🚀✨ PC: Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) ✨🚀

🎯 Goal

🤖 Understand the basics of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances LLMs for tasks like text generation and answering complex queries. You will learn to use LLMs in combination with a retrieval system to improve performance. No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity! 🚀

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📌 What You Will Learn 🧠💡

✅ What are Large Language Models (LLMs)?
✅ What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
✅ Setting Up LLM and RAG for Text Generation
✅ Running LLM and RAG for Text Generation
✅ How to use RAG with Hugging Face to enhance text generation
✅ Hands-on coding with Google Colab and Hugging Face

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🤖 1. What is a Large Language Model (LLM)?

🧠 Understanding LLMs in Simple Terms

A Large Language Model (LLM) is a type of AI model that can understand and generate human-like text. It learns by analyzing massive amounts of text data, recognizing patterns, and predicting words based on context.

📌 Real-World Examples:

• ✅ Chatbots like Siri, Google Assistant, ChatGPT 🗣️
• ✅ AI-powered writing assistants (Grammarly, Jasper AI) ✍️
• ✅ Search engines predicting your queries 🔍
• ✅ AI-generated stories and essays 📖

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🔧 2. What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?

🖼️ Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Visual Representation

Source: RAG and LLM Integration

🧠 How RAG Enhances Large Language Models 🔗

💡 Think: How do retrieval and generation work together to improve AI responses? 🤔

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI framework that improves large language models (LLMs) by integrating an external knowledge retrieval process. This allows the model to pull relevant information from a document database instead of relying only on its pre-trained knowledge.

• User Query (💬): A user submits a question, which is then processed by the system to find relevant information.

• Vector Database & Document Storage (📂)

  • Documents are converted into numerical embeddings using an encoder model.
  • These embeddings are stored in a vector database for efficient retrieval.

• Encoder Model (🧩)

  • The user's query is transformed into an embedding representation.
  • The system finds the closest related documents using k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN).

• Context Retrieval & Augmentation (🔍➡️📖)

  • The most relevant documents are retrieved from the vector database.
  • These documents are added as extra context for the LLM before generating a response.

• Large Language Model (LLM) Processing (🧠)

  • The LLM combines its pre-trained knowledge with the retrieved external information.
  • This enhances accuracy and reduces hallucination, improving response quality.

• Final Answer Generation (✅)

  • The model generates a well-informed response using both internal and retrieved knowledge.
  • The final answer is then returned to the user.

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Why RAG Matters? 🚀

✅ More Accurate – Reduces AI hallucinations by retrieving real-time, external information.
✅ Scalable – Works with large document collections without needing to retrain the model.
✅ Efficient – Uses vector search for fast, semantic document matching.

📖Traditional LLMs generate responses based on probability distributions learned from training data. RAG mitigates hallucinations by injecting real-time knowledge, making responses more factually grounded.

🛠️ How Does RAG Work?

RAG enhances LLMs by integrating retrieval and generation to provide more accurate responses. Instead of relying solely on pre-trained knowledge, it fetches relevant information from external databases before generating a response.

📚 Steps in RAG:

1️⃣ Retrieval: The model searches for relevant documents from a knowledge base.
2️⃣ Augmentation: The retrieved data is passed as context to the LLM.
3️⃣ Generation: The LLM generates a response based on the retrieved information.

📌 Example:

• If you ask about a recent scientific breakthrough, RAG can retrieve research papers or trusted sources before forming an answer.

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🔧 3. Setting Up LLM and RAG for Text Generation

🚀 Step 1: Open Google Colab

1️⃣ Open your browser and go to Google Colab.
2️⃣ Click + New Notebook to begin.

🛠️ Step 2: Set Up Hugging Face Account and Access Token

1️⃣ Sign up on Hugging Face: Go to Hugging Face Sign-Up and create a free account.
2️⃣ Generate an Access Token:

• Click on your profile icon and go to Your Account Settings.
• Scroll down to Access Tokens and click New Token.
• Give it a name (e.g., "Colab Access") and select Read access.
• Click Generate Token and copy the token.

✅ Hugging Face account setup complete! You're now ready to log in. 🔑🎉

📚 Step 3: Login in Colab with the Token

➕🐍 Add a New Code Cell

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2️⃣ Copy and paste the following code into the new code cell.

