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Project Title: NIELIT Ropar AI Chatbot - Educational Information Assistant
Description:
I'm building an open-source educational chatbot to help students and prospective candidates access information about NIELIT Ropar (National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Ropar) courses, admissions, facilities, and placements.
Project Details:
Fine-tuned Llama-3.2-3B model on NIELIT Ropar institutional data
Currently deployed as a public Gradio Space for free community access
Model: LovnishVerma/nielit-ropar-GGUF (3.4GB Q4_K_M quantized)
Purpose: Democratizing access to educational information for students in India
Why I Need GPU Access:
The chatbot currently runs on a free CPU tier, resulting in 150+ second response times, making it unusable for real users. With Zero-A10G access, I can provide instant responses (2-3 seconds) to help thousands of students get quick answers about courses, fees, admissions, and facilities.
Community Impact:
Helps students from rural areas access institutional information 24/7
Reduces load on administrative staff
Open-source model and code for others to replicate for their institutions
Educational use case promoting AI literacy
Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/LovnishVerma/NIELIT-Assistant
Estimated Usage: 4-8 minutes/month (light community usage for educational demos and student queries)
This is a non-commercial, educational side project aimed at making institutional information more accessible to students through AI.
Lovnish Verma
Project Engineer
NIELIT, Ropar