Auto-Research

A no-code utility to generate a detailed well-cited survey with topic clustered sections (draft paper format) and other interesting artifacts from a single research query.

Requires:

• python 3.7 or above
• poppler-utils
• list of requirements in requirements.txt
• 8GB disk space
• 13GB CUDA(GPU) memory - for a survey of 100 searched papers(max_search) and 25 selected papers(num_papers)

Steps to run (pip coming soon):

apt install -y poppler-utils libpoppler-cpp-dev
git clone https://github.com/sidphbot/Auto-Research.git

cd Auto-Research/
pip install -r requirements.txt
python Surveyor.py [options] <your_research_query>

Artifacts generated (zipped):

• Detailed survey draft paper as txt file
• A curated list of top 25+ papers as pdfs and txts
• Images extracted from above papers as jpegs, bmps etc
• Heading/Section wise highlights extracted from above papers as a re-usable pure python joblib dump
• Tables extracted from papers(optional)
• Corpus of metadata highlights/text of top 100 papers as a re-usable pure python joblib dump

Example run #1 - python utility

python src/Surveyor.py 'multi-task representation learning'

Example run #2 - python class

from Surveyor import Surveyor
mysurveyor = Surveyor()
mysurveyor.survey('quantum entanglement')

Access/Modify defaults:

• inside code

from Surveyor import DEFAULTS
from pprint import pprint

pprint(DEFAULTS)

or,

• Modify static config file - defaults.py

or,

• At runtime (utility)

python src/Surveyor.py --help

usage: Surveyor.py [-h] [--max_search max_metadata_papers]
                   [--num_papers max_num_papers] [--pdf_dir pdf_dir]
                   [--txt_dir txt_dir] [--img_dir img_dir] [--tab_dir tab_dir]
                   [--dump_dir dump_dir] [--models_dir save_models_dir]
                   [--title_model_name title_model_name]
                   [--ex_summ_model_name extractive_summ_model_name]
                   [--ledmodel_name ledmodel_name]
                   [--embedder_name sentence_embedder_name]
                   [--nlp_name spacy_model_name]
                   [--similarity_nlp_name similarity_nlp_name]
                   [--kw_model_name kw_model_name]
                   [--refresh_models refresh_models] [--high_gpu high_gpu]
                   query_string

Generate a survey just from a query !!

positional arguments:
  query_string          your research query/keywords

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --max_search max_metadata_papers
                        maximium number of papers to gaze at - defaults to 100
  --num_papers max_num_papers
                        maximium number of papers to download and analyse -
                        defaults to 25
  --pdf_dir pdf_dir     pdf paper storage directory - defaults to
                        arxiv_data/tarpdfs/
  --txt_dir txt_dir     text-converted paper storage directory - defaults to
                        arxiv_data/fulltext/
  --img_dir img_dir     image storage directory - defaults to
                        arxiv_data/images/
  --tab_dir tab_dir     tables storage directory - defaults to
                        arxiv_data/tables/
  --dump_dir dump_dir   all_output_dir - defaults to arxiv_dumps/
  --models_dir save_models_dir
                        directory to save models (> 5GB) - defaults to
                        saved_models/
  --title_model_name title_model_name
                        title model name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to
                        'Callidior/bert2bert-base-arxiv-titlegen'
  --ex_summ_model_name extractive_summ_model_name
                        extractive summary model name/tag in hugging-face,
                        defaults to 'allenai/scibert_scivocab_uncased'
  --ledmodel_name ledmodel_name
                        led model(for abstractive summary) name/tag in
                        hugging-face, defaults to 'allenai/led-
                        large-16384-arxiv'
  --embedder_name sentence_embedder_name
                        sentence embedder name/tag in hugging-face, defaults
                        to 'paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2'
  --nlp_name spacy_model_name
                        spacy model name/tag in hugging-face (if changed -
                        needs to be spacy-installed prior), defaults to
                        'en_core_sci_scibert'
  --similarity_nlp_name similarity_nlp_name
                        spacy downstream model(for similarity) name/tag in
                        hugging-face (if changed - needs to be spacy-installed
                        prior), defaults to 'en_core_sci_lg'
  --kw_model_name kw_model_name
                        keyword extraction model name/tag in hugging-face,
                        defaults to 'distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens'
  --refresh_models refresh_models
                        Refresh model downloads with given names (needs
                        atleast one model name param above), defaults to False
  --high_gpu high_gpu   High GPU usage permitted, defaults to False

• At runtime (code)

  during surveyor object initialization with surveyor_obj = Surveyor()

  • pdf_dir: String, pdf paper storage directory - defaults to arxiv_data/tarpdfs/
  • txt_dir: String, text-converted paper storage directory - defaults to arxiv_data/fulltext/
  • img_dir: String, image image storage directory - defaults to arxiv_data/images/
  • tab_dir: String, tables storage directory - defaults to arxiv_data/tables/
  • dump_dir: String, all_output_dir - defaults to arxiv_dumps/
  • models_dir: String, directory to save to huge models, defaults to saved_models/
  • title_model_name: String, title model name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to Callidior/bert2bert-base-arxiv-titlegen
  • ex_summ_model_name: String, extractive summary model name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to allenai/scibert_scivocab_uncased
  • ledmodel_name: String, led model(for abstractive summary) name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to allenai/led-large-16384-arxiv
  • embedder_name: String, sentence embedder name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2
  • nlp_name: String, spacy model name/tag in hugging-face (if changed - needs to be spacy-installed prior), defaults to en_core_sci_scibert
  • similarity_nlp_name: String, spacy downstream trained model(for similarity) name/tag in hugging-face (if changed - needs to be spacy-installed prior), defaults to en_core_sci_lg
  • kw_model_name: String, keyword extraction model name/tag in hugging-face, defaults to distilbert-base-nli-mean-tokens
  • high_gpu: Bool, High GPU usage permitted, defaults to False
  • refresh_models: Bool, Refresh model downloads with given names (needs atleast one model name param above), defaults to False

  during survey generation with surveyor_obj.survey(query="my_research_query")

  • max_search: int maximium number of papers to gaze at - defaults to 100
  • num_papers: int maximium number of papers to download and analyse - defaults to 25