Scholium, AI Research Assistant

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Hi HN! I made an AI research agent that finds, summarized, and cites papers based on your query. I’ve written my fair share of papers in university and I’m a copy editor for our student paper as well. When fact checking, I noticed that Google often recommended unreliable scholarly sources(Medium articles, Reddit comments, and Linkedin posts) first. For example, when you search for Transformers, the first 6 results are blogs and articles. It is only on the seventh that you get the Vaswani 2017 paper. This makes fact checking and source gathering very tedious and time consuming. I realized a lot of the repetitive work done in fact checking and source collection could be solved using a vector database and a retrieval model, which inspired me to create Scholium, an AI research agent that recommends and summarizes papers based on your query. Currently it only has access to all arXiv papers, but I plan on expanding the corpus soon! Please check out the repo and give it a star. Let me know what you all think! Web App: https://www.scholium.ai/ Repo: https://github.com/QDScholium/ScholiumAI

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