LLM Design Patterns

A Practical Guide to Building Robust and Efficient AI Systems

Author: Ken Huang

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Explore reusable design patterns, including data-centric approaches, model development, model fine-tuning, and RAG for LLM application development and advanced prompting techniquesKey FeaturesLearn comprehensive LLM development, including data prep, training pipelines, and optimizationExplore advanced prompting techniques, such as chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, RAG, and AI agentsImplement evaluation metrics, interpretability, and bias detection for fair, reliable modelsPrint or Kindle purchase includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionThis practical guide for AI professionals enables you to build on the power of design patterns to develop robust, scalable, and efficient large language models (LLMs). Written by a global AI expert and popular author driving standards and innovation in Generative AI, security, and strategy, this book covers the end-to-end lifecycle of LLM development and introduces reusable architectural and engineering solutions to common challenges in data handling, model training, evaluation, and deployment.You’ll learn to clean, augment, and annotate large-scale datasets, architect modular training pipelines, and optimize models using hyperparameter tuning, pruning, and quantization. The chapters help you explore regularization, checkpointing, fine-tuning, and advanced prompting methods, such as reason-and-act, as well as implement reflection, multi-step reasoning, and tool use for intelligent task completion. The book also highlights Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), graph-based retrieval, interpretability, fairness, and RLHF, culminating in the creation of agentic LLM systems.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to build next-generation LLMs that are adaptable, efficient, safe, and aligned with human values.What you will learnImplement efficient data prep techniques, including cleaning and augmentationDesign scalable training pipelines with tuning, regularization, and checkpointingOptimize LLMs via pruning, quantization, and fine-tuningEvaluate models with metrics, cross-validation, and interpretabilityUnderstand fairness and detect bias in outputsDevelop RLHF strategies to build secure, agentic AI systemsWho this book is forThis book is essential for AI engineers, architects, data scientists, and software engineers responsible for developing and deploying AI systems powered by large language models. A basic understanding of machine learning concepts and experience in Python programming is a must.

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Ken Huang is a renowned AI expert, serving as co-chair of AI Safety Working Groups at Cloud Security Alliance and the AI STR Working Group at World Digital Technology Academy under the UN Framework. As CEO of DistributedApps, he provides specialized GenAI consulting.A key contributor to OWASP's Top 10 Risks for LLM Applications and NIST's Generative AI Working Group, Huang has authored influential books including Beyond AI (Springer, 2023), Generative AI Security (Springer, 2024), and Agentic AI: Theories and Practice (Springer, 2025)He's a global speaker at prestigious events such as Davos WEF, ACM, IEEE, and RSAC. Huang is also a member of the OpenAI Forum and project leader for the OWASP AI Vulnerability Scoring System project.