Building an LLM tool to better understand scientific papers using RAG

Edgar
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4 min readDec 13, 2023

One way to understand a complex scientific paper is to decompose it into parts and explain it to a person that is not familiar with the area of knowledge that the paper belongs to. You might also need to understand other papers that are cited or related to the original paper to add context. As one starts to reading and understand a bit more, one might have questions about concepts or methods that the authors used. Large Language Models (LLMs) are a great tool to tackle this task. In this post, I use llamaindex to use retrieval augmented…

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Edgar
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PhD in Computer Science and AI. I write about AI in healthcare and Computer Science in general. The opinions expressed in my stories are my own :)