MTech Projects on Artificial Intelligence — LLM, NLP & RAG 2026
Focus areas: Large Language Models (architecture, fine-tuning, alignment), Natural Language Processing (classification, generation, information extraction), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (indexing, retrieval, grounded generation, multi-agent RAG).
Why choose AI projects at ProjectsatBangalore?
- IEEE / Nature / arXiv style base papers
- PyTorch + Hugging Face pipelines
- LangChain / LlamaIndex RAG stacks
- Verified working journal links
- University-format reports
- 20–25 slide PPT + 50+ viva Q&A
- Demo UI (Gradio / Streamlit)
- Mentoring via WhatsApp / Zoom
LLM
Fine-tuning, prompting, evaluation
NLP
Classification, NER, generation
RAG
Retrieval, grounding, multi-agent
Journals
Verified Nature · arXiv · Springer
Tools & Stack
55+ Best LLM · NLP · RAG Project Topics
MTech-ready topics with recommended tools.
| # | Project Title | Domain | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🧠 Large Language Models (LLM) | |||
| 1 | Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs (LLaMA / Mistral) for Domain-Specific QA | Fine-Tune | PyTorch · HF Transformers · PEFT |
| 2 | LoRA / QLoRA Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Comparative Study | PEFT | Hugging Face · PEFT · bitsandbytes |
| 3 | Prompt Engineering Strategies – Zero-Shot, Few-Shot and Chain-of-Thought | Prompting | OpenAI API / Local LLM · Python |
| 4 | Instruction Tuning and Alignment of Small Language Models | Alignment | PyTorch · HF · Datasets |
| 5 | Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in LLM Outputs | Hallucination | Python · HF · Evaluation metrics |
| 6 | Evaluating Reliability of Larger vs Smaller Instructable LLMs | Reliability | API / Local models · Benchmarks |
| 7 | Quantisation (INT8 / INT4) Impact on LLM Accuracy and Latency | Quantisation | bitsandbytes · llama.cpp · HF |
| 8 | Knowledge Distillation from Large Teacher LLM to Student Model | Distillation | PyTorch · HF |
| 9 | Long-Context LLM Evaluation and RoPE Scaling Techniques | Long Context | HF · Local LLM |
| 10 | Safety Filtering and Content Moderation for LLM Applications | Safety | Python · Classifiers · LLM API |
| 📝 Natural Language Processing (NLP) | |||
| 11 | Text Classification with Transformer Models (BERT / RoBERTa / DistilBERT) | Classification | HF Transformers · PyTorch |
| 12 | Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Domain-Specific Corpora | NER | spaCy · HF · PyTorch |
| 13 | Sentiment Analysis and Aspect-Based Sentiment on Product Reviews | Sentiment | HF · PyTorch · Datasets |
| 14 | Abstractive and Extractive Text Summarisation Comparison | Summarisation | HF · BART / T5 · ROUGE |
| 15 | Machine Translation with Encoder–Decoder Transformers | MT | HF · Marian / NLLB |
| 16 | Question Answering (Extractive) on SQuAD-style Datasets | QA | HF · BERT · Evaluation |
| 17 | Topic Modelling and Clustering of Large Text Corpora | Topics | BERTopic · scikit-learn · HF |
| 18 | Text Generation Evaluation – BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore, Human Preference | Metrics | Python · evaluate library |
| 19 | Fake News / Misinformation Detection with Transformers and Classical ML | Fake News | HF · scikit-learn · PyTorch |
| 20 | Dialogue Act Classification and Conversational Intent Detection | Dialogue | HF · PyTorch |
| 21 | Low-Resource NLP – Transfer Learning for Indian Languages | Low-Resource | HF · IndicBERT / MuRIL |
| 22 | Information Extraction – Relation Extraction and Knowledge Graph Construction | IE / KG | spaCy · HF · NetworkX |
| 📚 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | |||
| 23 | End-to-End RAG Pipeline – Document Ingestion, Chunking, Embedding, Retrieval, Generation | RAG Pipeline | LangChain · FAISS · HF |
| 24 | Vector Database Comparison – FAISS vs Chroma vs Pinecone for RAG | Vector DB | FAISS · Chroma · LangChain |
| 25 | Hybrid Search (Dense + Sparse / BM25) for Improved Retrieval | Hybrid Search | LangChain · Elasticsearch / BM25 |
| 26 | Chunking Strategies and Overlap Impact on RAG Quality | Chunking | LangChain · LlamaIndex |
| 27 | Re-Ranking Retrieved Passages with Cross-Encoder Models | Re-Rank | HF · sentence-transformers |
| 28 | Multi-Hop and Multi-Document RAG for Complex Questions | Multi-Hop | LangChain · LlamaIndex |
| 29 | Multi-Agent RAG System for Domain Decision Support | Multi-Agent RAG | LangChain · Agents · LLM |
| 30 | RAG Evaluation – Faithfulness, Relevance, Context Precision Metrics | RAG Eval | RAGAS · TruLens · Python |
| 31 | Domain-Specific RAG Chatbot (Legal / Medical / Academic Papers) | Domain RAG | LangChain · Gradio · HF |
| 32 | GraphRAG – Knowledge Graph Enhanced Retrieval | GraphRAG | NetworkX · LangChain · Neo4j optional |
| 33 | Corrective RAG (CRAG) and Self-Reflective Retrieval Loops | CRAG | LangChain · Python |
| 34 | Multimodal RAG – Text + Image Document Understanding | Multimodal RAG | LangChain · CLIP · HF |
| 🤝 Agents & Tool Use | |||
| 35 | LLM Agent with Tool Calling – Search, Calculator, Code Interpreter | Tool Use | LangChain · OpenAI tools · Python |
| 36 | Multi-Agent Collaboration for Research and Report Generation | Multi-Agent | LangChain · CrewAI style · LLM |
