Abstracts Explorer Documentation
Welcome to the documentation for Abstracts Explorer! This package provides tools for downloading, storing, and analyzing NeurIPS conference paper abstracts.
Features
Download NeurIPS abstracts from the official OpenReview API
Plugin system for downloading from workshops and other conferences
Store abstracts in a SQLite database with full metadata
Create vector embeddings for semantic search
Cluster and visualize paper embeddings with multiple algorithms
MCP server for LLM-based cluster analysis and topic exploration
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) chat interface for querying papers
Web interface for browsing and searching papers
Command-line interface for easy interaction
Configuration system with .env file support
Quick Start
Install the package:
# Install uv if you haven't already
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
# Install the package with all dependencies
uv sync --all-extras
Download abstracts for NeurIPS 2025:
uv run abstracts-explorer download --year 2025
Or download from a workshop using plugins:
uv run abstracts-explorer download --plugin ml4ps --year 2025
Create embeddings for semantic search:
uv run abstracts-explorer create-embeddings
Search papers:
uv run abstracts-explorer search "machine learning"
Chat with papers using RAG:
uv run abstracts-explorer chat
Documentation Contents
User Guide
API Reference
Development