Information Retrieval Courses and Certifications

University of Victoria Career Certificate

Music Information Retrieval

5 ratings

Build music information retrieval systems: spectral analysis, monophonic pitch estimation, beat tracking, genre and mood classification, music recommendation, query-by-humming, and automatic chord detection.

• Kadenze
• 96 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Text Retrieval and Search Engines

13 ratings

Learn how search engines rank text: build inverted indexes, apply vector space and language models, evaluate with nDCG, and explore learning to rank and recommender systems.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Information Processing and Retrieval

Organize, search, and retrieve information efficiently for digital libraries, archives, data management, and information retrieval systems.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 12, 2026
• Free Online Course

AI Engineer

Information Retrieval from the Ground Up

1 rating

Trace how decades of information retrieval research underpin modern search and RAG, and how machine learning has improved established approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenSource Connections

Comparing AI-Augmented Information Retrieval Strategies

A query’s journey through AI-powered information retrieval, comparing fine-tuned models, RAG pipelines, and reranking by use case.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenSource Connections

AI-Powered Search: Navigating the Evolving Lexicon of Information Retrieval - Keynote

A tour of how today’s AI search vocabulary maps onto established information-retrieval techniques, from sparse and dense retrieval to ranking and nearest-neighbor search.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Science Dojo

How Agentic Search is Redefining Information Retrieval

See how search agents break complex queries into subquestions, test hypotheses, and synthesize sources to move beyond keyword matching.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AWS Events

How AI and ML Are Changing Information Retrieval - From Word Matching to Meaning Matching

See how AI shifts information retrieval from word matching to meaning matching through vectors, embeddings, and neural search.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data

Learn how search engines index and rank documents: TFxIDF, vector space models, inverted files, PageRank and HITS, plus precision/recall evaluation, stemming, relevance feedback and enterprise search.

• Coursera
• 16 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Coursera

Blend Hybrid Search

Build a hybrid search system from scratch: combine BM25 keyword scores with dense vector scores, tune the alpha weighting parameter, and evaluate relevance with NDCG.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Victoria

Music Retrieval Systems

Build music information retrieval systems: audio fingerprinting with minhash and locality sensitive hashing, query-by-humming, chord detection with hidden Markov models, transcription, and source separation.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Supercharged Search with Typesense

Build fast, interactive Laravel search with Typesense, covering queries, filters, facets, instant search, ranking, Laravel Scout, and semantic search.

• Laracasts
• 4 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Retrieval Evaluation

Learn to evaluate lexical, vector, and hybrid retrieval with core metrics, benchmark analysis, and a hands-on evaluation pipeline.

• MongoDB University
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

AI Engineer

How Codeium Breaks Through the Ceiling for Retrieval

Examines how next-generation retrieval for AI coding tools moves beyond embeddings, including benchmark limits and the challenge of serving custom models at scale.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Machine Learning

16276 ratings at Coursera

Learn machine learning through practical case studies: build regression, classification, clustering, and retrieval systems that analyze large datasets and make predictions.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses