PaperMatch
Languages and libraries
semantic paper search
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How HN took it
16 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 45 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 9 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Semantic results are useful for discovering related papers
From 2 comments
This is great! I just tried some queries and the results were pretty decent, in terms of semantics. But, just thinking of it as a user, if this were to be part of my daily…
curious_cat_163 on HNAll benefits depend on the ability of the embedding model. Semantic embeddings understand nuances, so they can match abstracts that align conceptually even if no exact keywords…
Quizzical4230 on HN
Useful companion to bioRxiv and medRxiv versions
From 1 comment
This looks great! I have used the biorXiv version of papermatch and it gives pretty good results!
madbutcode on HN
Objections
Searches for specific terms like leaky relu return irrelevant results
From 2 comments
Feedback: first thing I tried is searching for "leaky relu" and I got a bunch of results related to fluids, which is... not very relevant. (: Compare that to scholar which…
kouteiheika on HNThis seems like a cool idea, thanks for creating it! Some feedback: I tried searching for "wave function collapse algorithm", "gumin wave function collapse", "wfc" and "model…
zzyzek on HN
Author search does not work
From 1 comment
I tried a simple search by author and it didn’t work. All the fancy stuff is great, but I’d expect the basics still work, in the end it’s a search engine for papers.
serial_dev on HN
Cloudflare challenge screen is a barrier
From 1 comment
> The Cloudflare challenge screen at the beginning is a dealbreaker. I understand your concern, however, I do not have the know-how to properly combat bots that keep spamming the…
Quizzical4230 on HN
Binary embeddings reduce recall beyond top 10 results
From 2 comments
That looks great for speed, but what about recall?
binarymax on HNThat's has a major downgrade. For binary embeddings, the top 10 results are same as fp32, albeit shuffled. However after the 10th result, I think quality degrades quite a bit. I…
Quizzical4230 on HN
Requests
Date or recency filter
From 2 comments
I couuld and really use this, but it didn't work for me. And HAS to have a date filter. That is a must maybe with some time based pre-option defaults like HackerNews. Good luck,…
ProofHouse on HN1. why mixbread's model? 2. how much efficiency gain did you see binarising embeddings/using hamming distance? 3. why milvus over other vector stores? 4. did you automate the…
swyx on HN
Keyword and quoted-phrase search
From 1 comment
Exactly. Full text paradigm has it's own pros and I believe we need those tools in the new vector search to take full advantage. I am planning to add keywords feature where if a…
Quizzical4230 on HN
Similar papers link on each result
From 1 comment
Very cool! Add a "similar papers" link to each paper, that will make this the obvious way to discover topics by clicking along the similar papers.
Maro on HN
Fix LaTeX rendering in abstracts
From 1 comment
interesting project; I’m not really sure how useful it is for field-specific stuff—I'm searching for “image reduction astronomy”, and it shows all sorts of related but not…
venice_benice on HN
Questions
Why binarised embeddings and Hamming distance
From 2 comments
Nice work. Any other technical comments, why did you use those embeddings, did you binarzue them, did you use any dpecial prompts?
antman on HNDid you notice a difference in performance after binarization? Do you have a way to measure performance?
andai on HN
How search quality is evaluated
From 1 comment
It sounds nice. How do you evaluate the performance of your way against usual embedding?
higty on HN
Alternatives named
Semantic Scholar
From 1 comment
Is this similar to https://www.semanticscholar.org (from Allen Institute for AI) ?
shigeru94 on HN
Google Scholar
From 1 comment
Feedback: first thing I tried is searching for "leaky relu" and I got a bunch of results related to fluids, which is... not very relevant. (: Compare that to scholar which…
kouteiheika on HN
Research Rabbit
From 1 comment
This looks great, thanks for building this. Something on similar lines which many may link, Research Rabbit - https://www.researchrabbit.ai/
zerop on HN
Elicit, Undermind, scite
From 1 comment
I enjoy seeing projects like this! If you expand beyond arxiv, keep in mind since coverage matters for lit reviews, unfortunately the big publishers (Elsevier and Springer) are…
shishy on HN