PaperQA2, Agentic RAG for Science
We're excited to release PaperQA2, an open source RAG library specialized to work with the scientific literature. We've seen some really compelling results with it (https://paper.wikicrow.ai), like superhuman performance at question answering and summarization when compared with expert scientists. PaperQA2 is a major overhaul of our prior PaperQA system, it includes automatically obtained rich metadata for each paper, a CLI to work with local papers directly, a local full-text search engine for keywords searches over PDF files, a state-of-the-art algorithm for LLM-based re-ranking…
PaperQA2, Agentic RAG for Science launched on September 11, 2024 with 8 votes, #1,619 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations - Future-House/paper-qa
In the maker’s words, at launch
We're excited to release PaperQA2, an open source RAG library specialized to work with the scientific literature. We've seen some really compelling results with it (https://paper.wikicrow.ai), like superhuman performance at question answering and summarization when compared with expert scientists. PaperQA2…
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