Pathway 11: "I'm a Domain Expert Applying LLMs" (Healthcare / Legal / Finance Professional)

Target audience: Healthcare, legal, finance, and other domain professionals with deep expertise but limited ML background

Goal: Build LLM applications tailored to your domain while navigating regulatory requirements, ensuring accuracy, and integrating with existing professional workflows.

Chapter Guide

• Start Ch 00: ML and PyTorch Foundations (if unfamiliar with ML concepts) review ML basics if unfamiliar
• Focus Ch 10: Working with LLM APIs (your practical starting point) your practical starting point with LLMs
• Focus Ch 11: Prompt Engineering write prompts tailored to your domain
• Focus Ch 12: Hybrid ML+LLM Architectures combine domain models with LLM reasoning
• Skim Ch 14: Fine-Tuning Fundamentals consider fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks
• Focus Ch 19: Embeddings and Vector Databases index your domain documents for retrieval
• Focus Ch 20: RAG ground LLM answers in your domain knowledge
• Focus Ch 21: Conversational AI build chatbots for your domain users
• Skim Ch 25: Specialized Agents (domain-specific agent patterns) agent patterns for healthcare, legal, finance
• Focus Ch 28: LLM Applications applied patterns relevant to your domain
• Skim Ch 29: Evaluation and Experiment Design measure accuracy for your domain's standards
• Focus Ch 32: Safety, Ethics and Compliance regulatory compliance for your industry
• Skim Ch 33: Strategy, Product and ROI build the business case in your organization
• Optional Ch 34: Emerging Architectures upcoming models relevant to domain applications
• Skim Ch 35: AI and Society governance and labor market implications for your industry