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S-LakeNLP — Streaming Lakehouse with Embedded NLP

M.Tech research: streaming data architecture combining Kafka, Flink, FinBERT inference and FAISS vector search, evaluated for latency, resource usage and model performance.

Role
M.Tech research project
Year
2026
Status
Research

Challenges & solutions

  1. 01

    Keep NLP inference latency low inside a stream

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    Problem

    Transformer inference is expensive per event.

    Solution

    Parallel Flink operators and batched inference; measured end-to-end latency.

Deep dive

🌊 S-LakeNLP

Streaming Lakehouse with Embedded NLP — M.Tech research project (May 2026).

Overview

A streaming data architecture combining Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, FinBERT inference and FAISS vector search.

  • Real-time processing, NLP inference and vector retrieval in a distributed data pipeline
  • Evaluated processing latency, resource usage and model performance for the proposed architecture

Architecture

Kafka topics ──▶ Flink stream processing ──▶ FinBERT sentiment inference
                                                   │
                                   Lakehouse storage ◀┘──▶ FAISS vector search