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2025 04 30 chankaya project plan

Chanakya University Project Plan

  1. Indian Knowledge System - Fine-tune model with Kannada dataset
  2. https://github.com/dwani-ai/artha
  3. Chanakya - Voice assistant deployment at Chanakya University

Indian Knowledge System

  • Collect dataset from different sources
  • Design and develop - data modelling and filtering to Instruction Template (LLM Chat Template)
  • Version 1
  • RAG system - to create vector data and provide accurate information about Kannada literature
  • Version 2

  • Finetune model using LORA to deploy model at different locations

  • Phase 1

  • Analysis of Arthashatra
    • Build a knowledge graph using Text books
  • Ask new questions

Project Chanakya

  • Deploy Voice Assistant system on campus
  • Student built Hardware based project connected to dwani.ai server self-hosted on GPU server
  • H/W system
  • PC Monitor, RaspberryPi 5 / Arduino , Microphone, Speaker, WiFI/LAN
  • S/W system

  • Embedded software running a user termnial/client.

    • to collect voice query
    • send it to dwani.ai server
    • play back the audio response

  • Tech Status

  • document processing
    • vllm server : Gemma3 4B/12B
    • indic translate server - 10/15GB VRAM for best translation with indian languages
    • docs-indic-server : use vllm-server and indic-translate for Document processing
  • Ex : https://huggingface.co/spaces/dwani/indic-pdf-chat-custom
  • pip install dwani