भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, नािपुर

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur

An Institution of National Importance by an Act of Parliament
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Five Months Online Certification Programme on Generative AI
20 Weeks Learning Roadmap of the Certification (4 hours per week)
Month Week Topic Key Focus Areas Hands-On / Evaluation Activities
01 1 Core Math Linear Algebra (Matrices, • Solve gradient problems and
Foundations Vectors), Probability Basics, matrix operations using Python.
(Condensed) Gradient Descent
2 ML Fundamentals Supervised & Unsupervised • Train a simple classification,
Learning, Key Evaluation regression and clustering model
Metrics using Scikit-learn.
3 Deep Learning Neural Networks, Activation • Build and train a simple NN with
Basics and Loss Functions, TensorFlow/PyTorch.
Optimizations
4 Deep Models, CNN, Sequence Models • Set up a basic LLM pipeline and API
Tools & Platforms Hugging Face, OpenAI API, integration.
Azure ML, Google Vertex AI • Nvidia Certification on
“Fundamentals of Deep
Learning”.
• Quiz 1.
02 5 Autoencoders Autoencoders (Basic & • Implement and train a VAE for
and Variants Variational), Data dimensionality reduction.
Reconstruction Applications
6 Generative GAN Architecture, Variants • Build and train a GAN to generate
Adversarial (StyleGAN, CycleGAN) simple images.
Networks (GANs)
7 Attention Self-Attention, Intuition, and • Implement a self-attention
Mechanisms Applications mechanism in PyTorch.
8 Transformer Transformer Architecture, • Fine-tune a pre-trained
Models BERT, GPT, T5 Transformer on a custom dataset.
• Quiz 2.
03 9 Large Language GPT-3, GPT-4, Tokenization, • Experiment with OpenAI’s GPT
Models (LLMs) Pretraining and Fine-tuning models for text generation.
• Text classification using
Transformers.
• Release of Capstone Project
Problem statements.
10 Deployment & Deploy LLMs, Post-Training • NER using Transformers.
Optimizations Optimizations, Few- and • Deploy a fine-tuned LLM on a
Zero-Shot Learning cloud platform like AWS or Azure.
• Nvidia Certification on “Building
Transformers based NLP
Applications”.
11 Scaling and Data, Model, and Tensor • Optimize model training using
Parallelism Parallelism; Scaling Laws distributed frameworks.
 12 Prompt Prompting Techniques, • Experiment with advanced
Engineering and Instruction Fine-Tuning, prompting and instruction fine-
PEFT RLHF tuning on GPT-based models.
• Quiz 3.
04 13 Improving LLM Retrieval-Augmented • Integrate RAG into an LLM for
Capabilities Generation (RAG), Vector knowledge-based augmentation.
Databases, LlamaIndex
14 GenAI Use Cases Azure OpenAI, Google • Build a GenAI application (e.g., SQL
and Platforms Vertex AI, Custom GenAI builder, grammar correction).
Applications
15 Computer Vision Object Detection, Image • Implementation of YOLO
Segmentation, OpenCV
16 GenAI for Vision Diffusion Models (Stable • Perform image segmentation
Diffusion, Classifier-Free using U-Net.
Guidance) • Generate images using Stable
Diffusion tools.
• Quiz 4.
• Mid evaluation of Capstone
Project.
05 17 GenAI for Vision CLIP • Implantation of CLIP and relevant
applications.
• Nvidia Certification on
“Generative AI with Diffusion
Models”.
18 Multimodal Vision-Language Models, • Implement a pipeline for image-
Models Multimodal GenAI text tasks (e.g., visual Q&A).
Techniques • Build an image captioning or visual
Q&A pipeline.
• Implementation of Deepfake and
hateful memes on multimodal
data.
• Nvidia Certification on
“Applications of AI for Anomaly
Detection”.
19 Ethical AI and Fairness, Bias, Copyright • Audit a pre-trained model for
Responsible AI Issues, Model Auditing biases and implement safety
measures.
20 Capstone Project Real-World GenAI • Evaluation of Capstone Project,
Evaluation Application Development Other evaluations, Grading, and
Certifications.

Nvidia Certification Links:

1. https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+C-FX-01+V3
2. https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+C-FX-03+V3
3. https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+S-FX-14+V1
4. https://learn.nvidia.com/courses/course-detail?course_id=course-v1:DLI+C-TC-01+V1

Programme Committee
1. Dr. Tausif Diwan, Associate Dean, IIIT Nagpur (Coordinator)
2. Dr. Amol Bhopale, Assistant professor, Dept. of CSE, IIIT Nagpur (Co-coordinator)
3. Dr. Nileshchandra Pikle, Assistant professor, Dept. of CSE, IIIT Nagpur (Co-coordinator)