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# 📚 AI Study Assistant (Powered by Microsoft Phi-3)

Welcome to the **AI Study Assistant** — your personalized academic learning tool, built to help students understand complex course material with clarity, precision, and speed.

### 🚀 What it does

- ✅ **Upload Study Material**: PDF, DOCX, TXT, or PPTX
- 🤖 **Ask Questions**: About any concept in the uploaded files
- 🧠 **AI-Powered Reasoning**: Uses Microsoft’s Phi-3 (128k) to provide deep, structured, academic responses
- 📊 **Retrieval-Augmented Generation**: Combines vector-based document search with LLMs
- 📘 **Context-Based Answers**: Doesn’t hallucinate — only uses what’s in your file
- ✨ **Auto-Summary**: Large answers are summarized into a short academic recap

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### 🎓 Who it's for

- Students revising for exams
- Professionals needing quick insights from documents
- Educators building tutoring tools
- Anyone learning from dense academic material

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### 🛠 How it works

1. **Upload** one or more lecture files (PDF, Word, PPT, TXT)
2. Ask a question like:
   - *"Define supervised learning"*
   - *"Explain the difference between classification and regression"*
3. The AI will:
   - Extract your document
   - Find the most relevant parts
   - Think deeply using a powerful LLM
   - Give a clean, well-structured, academic answer

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### 🧠 Under the hood

| Component        | Description                                              |
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| **LLM**           | `microsoft/phi-3-mini-128k-instruct` (4-bit CPU mode)     |
| **Vector Search** | FAISS + HuggingFace MiniLM Embeddings                   |
| **Framework**     | Gradio Interface via Hugging Face Spaces               |
| **Auto Summary**  | DistilBART summarization for long answers               |

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### 🔒 Privacy

This app does **not** store or log any of your uploaded files or questions. All processing happens in memory and is discarded after your session.

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### 💬 Example Prompts

> - "List all types of memory in operating systems"
> - "What does this document say about reinforcement learning?"
> - "Explain deadlock prevention based on the slides"

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### 💡 Inspiration

Built to replicate how a personal AI tutor should behave: focused, accurate, context-aware, and reliable — not a chatbot, but a **study partner**.

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### 🧑‍💻 Built by

> Designed & developed by a student — for students — using only open-source models.

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### 📎 Tags

`#Education` `#AI` `#Phi3` `#StudentTools` `#NLP` `#Gradio` `#DocumentQA` `#OpenSource`