RAG Roadmap 2026

RAG roadmap, stage by stage

1. 011. Fundamentals

   • Python Basics

     • Data Structures and Algorithms
     • Object-Oriented Programming
     • Virtual Environments
     • Package Management pip

   • Machine Learning Basics

     • Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning
     • Model Training and Evaluation
     • Feature Engineering
     • Scikit-learn Library

   • NLP Fundamentals

     • Text Preprocessing Tokenization
     • Word Embeddings Word2Vec GloVe
     • Transformers Architecture
     • Hugging Face Transformers Library

2. 022. Core RAG Concepts

   • Information Retrieval

     • Vector Databases Pinecone Weaviate
     • Indexing Strategies
     • Similarity Search Cosine Similarity
     • BM25 Algorithm

   • Large Language Models LLMs

     • LLM Architectures GPT Llama
     • Prompt Engineering Techniques
     • Fine-tuning Concepts
     • OpenAI API Hugging Face Hub

   • Retrieval Augmented Generation

     • RAG Workflow Overview
     • Chunking Strategies
     • Embedding Models Sentence-BERT
     • Query Rewriting

3. 033. Advanced RAG Techniques