LitLLM: A Toolkit for Scientific Literature Review

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01788v1
• Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 02:41:28 GMT
• Title: LitLLM: A Toolkit for Scientific Literature Review
• Authors: Shubham Agarwal, Issam H. Laradji, Laurent Charlin, Christopher Pal
• Abstract summary: Toolkit operates on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) principles. System first initiates a web search to retrieve relevant papers. Second, the system re-ranks the retrieved papers based on the user-provided abstract. Third, the related work section is generated based on the re-ranked results and the abstract.
• Score: 15.080020634480272
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Conducting literature reviews for scientific papers is essential for understanding research, its limitations, and building on existing work. It is a tedious task which makes an automatic literature review generator appealing. Unfortunately, many existing works that generate such reviews using Large Language Models (LLMs) have significant limitations. They tend to hallucinate-generate non-actual information-and ignore the latest research they have not been trained on. To address these limitations, we propose a toolkit that operates on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) principles, specialized prompting and instructing techniques with the help of LLMs. Our system first initiates a web search to retrieve relevant papers by summarizing user-provided abstracts into keywords using an off-the-shelf LLM. Authors can enhance the search by supplementing it with relevant papers or keywords, contributing to a tailored retrieval process. Second, the system re-ranks the retrieved papers based on the user-provided abstract. Finally, the related work section is generated based on the re-ranked results and the abstract. There is a substantial reduction in time and effort for literature review compared to traditional methods, establishing our toolkit as an efficient alternative. Our open-source toolkit is accessible at https://github.com/shubhamagarwal92/LitLLM and Huggingface space (https://huggingface.co/spaces/shubhamagarwal92/LitLLM) with the video demo at https://youtu.be/E2ggOZBAFw0.

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