The 4 Positional Encoding Methods: Why Word Order Is Everything in AI
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. The 4 Positional Encoding Methods: Why Word Order Is Everything in AI Understanding how Transformers learn sequences without sequential processing Image generated by Author using AIThis article delves into four distinctive methods of positional …
The 4 Gradient Clipping Methods: How to Prevent Training from Exploding
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. The 4 Gradient Clipping Methods: How to Prevent Training from Exploding You’re training a deep neural network. Image generated by Author using AIThis article explores the critical issue of exploding gradients in deep learning, …
OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex: The AI That Learned to Code Itself
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. OpenAI finally stops pushing porn and starts building coworkers OpenAI just dropped something that should make every software engineer pause their current Sprint planning. GPT-5.3-Codex isn’t just another incremental update to AI-assisted …
Word Embeddings in NLP: From Bag-of-Words to Transformers (Part 1)
Author(s): Sivasai Yadav Mudugandla Originally published on Towards AI. Image generated with Microsoft Copilot · 1. Introduction: Why Computers Struggle with Language· 2. What Are Word Embeddings and Why Do We Need Them? ∘ The Map Analogy ∘ Why We Need Them …
Agents 2.0: AI Agents that Can Learn (6 Learning Types that Make Memory Persistent)
Author(s): Divy Yadav Originally published on Towards AI. What if your AI actually remembered you? We call them AI agents. Personal assistants. Digital helpers. Photo by geminiThis article discusses the limitations of current AI agents, which typically do not learn from past …
I tuned a 7B Model That Outperforms GPT-4 (Here’s How You Can Too)
Author(s): Gaurav Shrivastav Originally published on Towards AI. A practical guide to understanding and implementing model specialization for real-world applications Last month, I helped a startup replace their GPT-4-powered customer service system with a fine-tuned 7B parameter model. The results were surprising: …
Build LLM-Powered Documentation that Always Stays True to latest codebeases
Author(s): Cocoindex Originally published on Towards AI. A practical guide to using Pydantic, Instructor, and incremental processing with CocoIndex to generate always-fresh Markdown docs from source code. Code is Open-sourced, and available in Github. (Apache 2.0) ⭐ Star if you like it! …
Stock Market Freefalls, But ElevenLabs Just Hit $11 Billion
Author(s): Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD. Originally published on Towards AI. Why Sequoia and the Tech World Are Betting the House on Voice Agents Another day another news cycle dominated by a valuation number that looks like a typo. But here’s the thing: …
Building Your First End-to-End ML Pipeline on AWS SageMaker: A Hands-On Guide
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. From Model Training to Production Monitoring — A Complete Walkthrough Building a machine learning model is one thing — deploying it to production and keeping it running reliably is another challenge entirely. This hands-on …
How to Become a $1.5 Million AI Engineer in 2026?
Author(s): Khushbu Shah Originally published on Towards AI. Four phases. One $1.5M AI career. Most people who search for how to become an AI engineer are training for the wrong job. They are learning neural networks, grinding Kaggle projects, and memorizing ML …
Building A Multi-Modal Investment Agent for Earnings Call Analysis
Author(s): Farhad Malik Originally published on Towards AI. A Working Investment Agent To Process Transcripts, Audio, and Charts with AI to Generate Insights Earnings calls are a key input to investment research, revealing management’s strategic direction, forward guidance, competitive positioning, and analyst …
From Chaos to Intelligence: How AI Training Actually Works
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. From Chaos to Intelligence: How AI Training Actually Works Understanding the fundamental mechanics of training large language models from scratch Image generated by Author using AIThis article discusses the intricate process of training large …
Building LLMs from Scratch: 7 Essential Types & Complete Implementation Guide
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. Building LLMs from Scratch: 7 Essential Types & Complete Implementation Guide Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence, powering applications from chatbots to code generation. Building an LLM from scratch is a complex …
7 Essential Types of LLM Benchmarking Every AI Developer Must Know
Author(s): TANVEER MUSTAFA Originally published on Towards AI. 7 Essential Types of LLM Benchmarking Every AI Developer Must Know In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the backbone of countless applications — from chatbots to …
Better Retrieval With Reasoning-Based RAG Using PageIndex
Author(s): Dr. Leon Eversberg Originally published on Towards AI. The next generation of RAG: How PageIndex improves retrieval accuracy without semantic search Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) adds the external knowledge contained in a large collection of documents to an LLM. RAG uses optimized …