Learning Paths

Focused paths for one capability at a time

Skill paths are narrower than courses. Each one gathers the lessons and review checkpoints needed to build one concrete ML systems capability.

Focused Collection

Transformer Systems

6 paths

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Expert on Transformer Systems

Advanced Decoding Systems

A focused path for sampling controls, speculative decoding, Medusa, lookahead decoding, and DeepSeek MTP.

  • 5 steps
  • 9 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Advanced on Transformer Systems

Attention From Scratch

A focused transformer path for implementing attention scores, self-attention, masks, and multi-head shape transforms.

  • 4 steps
  • 7.2 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Expert on Transformer Systems

LLM Compression And Adaptation

A focused path for LoRA, quantization, large-model quantization diagnostics, quantization schemes, and MoE tradeoffs.

  • 5 steps
  • 12 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Advanced To Expert on Transformer Systems

LLM Inference Optimization

A focused path for understanding KV cache mechanics, shared-KV attention variants, efficient attention, and KV cache serving optimization.

  • 4 steps
  • 8.5 hr
  • 4 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Advanced on Transformer Systems

Positional Encoding Mastery

A focused path for absolute, rotary, relative, ALiBi/T5-style, and long-context position methods.

  • 4 steps
  • 7 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Advanced on Transformer Systems

Train A Tiny Transformer

A focused path for building a small end-to-end transformer training loop from tokens, embeddings, batches, layers, and decoding.

  • 5 steps
  • 7.9 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

Focused Collection

AI Agents

4 paths

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Beginner To Advanced on AI Agents

Build A Coding Agent Runtime

A focused path for understanding the minimal architecture needed to start a coding agent, route events, cross service boundaries, and execute runtime actions.

  • 5 steps
  • 4.3 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Advanced on AI Agents

Debug Agent Control Flow

A focused path for tracing conversation events, controller state transitions, and memory condensation boundaries.

  • 4 steps
  • 4.9 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Advanced on AI Agents

Extend Agents With Skills

A focused path for adding runtime capabilities and delegation behavior through OpenHands runtime components, memory, and microagents.

  • 3 steps
  • 4.2 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path

This path focuses the catalog around one working skill.

Skill path Intermediate To Advanced on AI Agents

Implement Agent Tool Use

A focused path for understanding how CodeAct and function calling convert model output into executable agent actions.

  • 4 steps
  • 5.1 hr
  • 3 outcomes
Open skill path