Generative AI Roadmap: From Beginner to ExpertLast updated: Apr 3, 2026Author :Jitendra KumarWhat is Generative AI & Its ApplicationsLinear Algebra & Matrix OperationsTransformers OverviewFoundationsProbability & Statistics RefresherDeep Learning Recap (Neural Networks, Backpropagation)AutoencodersGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs)Energy-Based ModelsGenerative ModelsVariational Autoencoders (VAEs)Diffusion Models (DDPM, Stable Diffusion)Language Models (RNNs, LSTMs, Transformers)Instruction Tuning & AlignmentFine-tuning & Parameter-efficient Tuning (LoRA, QLoRA)Text GenerationGPT Models (GPT-2 ā GPT-4 & Beyond)Prompt EngineeringRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)GAN Architectures (DCGAN, StyleGAN, CycleGAN)Text-to-Image PipelinesControlNet & Image ConditioningImage GenerationDiffusion Models (Stable Diffusion, Imagen, DALLĀ·E)Image Inpainting & OutpaintingText-to-Speech (Tacotron, WaveNet)Music Generation (Jukebox, Riffusion)Audio & Speech GenerationVoice Cloning ModelsSpeech-to-Speech TranslationVideo Generation with Diffusion ModelsMultimodal Models (CLIP, Flamingo, Gemini)Audio + Video SynchronizationVideo & Multimodal GenerationImage-to-Video ModelsText-to-Video (Runway Gen-2, Pika)Hugging Face Transformers & DiffusersVector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)ONNX & Model OptimizationTooling & FrameworksLangChain & LlamaIndex for LLM AppsDeployment with FastAPI, Docker, KubernetesExperiment Tracking (Weights & Biases, MLflow)Latency & Cost OptimizationMonitoring & Drift DetectionMLOps for Generative AIModel Serving at ScaleEvaluation Metrics (Perplexity, BLEU, FID, CLIP Score)Bias in Generative ModelsAI Safety & AlignmentResponsible AI GuidelinesEthics & SafetyHallucinations & GroundingCopyright & Intellectual Property ConcernsText Generation ChatbotVoice Cloning & Text-to-Speech AppText-to-Video DemoProjectsAI Image Generator (Stable Diffusion)Music Generation ProjectRAG-powered Knowledge AssistantGenerative Models Q&AGANs & Diffusion Model QuestionsScaling & Deployment QuestionsInterview PreparationLLMs & Fine-tuning QuestionsPrompt Engineering ScenariosCase Studies (ChatGPT, DALLĀ·E, Stable Diffusion)
