPO)
Category: ChatGPT

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate between generative AI architectures and models, such as RNNs, Transformers, VAEs, GANs, and Diffusion Models.

  • Describe how LLMs, such as GPT, BERT, BART, and T5, are used in language processing.

  • Implement tokenization to preprocess raw textual data using NLP libraries such as NLTK, spaCy, BertTokenizer, and XLNetTokenizer.

  • Create an NLP data loader using PyTorch to perform tokenization, numericalization, and padding of text data.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Classification And Regression Tree (CART)
Category: SciPy and scikit-learn
Category: classification
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Unsupervised Learning
Category: Dimensionality Reduction
Category: Jupyter
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: regression
Category: Matplotlib
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Statistical Modeling
Category: Random Forest Algorithm
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Statistical Machine Learning
Category: Clustering
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Python Programming

What you'll learn

  • Explain how to use one-hot encoding, bag-of-words, embedding, and embedding bags to convert words to features.

  • Build and use word2vec models for contextual embedding.

  • Build and train a simple language model with a neural network.

  • Utilize N-gram and sequence-to-sequence models for document classification, text analysis, and sequence transformation.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Deep Learning
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Application Frameworks
Category: Generative AI
Category: Pretraining transformers
Category: PyTorch
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: LoRA and QLoRA
Category: Hugging Face
Category: Fine-tuning LLMs

What you'll learn

  • Explain the concept of attention mechanisms in transformers, including their role in capturing contextual information.

  • Describe language modeling with the decoder-based GPT and encoder-based BERT.

  • Implement positional encoding, masking, attention mechanism, document classification, and create LLMs like GPT and BERT.

  • Use transformer-based models and PyTorch functions for text classification, language translation, and modeling.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Generative AI
Category: PyTorch functions
Category: Positional encoding and masking
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Text Mining
Category: Language transformation
Category: Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT)
Category: Bidirectional Representation for Transformers (BERT)

What you'll learn

  • Sought-after job-ready skills businesses need for working with transformer-based LLMs for generative AI engineering... in just 1 week.

  • How to perform parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) using LoRA and QLoRA

  • How to use pretrained transformers for language tasks and fine-tune them for specific tasks.

  • How to load models and their inferences and train models with Hugging Face.

Skills you'll gain

Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Generative AI
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Generative AI for NLP
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: N-Gram
Category: Text Mining
Category: PyTorch torchtext
Category: Word2Vec Model
Category: Sequence-to-Sequence Model

What you'll learn

  • In-demand gen AI engineering skills in fine-tuning LLMs employers are actively looking for in just 2 weeks

  • Instruction-tuning and reward modeling with the Hugging Face, plus LLMs as policies and RLHF

  • Direct preference optimization (DPO) with partition function and Hugging Face and how to create an optimal solution to a DPO problem

  • How to use proximal policy optimization (PPO) with Hugging Face to create a scoring function and perform dataset tokenization

Skills you'll gain

Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Data Processing
Category: Regression Analysis
Category: Linear Regression
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: TensorFlow
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Probability Distribution
Category: Logistic Regression
Category: Gradient Descent
Category: Statistical Methods

What you'll learn

  • In-demand job-ready skills businesses need for building AI agents using RAG and LangChain in just 8 hours.

  • How to apply the fundamentals of in-context learning and advanced methods of prompt engineering to enhance prompt design.

  • Key LangChain concepts, tools, components, chat models, chains, and agents.

  • How to apply RAG, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LLMs, and LangChain technologies to different applications.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Deep Learning
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: Data Manipulation
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Computer Vision
Category: Data Processing
Category: Keras (Neural Network Library)
Category: Scientific Visualization
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Data Import/Export

What you'll learn

  • Gain practical experience building your own real-world gen AI application that you can talk about in interviews.

  • Get hands-on using LangChain to load documents and apply text splitting techniques with RAG and LangChain to enhance model responsiveness.

  • Create and configure a vector database to store document embeddings and develop a retriever to fetch document segments based on queries.

  • Set up a simple Gradio interface for model interaction and construct a QA bot using LangChain and an LLM to answer questions from loaded documents.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
Category: NLP Data Loader
Category: Generative AI
Category: Natural Language Processing
Category: Data Processing
Category: Hugging Face Libraries
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Tokenization
Category: Deep Learning
Category: Artificial Neural Networks
Category: Jupyter
Category: PyTorch
Category: Large Language Models

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Instructors

Sina Nazeri
IBM
2 Courses24,865 learners
Fateme Akbari
IBM
4 Courses12,553 learners
Wojciech 'Victor' Fulmyk
IBM
4 Courses48,720 learners

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