@suraj_sharma14: If you want to become an AI/ML Engineer, here's what you actually need to learn: - Math & theory foundations : Linear a…
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A detailed roadmap of topics to learn for becoming an AI/ML engineer, covering math fundamentals, deep learning architectures, training techniques, data pipelines, evaluation, inference, MLOps, and responsible AI.
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If you want to become an AI/ML Engineer, here’s what you actually need to learn:
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Math & theory foundations : Linear algebra, probability & statistics, optimization, information theory
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Deep learning architectures : Transformers, diffusion models, CNNs/ViTs, RNNs/LSTMs/GRUs, mixture-of-experts
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Training & scaling : Pre-training, fine-tuning, PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA), RLHF/DPO/PPO, distributed training (DDP, FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron)
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Data at scale : Data pipelines, cleaning & deduplication, tokenization strategies, synthetic data, multimodal datasets
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Evaluation & benchmarking : Automatic metrics (BLEU/ROUGE/BERTScore/MMLU), human eval, adversarial testing, bias & fairness checks, LLM-as-a-judge
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Inference & serving : vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, quantization (AWQ/GPTQ/bitsandbytes), speculative decoding, continuous batching, model sharding
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MLOps : Experiment tracking (MLflow, W&B), model registry, CI/CD for models, drift monitoring, feature stores
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Responsible AI & safety : Alignment techniques, red-teaming, jailbreak defenses, constitutional AI, interpretability basics (attention viz, SAEs)
This isn’t a weekend list. It’s a multi-year stack. Pick one section and go deep before moving to the next.
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