llm4papers

Read our blog post announcement on the project here.

This is a simple plugin for Overleaf (and, maybe, other editors in the future) that allows you to edit a document with LLMs (Large Language Models) in an intuitive and unintrusive way.

https://github.com/KordingLab/llm4papers/assets/693511/a642c534-50d7-4feb-aa16-d53ab8825279

How to use

Warning: I absolutely cannot overstate how un-production-ready this tool is. Do not use this on important documents! Don't use this on documents you care about. And if you want to use this on something important, don't. Okay. Now I'm de-risked and un-liable. Do whatever you want.

• Clone and install dependencies (poetry install)
• Populate a config.py file with your credentials (see config.example.py)
• Add a new paper to the paper manifest (right now, can be done at startup or manually by editing the papers manifest JSON)
• Run the server from this repository (poetry run python3 llm4papers/service.py)
• Open the paper in Overleaf and edit as you usually would. When you want to invoke the AI assistant, add a comment with the following format: @ai: <command>. For example, the brain is weird. % @ai: formalize this
• The AI assistant will replace lines on which this comment is found with the output of the command.

Technical Overview

This plugin works by cloning the Overleaf git repository and editing files locally in /tmp and then pushing them back to the remote. This is done using the git Python library.

Other document APIs can be added by implementing the PaperRemote protocol in the paper_remote module. For an example, see the OverleafGitPaperRemote class.

Made with 💚 at the Kording Lab