In recent years, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI applications, providing new opportunities for solving complex problems with natural language understanding and generation. This map of content explores the foundational aspects of building robust LLM-based systems, ranging from model selection and context enhancement to safeguarding mechanisms and performance evaluation.
Overview
The rise of AI applications, especially LLMs, has unlocked diverse use cases across industries like customer support, content generation, and programming assistance. Building a scalable LLM system requires not only choosing the right model but also following architecture best practices and integrating a robust tech stack.
- The rise of AI applications with LLM
- Use cases
- Architecture and stack
Model select and customization
Selecting and customizing the right LLM is critical for addressing specific business needs, balancing between performance and cost.
- Choose the right model
- Fine-tuning
- Prompt engineering
Context enhancement
Methods for augmenting query context to improve model performance and accuracy.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- RAG for multimodal data
- Agentic RAG
- Query rewriting
Management output structure
Standardizing and managing the output of an LLM system ensures that responses are structured and actionable.
- Output formatting
- Schema enforcement
- Chaining model outputs
Safeguarding
Systems to prevent model misuse, sensitive data leaks, and bad outputs.
Model routing and gateway
Managing multiple models and securing access to them through a unified system.
- Intent classifiers
- Model gateways
- Next-action prediction
Caching for latency optimization
Using caching techniques to reduce latency and costs in generative AI applications.
- Prompt cache
- Exact cache
- Semantic cache
Complex logic and write actions
LLM systems need to handle complex reasoning, task delegation, and actions based on AI output.
- Conditional logic and task iteration
- Write actions
- Prevent prompt injection
- Supervior-worker architecture (divide and conquer)
- ReAct
- ReWOO (reasoning without observations)
Evaluating performance
Using right metrics and method for specific use case in LLM.
Observability and orchestration
Monitoring the system's performance and orchestrating the complex AI workflows that tie the components together.
- Observability in AI platforms
- AI pipeline orchestration
