All notable changes to this project will be documented here.
This project follows Semantic Versioning. Format: ## [version] - YYYY-MM.
10_Hackathons/README.md— Hub landing page with 3-theme overview, decision matrix, stack of record (MongoDB Atlas + AWS)10_Hackathons/templates/— Canonical idea template, 90-second demo script template, judging rubric10_Hackathons/theme_1_prolonged_coordination/— README + 33 research-grounded hackathon ideas (#1–#33)10_Hackathons/theme_2_multi_agent_collaboration/— README + 44 ideas (#34–#77) including full A2A protocol coverage10_Hackathons/theme_3_adaptive_retrieval/— README + 23 ideas (#78–#100) anchored on ColPali, Search-R1, GraphRAG, HippoRAG10_Hackathons/deep_dive_ideas/— 10 full implementation blueprints (Viral Autopsy, Replicant, Portfall, Tipping Oracle, TruthWeight, ChronoLaw, Ghostwriter Forensics, Exodus Mapper, Protocol Darwin, Carbon Lie Detector)10_Hackathons/deep_dive_ideas/starter_code/— 4 runnable Python skeletons (ReasoningBank, A2A handshake, ColPali indexing, GraphRAG + HippoRAG PPR)11_Recent_Topics/README.md— Anchor papers index and usage guide11_Recent_Topics/2025_2026_trends.md— 25-row trend tracker with maturity ratings and per-role learning guide11_Recent_Topics/stack_watch.md— MongoDB Atlas, AWS, LLM landscape, retrieval stack, agent frameworks, LLMOps, fine-tuning tooling11_Recent_Topics/paper_digests/— 12 paper digests: ReasoningBank, MIRIX, Zep, SagaLLM, VIGIL, Magentic-One, A2A Protocol, MCP, ColPali, Search-R1, GraphRAG, HippoRAG
README.md— What's New (May 2026) section reflects new 10_Hackathons and 11_Recent_Topics additionsREADME.md— Paper Digests link updated to point to11_Recent_Topics/paper_digests/
05_Hands_On_Labs/challenges/— Community Challenges section with 3 inaugural challenges (Titanic, RAG from scratch, FastAPI + Docker)PROGRESS.md— Personal progress tracker template for forksCHANGELOG.md— This file- Forks and GitHub Actions badge in main README
- Footer navigation links in README (CHANGELOG, PROGRESS, CONTRIBUTING, LICENSE)
- New advanced notebooks:
finetuning_alignment,multi_agent,safety_guardrails,advanced_retrievalunder03_AI_Engineer/advanced/ - Interview prep notebooks for ML Engineer and AI Engineer tracks (
06_Interview_Prep/ml_engineer/,06_Interview_Prep/ai_engineer/) - Statistics foundation notebooks (
04_Foundations/statistics/)
- README badges now point to the correct repo
viraj97-sl/ai-ml-ds-learning-hub - Clone URL in
05_Hands_On_Labs/README.mdupdated to correct repo name - Broken
challenges/link in Hands-On Labs converted to a proper challenges directory
- All
yourusernameandai-ml-ds-hubplaceholders replaced withviraj97-slandai-ml-ds-learning-hub
03_AI_Engineer/advanced/track with 4 new notebooks:finetuning_alignment.ipynb— RLHF, DPO, Constitutional AImulti_agent.ipynb— LangGraph multi-agent orchestrationsafety_guardrails.ipynb— LLM safety, red-teaming, guardrailsadvanced_retrieval.ipynb— HyDE, re-ranking, multi-hop RAG
04_Foundations/statistics/— 5 statistics notebooks (descriptive, probability, hypothesis testing, regression, experimental design)04_Foundations/programming/sql_basics.md— SQL reference guide
- Expanded
07_Resources/withdatasets.mdlisting 50+ practice datasets - Updated salary data in
00_Overview/salary_guide.mdto 2026 figures
- Initial release of the AI/ML/DS Learning Hub
- Three full career tracks: Data Scientist, ML Engineer, AI Engineer
01_Data_Scientist/— 20 notebooks across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels02_ML_Engineer/— 14 notebooks (beginner + intermediate + advanced)03_AI_Engineer/beginner/— 5 notebooks (LLM APIs, prompt engineering, chatbot, basic RAG, deployment)03_AI_Engineer/intermediate/— 7 notebooks (advanced RAG, LangChain, vector DBs, agents, LlamaIndex, evals, production)04_Foundations/mathematics/— 7 mathematics notebooks (linear algebra, calculus, probability)05_Hands_On_Labs/— 20 standalone lab notebooks + mini-projects for all 3 tracks06_Interview_Prep/data_scientist/— 20+ Q&As, SQL challenges, coding problems07_Resources/— Books, courses, papers, communities, tools reference08_Career_Guide/— Portfolio guide, salary guide, networking guide00_Overview/— Role comparison, salary data, navigation guide- GitHub Actions link-checking workflow
- GitHub Codespaces devcontainer configuration
- CONTRIBUTING.md, LICENSE (MIT), requirements.txt, .gitignore
This changelog is maintained by the repo maintainers. Community contributors are credited in the Contributors section of the main README.