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Advanced Program
LLMs & RAG Systems
Retrieval that is accurate, current and measurable.
- Length
- 3 or 6 months
- Level
- Intermediate
- Weekly
- 8 to 12 hours
- Format
- Live cohort, Hybrid
- Modules
- 5 to 10
- Next intake
- To be announced
What you'll learn
A focused program on the most common production pattern for language models: grounding them in your organisation's knowledge. You move beyond demo-grade RAG to systems with hybrid search, reranking, access control and evaluation you can report to stakeholders.
By the end, you will be able to
- Design chunking and indexing for different document types
- Combine lexical and vector search with reranking
- Measure retrieval and answer quality separately
- Enforce document-level access control in retrieval
- Decide when fine-tuning beats retrieval
Curriculum
Switch between the 3- and 6-month options to see how the program expands. Every module includes a hands-on lab.
5 modules, 12 weeks, about 96 to 144 study hours
Core modulesCapstone
Topics
- Context limits
- Hallucination mechanics
- Long-context trade-offs
Lab
Measure accuracy as context grows
Estimated effort
16 to 24 hours over 2 weeks
Skills you'll build
- Retrieval-augmented generationAdvanced
- Vector searchAdvanced
- LLM evaluationAdvanced
- Fine-tuningWorking knowledge
- Knowledge graphsProficient
Tools and technologies
- Python
- pgvector
- Elasticsearch
- Hugging Face
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Neo4j
Product names are trademarks of their owners, listed only to describe what we teach. No endorsement is implied.
Portfolio projects
Representative projects from the curriculum. Your capstone is scoped with a mentor around a problem you choose.
Engineering docs assistant
Answer questions across wikis and code with citations and freshness.
Hybrid search, Reranking
6-month option
Permission-aware search
Ensure users only retrieve documents they can open.
Access control, Metadata filters
How it's delivered
- Live cohort
- Scheduled live classes each week with your cohort, recorded for different time zones, plus self-paced lessons and labs.
- Hybrid
- Self-paced lessons with fortnightly live workshops and mentor sessions.
Instructors
Instructor and mentor profiles for this program are published once each person's background has been verified. We don't show placeholder faces or borrowed credentials.
Admissions
- 1Submit an online application
- 2Readiness review by admissions
- 3Decision by email
- 4Confirm your place and start onboarding
Tuition
- 3-month optionPublished before intake
- 6-month optionPublished before intake
Payment options vary by country and are shown at checkout.
Tuition and payment optionsCertificate
Complete every required module, pass the assessments and the capstone review to earn the Advanced Program.
Each certificate has a unique ID and QR code that anyone can check on our verification page.
This is a professional credential issued by Zyvora Academy, not an academic degree.
Where it can lead
Roles this program builds toward. Outcomes depend on your background, effort and local job market; we don't guarantee employment.
AI Engineer
Builds products and internal tools on top of language and multimodal models.
Role detailsAI Solutions Architect
Designs how AI capabilities fit into an organisation's systems.
Role details
Program questions
Syllabus
Get the full syllabus
We'll email the detailed syllabus, and the fee sheet as soon as tuition for the next intake is published.
Advisor
Speak to an advisor
Ask about fit, prerequisites or which length suits you. An advisor replies by email to arrange a call.