| 37 | Planning and ReAct-Style Reasoning Agents | ReAct | LangChain · Python |
| 38 | Memory-Augmented Agents for Multi-Turn Conversations | Memory | LangChain · Vector store |
| ⚙️ Fine-Tuning, Training & Efficiency | |||
| 39 | Dataset Curation and Synthetic Data Generation for Fine-Tuning | Data | Python · HF Datasets · LLM |
| 40 | Preference Optimisation (DPO / RLHF-style) for Alignment | Preference | TRL · HF · PyTorch |
| 41 | Continual Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation for LLMs | Continual | PyTorch · HF |
| 42 | Efficient Inference – Caching, Speculative Decoding Concepts | Inference | vLLM / HF · Benchmarks |
| 📊 Evaluation & Applications | |||
| 43 | Benchmarking LLMs on Reasoning and Coding Tasks | Benchmarks | Python · Open benchmarks |
| 44 | Bias and Fairness Evaluation in Language Models | Bias | Python · Evaluation suites |
| 45 | Educational Tutor Chatbot with RAG over Course Materials | EdTech | LangChain · Gradio |
| 46 | Customer Support Ticket Classification and Auto-Reply with LLM | Support | HF · LangChain · Streamlit |
| 47 | Code Generation and Code Explanation Assistant | Code LLM | HF · Code models · Gradio |
| 48 | Scientific Paper Summarisation and Citation Suggestion | Scientific NLP | HF · RAG · arXiv data |
| 49 | Multilingual RAG for Cross-Language Document QA | Multilingual | LangChain · Multilingual embeddings |
| 50 | Voice-to-LLM Pipeline – Speech Recognition + LLM Response | Speech + LLM | Whisper · HF · Gradio |
| 🚀 Advanced & Research-Oriented | |||
| 51 | Interpreting Attention and Internal Representations of Transformers | Interpretability | PyTorch · BertViz · HF |
| 52 | LLM-as-Judge for Automatic Evaluation of Generated Text | LLM-as-Judge | Python · API / Local LLM |
| 53 | Structured Output and Function Calling Reliability Study | Structured Out | LangChain · Pydantic · LLM |
| 54 | Privacy-Preserving RAG – On-Device / Local-Only Pipeline | Private RAG | Local LLM · FAISS · LangChain |
| 55 | Comparison of Open-Weight Reasoning Models vs Closed APIs | Open vs Closed | API · Local models · Benchmarks |
| 56 | End-to-End AI Lab: NLP Classifier + RAG Chatbot + Evaluation Dashboard | Full Stack AI | HF · LangChain · Gradio · RAGAS |
★ All 56 topics are suitable for MTech with base paper, implementation guidance, evaluation metrics, university-format report, PPT and viva Q&A.
Verified Working Journal & Paper Links (LLM · NLP · RAG)
Stable links to Nature, arXiv, Springer and related venues. Verified as working references.
| # | Publication | Venue | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📰 Nature & High-Impact | |||
| 1 | Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable | Nature 2024 | nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07930-y |
| 2 | Increasing alignment of large language models with language processing in the human brain | Nat Comput Sci 2025 | nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00863-0 |
| 3 | OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak | Nature News 2025 | nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02495-w |
| 4 | Capable language models can outgrow the benefits of collaboration | Nat Mach Intell | nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01268-y |
| 📰 arXiv / RAG & LLM Surveys (Stable) | |||
| 5 | Understanding the Fundamental Design Decisions of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems | arXiv | arxiv.org/abs/2411.19463 |
| 6 | RAGentA: Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Attributed QA | arXiv | arxiv.org/abs/2506.16988 |
| 7 | arXiv – Search: Retrieval Augmented Generation | arXiv Search | arxiv.org (RAG search) |
| 8 | arXiv – Search: Large Language Models | arXiv Search | arxiv.org (LLM search) |
| 📰 Springer & Other | |||
| 9 | A systematic literature review of LLM-based data visualization | Springer 2026 | link.springer.com/.../s44163-026-02291-z |
| 10 | ACL Anthology – NLP & LLM Papers | ACL | aclanthology.org |
| 11 | Hugging Face Papers – LLM / RAG Daily Papers | HF Papers | huggingface.co/papers |
| 12 | Papers With Code – RAG Methods | PWC | paperswithcode.com (RAG) |
| 13 | Papers With Code – Language Modelling | PWC | paperswithcode.com (NLP) |
| 14 | Google Scholar – Retrieval Augmented Generation | Scholar | scholar.google.com (RAG) |
| 15 | Google Scholar – Large Language Models Fine-Tuning | Scholar | scholar.google.com (LLM FT) |
| 16 | Semantic Scholar – RAG / LLM | Semantic Scholar | semanticscholar.org (RAG) |
| 17 | OpenReview – LLM / RAG Conference Papers | OpenReview | openreview.net (RAG) |
| 18 | IEEE Xplore – Large Language Models | IEEE | ieeexplore.ieee.org (LLM) |
| 19 | ACM Digital Library – RAG / LLM | ACM | dl.acm.org (RAG) |
| 20 | LangChain Documentation (Implementation Reference) | Docs | python.langchain.com |
| 21 | Hugging Face Transformers Documentation | Docs | huggingface.co/docs/transformers |
| 22 | RAGAS – RAG Evaluation Framework | Docs | docs.ragas.io |
★ Links above were selected as stable, publicly reachable references (Nature, arXiv, Springer, ACL, HF, PWC, Scholar, IEEE, ACM, official docs). Institutional access may be required for some full texts.
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