✅ Week 1–2: Python Programming
Learn variables, loops, functions, classes
Use NumPy, Pandas for data handling
Outcome: Write small scripts, process dataframes
✅ Week 3: Math Basics — Linear Algebra
Vectors, matrices, dot product, matrix operations
Outcome: Understand matrix ops for ML
✅ Week 4: Math Basics — Probability & Stats
Mean, variance, distributions, Bayes theorem
Outcome: Intuition for uncertainty, classification
✅ Week 5: Data Visualization
Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly
Outcome: Create insights from raw data
✅ Week 6–7: Data Wrangling Projects
Clean and explore datasets (Kaggle: Titanic, Iris)
Outcome: Complete EDA project
✅ Week 8: Git, Command Line, Notebooks
GitHub basics, CLI, Jupyter
Outcome: Organize and share projects
🟡 MONTH 3–4: Core ML (Weeks 9–16)
✅ Week 9: ML Concepts
Supervised vs. unsupervised, overfitting, bias/variance
Outcome: Know how ML fits in pipelines
✅ Week 10–11: Regression Models
Linear/Logistic regression with scikit-learn
Outcome: Predict numerical and binary outcomes
✅ Week 12: Classification Models
Decision Trees, KNN, Naive Bayes
Outcome: Train/evaluate classifiers
✅ Week 13: Model Evaluation
Accuracy, Precision, Recall, Confusion Matrix, AUC
Outcome: Choose right metric for model
✅ Week 14–15: Ensemble Methods
Random Forest, XGBoost, voting
Outcome: Boost model performance
✅ Week 16: Mini Project
House Price Prediction or Spam Detector
Outcome: 1 full ML pipeline project
🟠 MONTH 5–7: Deep Learning & NLP (Weeks 17–28)
✅ Week 17: Neural Networks Basics
Perceptron, activation, backprop
Outcome: Build first NN with PyTorch
✅ Week 18–19: CNNs (Images)
Convolutions, pooling, image classification
Outcome: Train CNN on MNIST/CIFAR
✅ Week 20: RNNs/LSTMs (Sequences)
Sequence modeling basics
Outcome: Predict text/sequence output
✅ Week 21–22: NLP Preprocessing
Tokenization, stemming, stopwords, embeddings
Outcome: Build basic NLP classifier
✅ Week 23–24: Transformers
BERT, GPT basics, attention mechanism
Outcome: Use Hugging Face to fine-tune models
✅ Week 25–26: NLP Project
Sentiment Analysis or QA Bot
Outcome: Deployable NLP app
✅ Week 27–28: Deep Learning Project
Image/NLP hybrid or multi-class model
Outcome: 1 full DL project on GitHub
🔴 MONTH 8–12: Advanced ML Engineering (Weeks 29–52)
✅ Week 29–30: Deployment Basics
Docker, Flask/FastAPI, REST APIs
Outcome: Deploy ML model as API
✅ Week 31–32: MLOps
MLflow, DVC, pipelines, monitoring
Outcome: Reproducible and trackable ML
✅ Week 33–34: Model Optimization
Quantization, ONNX, pruning
Outcome: Optimize for inference
✅ Week 35–36: GANs
Understand & build simple GANs
Outcome: Generate synthetic data
✅ Week 37–38: Reinforcement Learning
Q-learning, reward system
Outcome: Build a simple RL agent
✅ Week 39–40: RAG & LLM Apps
LangChain, vector DBs, retrieval+generation
Outcome: Mini LLM app (e.g., chatbot or doc Q&A)
✅ Week 41–44: Advanced Project
RAG chatbot / Custom vision + NLP app
Outcome: Full-stack AI system
✅ Week 45–48: Paper Reading + Replication
1 paper/week + implement (e.g., diffusion, SAM, etc.)
Outcome: Learn SOTA by building it
✅ Week 49–52: Capstone & Job Prep
Portfolio polish, interview prep, GitHub, blogs
Outcome: Job-ready portfolio + strong ML CV
🧠 Tools Covered
Code: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-Learn
MLOps: MLflow, DVC, Docker, FastAPI
Infra: GitHub, Jupyter, LangChain, ONNX
Platforms: Kaggle, PapersWithCode, Hugging Face Hub