Foundation Research Division

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// 3 Research Projects

Foundation Models / NLP

ACTIVE

Indic Multilingual Foundation Model (IMFM-7B)

Development of a 7-billion parameter multilingual large language model pre-trained on 22 scheduled Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Odia. The model uses a custom BPE tokenizer optimised for Devanagari and Dravidian script families, targeting instruction-following and reasoning tasks across low-resource Indian language pairs.

LLMMultilingualIndicFoundation ModelsNLP

Lead: Team Member 01, Team Member 04Since 2025

Responsible AI / Policy

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Responsible AI Audit Framework for Public Sector Deployments

Design and validation of a systematic audit framework for assessing fairness, accountability, transparency and explainability (FATE) in AI systems deployed in government and public-interest contexts. Includes automated bias detection toolchains, stakeholder impact assessments, and regulatory compliance checklists aligned with the Digital India Act.

Responsible AIFairnessPolicyAuditGovernance

Lead: Team Member 02, Team Member 05Since 2025

Edge AI / Systems

ACTIVE

Edge Inference Optimisation on Resource-Constrained Devices

Research into quantisation, pruning, and knowledge distillation techniques to enable sub-1B parameter language models to run inference on Raspberry Pi-class and mobile SoC devices with under 512 MB of DRAM. Target applications include offline health diagnostics, agricultural advisory, and rural e-governance.

Edge AIQuantisationModel CompressionIoTEmbedded Systems

Lead: Team Member 03, Team Member 06Since 2025