Mentat-Lite: On-Device, Zero-Network AI Exam Prep Tutor & Study Studio for African Students (ADTC 2026 Submission)
# Mentat-Lite: Autonomous On-Device AI Exam Prep Tutor & Study Studio
**An on-device, zero-network AI study studio & exam-prep tutor engineered for African students on commodity 8 GB laptops.**
Devpost Submission • Technical Report (REPORT.md) • Model Metadata (metadata.json)
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## 💡 Overview
Over 2 million Nigerian students sit for high-stakes national examinations (**UTME/JAMB, WAEC, NECO**) every year under extreme constraints: expensive mobile data, unstable electricity, and low-spec 8 GB commodity laptops.
**Mentat-Lite** is Africa's answer to cloud AI dependency. It brings frontier STEM reasoning directly to the student's desk—running **100% offline** on CPU with zero cloud calls, zero token subscriptions, and zero data leakage.
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| MENTAT-LITE RUNTIME |
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| [ Electron Desktop Shell + React + TypeScript + KaTeX + Mermaid.js ] |
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| (Zero-IPC Overhead Bridge) |
| v |
| [ node-llama-cpp Runtime (CPU OpenBLAS/ARM) ] |
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| [ Grammar-Constrained JSON Decoding ] |
| v |
| [ Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct (GGUF Q4_K_M) — 3.2 GB Peak RSS ] |
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| [ Local WAEC/JAMB 20-Year Exam Question Bank ] |
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## ⚡ Key Features
* **🧠 Autonomous STEM Tutor:** Step-by-step mathematical calcula …