🔗 ChatGPT prompt to generate the code

# Import Hugging Face login module
# This allows secure access to Hugging Face models and datasets
from huggingface_hub import notebook_login  

# Trigger login prompt to authenticate with your access token
notebook_login()  

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) and follow the instructions.

✅ Logged in successfully! Now, let's verify authentication. 🎉

🔐 Step 4: Verify Authentication

➕🐍 Add a New Code Cell

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2️⃣ Copy and paste the following code into the new code cell.

🔗 ChatGPT prompt to generate the code

# Check if authentication is successful
!huggingface-cli whoami  

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) and check the output!

✅ If it prints your Hugging Face username, the setup is complete! 🎉

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🔧 4. Running LLM and RAG for Text Generation

📚 Step 1: Install and Import Required Libraries

Before importing the libraries, install the necessary dependencies by running the following command:

➕🐍 Add a New Code Cell

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# Install Hugging Face Transformers, FAISS, and datasets
# FAISS is used for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors
# Datasets is needed to create and manage document collections for retrieval
!pip install transformers faiss-cpu datasets torch

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to install the required packages.

✅ Dependencies installed successfully! Now, let's import the necessary libraries. 📚🎉

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# Import required libraries for RAG implementation
from transformers import RagTokenizer, RagRetriever, RagSequenceForGeneration
from datasets import load_dataset
import torch

# For visualization and debugging
import pandas as pd

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to import the libraries.

✅ Libraries imported successfully! You're now ready to set up the knowledge base for retrieval. 🚀🎉

🗃️ Step 2: Set Up Knowledge Base for Retrieval

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🔗 ChatGPT prompt to generate the code

# Load a small dataset to use as our knowledge base
# We're using the "wiki_qa" dataset which contains question-answer pairs
print("Loading knowledge base dataset...")
dataset = load_dataset("wiki_qa", split="train")

# Let's look at what our knowledge base contains
print("\nDataset structure:")
print(dataset)

# Let's see a few examples from our knowledge base
print("\nSample entries from our knowledge base:")
for i in range(3):  # Show 3 examples
    print(f"\nEntry {i+1}:")
    print(f"Question: {dataset[i]['question']}")
    print(f"Answer: {dataset[i]['answer']}")
    print(f"Document: {dataset[i]['document_title']}")

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to set up the knowledge base.

✅ Knowledge base set up successfully! Now, let's load the RAG model components. 🧠🎉

🧠 Step 3: Load the RAG Model Components

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# Load the tokenizer for processing text input
print("Loading RAG tokenizer...")
tokenizer = RagTokenizer.from_pretrained("facebook/rag-sequence-nq")

# For a simpler demonstration, let's use a question-answering model directly
# This avoids the complex RAG setup issues while still demonstrating LLM capabilities
print("\nLoading a simpler question-answering model...")
from transformers import BartForConditionalGeneration, BartTokenizer

# Load BART model for text generation
model_name = "facebook/bart-large-cnn"
print(f"Loading {model_name} model...")
model = BartForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_name)
bart_tokenizer = BartTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

print("\nModel components loaded successfully!")

# Define a function to simulate RAG by manually adding context
def simulate_rag_response(question, additional_context=""):
    print(f"Generating response for: '{question}'")
    
    # Knowledge base (simplified version of what RAG would retrieve)
    knowledge = {
        "photosynthesis": "Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.",
        "solar system": "The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound to it, such as the eight planets, their moons, and smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets.",
        "water": "Water is a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid composed of hydrogen and oxygen (H2O) that forms the oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain of our planet and is the fluid essential for all known forms of life.",
        "eiffel tower": "The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower located in Paris, France. It was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and is named after engineer Gustave Eiffel.",
        "relativity": "The theory of relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, describes the physics of motion in relation to reference frames. It includes special relativity and general relativity, transforming our understanding of space, time, and gravity."
    }
    
    # Simplified "retrieval" step - check if keywords from question match our knowledge base
    context = ""
    for keyword, info in knowledge.items():
        if keyword in question.lower():
            context = info
            break
    
    # If no matching keyword found and additional context provided, use that
    if not context and additional_context:
        context = additional_context
    
    # If still no context, use a generic response
    if not context:
        context = "I don't have specific information about that topic in my knowledge base."
    
