Your AI-Powered Research Assistant for Scholars and Students
ChatResearch is an AI-powered desktop application designed to assist early-career research students and exprienced researchers in their academic pursuits. It's currently in its preview version, offering a glimpse into the future of AI-assisted research. You can access this link for more information.
As researchers and students, we often find ourselves asking questions like:
- "What are the recent updates in my research area on arXiv?"
- "What problems were solved at top conferences in my domain like ICML, CVPR, or USENIX Security?"
- "How can I quickly summarize the key findings of this paper?"
- "What are the potential research gaps in my field?"
ChatResearch is designed to answer these questions and more, leveraging the power of AI to provide insights in minutes, not hours.
- AI-Powered Chat: Engage in research discussions with advanced AI models (e.g., GPT-4, LLama, Deepseek).
- Paper Library Management: Organize and manage your research papers efficiently.
- AI-Assisted Paper Analysis: Get quick summaries and insights from papers.
- Arxiv Integration: Stay updated with the latest papers in your field.
- Conference Proceedings Analysis: Quickly understand the key trends from top conferences.
- Research Gap Identification: AI-assisted analysis to help identify potential research opportunities.
- Multi-Language Support: Communicate in your preferred language.
- Cross-Platform Availability: Use on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
I am continuously working to enhance ChatResearch with new features and improvements. Here are some of the exciting updates you can expect in future versions:
- AI Support for New Models: Integration with advanced AI models such as Claude, Gemini, Groq, and Cohence.
- Expanded Paper Collection: Enhanced paper crawler support for Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, and Crossref to provide a more comprehensive paper collection.
Stay tuned for these updates and more as I strive to make ChatResearch the ultimate AI-powered research assistant for scholars and students.
As a researcher, I often found myself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of papers and the rapid pace of advancements in my field. I created ChatResearch to address these challenges, providing a tool that could quickly parse through information, offer insights, and help researchers stay on top of their fields more efficiently.
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You can download ChatResearch from the official GitHub releases page.
- Download the *-win.exe file from the releases page.
- Run the downloaded file to proceed with the setup.
- For M1, M2, and other Apple Silicon Macs, download the arm64.dmg file.
- For Intel-based Macs, download the regular .dmg file.
- When opening the application for the first time, macOS may show a security warning about installing third-party software. To allow installation, follow the instructions in this blog post.
- Debian-based Distributions: Download the .deb file from the releases page.
- Other Distributions: Download the .AppImage file from the releases page.
All chat history, settings and paper library data are saved locally on your computer.
I welcome contributions of all forms:
- Submit Issues: Report bugs or suggest features.
- Pull Requests: Contribute code or documentation improvements.
- Feature Requests: Share ideas for new features.
- Documentation: Help improve or translate our docs.
- Testing: Help test new features and report your findings.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/yueyueL/ResearchChat.git -
Install dependencies:
npm install -
Run in development mode:
npm run dev -
Build for your platform:
npm run package -
Build for all platforms:
npm run package:all
ChatResearch is built upon the foundation laid by Chatbox. We're grateful for their open-source contribution which has made this project possible.
For any queries or suggestions, please reach out to Knox.
ChatResearch: Empowering your research journey with AI.