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About the Author and Project

Author

Polo Li is the principal author and maintainer of Awesome AI Roadmap. Project activity, contribution history, and contact information are available through the GitHub profile.

What this handbook covers

Awesome AI Roadmap is an English-first AI engineering interview handbook with a complete Simplified Chinese companion. It starts with LLM foundations and extends to multimodal systems, tools, agents, RAG, frameworks and orchestration, production engineering, safety and governance, and forward deployed engineering. The focus is on explaining distinctions, making engineering trade-offs, and understanding production constraints.

It is not a vendor catalog or an attempt to list every paper. Each concept has a main place for its detailed explanation; other chapters link to it and explain what changes at their own layer of the system.

Use the handbook to practice foundational explanations, design choices, and follow-up questions. Project answers must still reflect your own experience. The explicitly hypothetical cases are design exercises, not claims that the author delivered those projects.

How the content is maintained

  • Prefer specifications, official documentation, original papers, and reproducible engineering reports.
  • Preserve the dates, environments, and source limitations attached to version, performance, and business claims.
  • Keep changes in Git history. Page dates reflect the history of the current file path, which can change during a directory or language migration.
  • Start content changes in the English manuscript and review the corresponding Chinese update in the same PR.
  • Report factual errors, broken references, or ambiguous explanations through GitHub Issues.

See the editorial, citation, and correction policy for the detailed rules.

License

The repository's original text and diagrams are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. When sharing, translating, or adapting them, credit the author and project, provide the original link, and indicate changes as required by the license.