    # Create input with context (similar to how RAG would augment the question)
    input_text = f"Answer this question based on the following information: {context} Question: {question}"
    
    # Tokenize and generate response
    inputs = bart_tokenizer([input_text], max_length=1024, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True)
    summary_ids = model.generate(
        inputs["input_ids"], 
        num_beams=4, 
        min_length=30, 
        max_length=150, 
        early_stopping=True
    )
    
    # Decode and return the generated response
    response = bart_tokenizer.decode(summary_ids[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
    
    return response

print("\nSimulated RAG system is ready!")

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to load the RAG model components.

📌 Note: When running this step, you may see a prompt asking:

Do you wish to run the custom code? [y/N]

Type 'y' and press Enter to allow the model to load properly. This is required for some Hugging Face models.

✅ RAG model components loaded successfully! Now, let's prepare a query and generate a response using RAG. 🚀🎉

📚 Step 4: Prepare a Query and Generate a Response with RAG

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# Define a function to generate responses using our simulated RAG system
def generate_rag_response(question):
    return simulate_rag_response(question)

# Define our query - feel free to change this to any question you like!
query = "What is the process of photosynthesis?"

# Generate a response using our RAG system
response = generate_rag_response(query)

# Display the response
print("\n✨ Generated Answer:")
print(response)

🔗 ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to generate a response using the complete RAG system.

🎯 Challenge: Try your own questions!

• Edit the query = "What is the process of photosynthesis?" line with your own question
• Try questions about historical events, scientific processes, or general knowledge
• Compare the responses with what you know about the topics
• See how the model's responses are informed by the retrieved information

✅ RAG response generated successfully! You now have a complete RAG system retrieving information and generating answers. 🚀🎉

🔍 Step 5: Visualize the Retrieval Process (Optional)

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# This function helps us see what documents were retrieved for a query
def inspect_retrieved_documents(question):
    # In our simulated RAG system, let's demonstrate what would happen
    print(f"Retrieval process for query: '{question}'")
    print("\nSimulated retrieval process:")
    
    # Knowledge base (same as in our simulate_rag_response function)
    knowledge = {
        "photosynthesis": "Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.",
        "solar system": "The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound to it, such as the eight planets, their moons, and smaller bodies such as asteroids and comets.",
        "water": "Water is a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid composed of hydrogen and oxygen (H2O) that forms the oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain of our planet and is the fluid essential for all known forms of life.",
        "eiffel tower": "The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower located in Paris, France. It was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and is named after engineer Gustave Eiffel.",
        "relativity": "The theory of relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, describes the physics of motion in relation to reference frames. It includes special relativity and general relativity, transforming our understanding of space, time, and gravity."
    }
    
    # Demonstrate how retrieval works by showing:
    print("1. Query analysis - extracting key terms from:", question)
    
    # Find matching documents (simplified)
    found = False
    for keyword, info in knowledge.items():
        if keyword in question.lower():
            print(f"\n2. Retrieved document about '{keyword}':")
            print(f"   {info[:100]}...")
            found = True
            break
    
    if not found:
        print("\n2. No exact matches found in knowledge base.")
        print("   In a real RAG system, semantic search would find related documents.")
    
    # Display a visual representation of the RAG process
    print("\n📊 RAG Pipeline Visualization:")
    print("Query → [Encoder] → Query Embedding")
    print("                       ↓")
    print("Knowledge Base → [Retriever] → Relevant Documents")
    print("                                 ↓")
    print("Query + Relevant Documents → [Generator] → Enhanced Response")

# Let's see how retrieval works for our query
inspect_retrieved_documents(query)

🔗 [ChatGPT explanation for the code

3️⃣ Click Run (▶) to visualize the retrieval process.

✅ You now understand how the retrieval process works in a RAG system! 🔍🎉

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🎯 5. Wrap-Up & Next Steps

🎉 Congratulations! You learned how to:
✅ Use a Large Language Model (LLM) for text generation.
✅ Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve text generation.
✅ Use Hugging Face for easy access to pre-trained models and retrieval systems.

🚀 Next Workshop: 🔍 Ethical AI & Future Trends

🔗 Additional AI Resources 📚

• Google Colab Guide
• Python Introduction (Use only the two green buttons “Previous” and “Next” to navigate the tutorial and avoid ads.)
• Microsoft: AI for Beginners
• Microsoft: RAG and Knowledge Retrieval Fundamentals

🎉 Keep learning AI, and see you at the next workshop! 🚀

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