paperai VS txtai

Nice project!

I've spent quite a lot of time in the medical/scientific literature space. With regards to LLMs, specifically RAG, how the data is chunked is quite important. With that, I have a couple projects that might be beneficial additions.

paperetl (https://github.com/neuml/paperetl) - supports parsing arXiv, PubMed and integrates with GROBID to handle parsing metadata and text from arbitrary papers.

paperai (https://github.com/neuml/paperai) - builds embeddings databases of medical/scientific papers. Supports LLM prompting, semantic workflows and vector search. Built with txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).

While arbitrary chunking/splitting can work, I've found that integrating parsing that has knowledge of medical/scientific paper structure increases the overall accuracy and experience of downstream applications.

https://github.com/neuml/paperai

Disclaimer: I am the author of both

paperai | paperetl

action: translate input: txtai executes machine-learning workflows to transform data and build AI-powered semantic search applications. output: txtai exécute des workflows d'apprentissage automatique pour transformer les données et construire des applications de recherche sémantique alimentées par l'IA. action: translate input: Traditional search systems use keywords to find data output: Les systèmes de recherche traditionnels utilisent des mots-clés pour trouver des données action: summary input: https://github.com/neuml/txtai output: txtai executes machine-learning workflows to transform data and build AI-powered semantic search applications. Semantic search applications have an understanding of natural language and identify results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords. API bindings for JavaScript, Java, Rust and Go. Cloud-native architecture scales out with container orchestration systems (e. g. Kubernetes) action: summary input: https://github.com/neuml/paperai output: paperai is an AI-powered literature discovery and review engine for medical/scientific papers. Paperai was used to analyze the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) paperai and NeuML have been recognized in the following articles: Cord-19 Kaggle Challenge Awards Machine-Learning Experts Delve Into 47,000 Papers on Coronavirus Family. real 0m22.478s user 0m13.776s sys 0m3.218s

I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to pad a resume or finish a school project.

For those who do want to do this, I'd recommend writing an issue and/or reaching out to the developers to engage in a dialogue. This takes work but it will increase the likelihood of a PR being merged.

Disclaimer: I'm the primary developer of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai), an open-source vector database + RAG framework

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast.

With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy.

VC funding can have a snowball effect where you need more and more. Then you're in the loop of needing funding rounds to survive. The hope is someday you're acquired or start turning a profit.

I would say both have their pros and cons. Not all ideas have the luxury of time.

I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality.

With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. For me, authenticity and being genuine is most important. I would say that being genuine has been way more of an asset than liability.

I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list.

There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021.

txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.

Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG.

Here's a couple examples:

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai

- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents

Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).