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    Virtual Assistant for Pest Management
    (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2025-06) Karri, Viswanada Chakravarthy
    Effective pest identification and management are essential for ensuring agricultural productivity, especially in regions with limited expert access. This work proposes a virtual assistant based on a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) [1] framework to support pest management tasks. The system utilizes a multimodal dataset consisting of pest images and annotated textual interactions, adapted from the AgriLLaVA corpus [2]. The assistant combines retrieval mechanisms with generative language models to generate contextually grounded responses. It is designed for deployment on local hardware with limited computational resources, integrating open-source models for both retrieval and generation. Preliminary results suggest that this approach can provide accurate, scalable, and interpretable support for field-level pest diagnostics.