LLM Design Patterns: A Practical Guide to Building Robust and Efficient AI Systems

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Ken Huang

LLM Design Patterns

A Practical Guide to Building Robust and Efficient AI Systems

Ken Huang

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Packt Publishing Limited
30 May 2025

Artificial intelligence; Natural language & machine translation; Pattern recognition; Computer vision

Explore reusable design patterns, including data-centric approaches, model development, model fine-tuning, and RAG for LLM application development and advanced prompting techniques

Key Features

Learn comprehensive LLM development, including data prep, training pipelines, and optimization Explore advanced prompting techniques, such as chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, RAG, and AI agents Implement evaluation metrics, interpretability, and bias detection for fair, reliable models Print or Kindle purchase includes a free PDF eBook

Book 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 learn

Implement efficient data prep techniques, including cleaning and augmentation Design scalable training pipelines with tuning, regularization, and checkpointing Optimize LLMs via pruning, quantization, and fine-tuning Evaluate models with metrics, cross-validation, and interpretability Understand fairness and detect bias in outputs Develop RLHF strategies to build secure, agentic AI systems

Who 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.

By: Ken Huang
Imprint: Packt Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9781836207030
ISBN 10: 1836207034
Pages: 534
Publication Date: 30 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents Introduction to LLM Design Patterns Data Cleaning for LLM Training Data Augmentation Handling Large Datasets for LLM Training Data Versioning Dataset Annotation and Labeling Training Pipeline Hyperparameter Tuning Regularization Checkpointing and Recovery Fine-Tuning Model Pruning Quantization Evaluation Metrics Cross-Validation Interpretability Fairness and Bias Detection Adversarial Robustness Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Chain-of-Thought Prompting Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting Reasoning and Acting Reasoning WithOut Observation Reflection Techniques Automatic Multi-Step Reasoning and Tool Use Retrieval-Augmented Generation Graph-Based RAG Advanced RAG Evaluating RAG Systems Agentic Patterns

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.