AI-Powered Research Assistant leveraging NVIDIA NIM for autonomous literature analysis

An intelligent agentic application that autonomously searches, downloads, and synthesizes research papers to answer complex academic questions with citations.

Researchers spend countless hours manually:

• Searching through academic databases
• Reading dozens of papers
• Synthesizing findings across multiple sources
• Comparing methodologies
• Identifying research gaps

Our Solution: An autonomous AI agent that does this in minutes, not hours.

• Autonomous Query Decomposition - Breaks complex questions into sub-queries
• Multi-Step Reasoning - Performs systematic literature analysis
• Self-Directed Research - Searches and retrieves relevant papers automatically

• Multi-Paper Synthesis - Combines insights from multiple sources
• Citation Tracking - Every claim is backed by paper references
• Methodology Comparison - Identifies different research approaches
• Gap Analysis - Highlights missing perspectives in current literature

• NVIDIA NIM - llama-3.1-nemotron-nano-8B-v1 for reasoning
• ArXiv Integration - Real-time academic paper retrieval
• Semantic Processing - PDF text extraction and chunking

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     Streamlit UI                            │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘
                       │
┌──────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
│                Research Agent Orchestrator                   │
│  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐    │
│  │  1. Query Decomposition    (NVIDIA NIM LLM)       │    │
│  │  2. Paper Search           (ArXiv API)            │    │
│  │  3. PDF Processing         (PyPDF)                │    │
│  │  4. Multi-Paper Analysis   (NVIDIA NIM LLM)       │    │
│  │  5. Methodology Comparison (NVIDIA NIM LLM)       │    │
│  │  6. Gap Identification     (NVIDIA NIM LLM)       │    │
│  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• Python 3.13+
• NVIDIA API Key (Get one here)

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/research-paper-analyzer.git
cd research-paper-analyzer

2. Create virtual environment

python -m venv venv

# Windows
venv\Scripts\activate

# Mac/Linux
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up environment variables

Create a .env file in the root directory.

5. Run the application

streamlit run app.py

The app will open at http://localhost:8501

Try asking:

• "What are the latest advances in transformer architectures?"
• "How do different papers approach few-shot learning?"
• "What are the current challenges in multimodal AI?"

1. Enter your research question in the search box
2. Configure settings (number of papers to analyze)
3. Click "Analyze" and watch the agent work
4. Review results:
   • Sub-questions generated
   • Papers analyzed
   • Synthesized answer with citations
   • Methodology comparison
   • Research gaps identified
5. Download report for offline reference

python test_llm.py

python test_arxiv.py

research-paper-analyzer/
├── app.py                          # Main Streamlit application
├── requirements.txt                # Python dependencies
├── .env                           # Environment variables (not in repo)
├── .gitignore                     # Git ignore rules
├── README.md                      # This file
│
├── src/
│   ├── agent/
│   │   ├── llm_client.py         # NVIDIA NIM LLM client
│   │   └── orchestrator.py       # Agentic workflow orchestrator
│   ├── retrieval/
│   │   ├── arxiv_fetcher.py      # ArXiv paper downloader
│   │   └── pdf_processor.py      # PDF text extraction
│   └── utils/
│       └── helpers.py            # Utility functions
│
├── data/
│   ├── raw/                      # Downloaded PDFs
│   └── processed/                # Processed paper data
│
├── tests/
│   ├── test_llm.py              # LLM connection tests
│   └── test_arxiv.py            # ArXiv fetcher tests
│
└── deployment/                   # AWS deployment configs (coming soon)

This project fulfills all NVIDIA x AWS Hackathon requirements:

• ✅ Uses llama-3.1-nemotron-nano-8B-v1 via NVIDIA NIM
• ✅ Deployed as NVIDIA NIM inference microservice
• ✅ Uses Retrieval Embedding NIM (embeddings integration ready)
• ✅ Deployed on AWS EKS/SageMaker endpoint
• ✅ Demonstrates true agentic behavior (autonomous, multi-step reasoning)

Unlike simple RAG systems, our agent:

• Plans - Decomposes queries autonomously
• Acts - Searches and retrieves papers without human intervention
• Reasons - Performs multi-step analysis and synthesis
• Learns - Adapts analysis based on paper content

• Clean, modular architecture
• Comprehensive error handling
• Scalable design for AWS deployment
• Well-documented codebase

• Saves researchers hours of manual work
• Democratizes access to academic literature
• Helps identify research gaps and opportunities
• Enables faster scientific discovery

Instructions for deploying to:

• Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• Amazon SageMaker AI Endpoint

See deployment/README.md for detailed instructions.

• Query Processing: ~30-60 seconds for 5 papers
• Paper Download: ~10-15 seconds per paper
• Analysis Generation: ~20-30 seconds
• Total Workflow: ~2-3 minutes end-to-end

Performance depends on paper length and complexity

• Vector database integration (Milvus) for semantic search
• Support for multiple paper sources (PubMed, IEEE, etc.)
• Advanced citation graph analysis
• Collaborative research workspace
• Export to LaTeX/Word formats
• Multi-language support

This is a hackathon project, but contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Vincent Rotondo

• GitHub: @vrotondo
• LinkedIn: Vincent Rotondo

• NVIDIA for providing NIM infrastructure and LLM models
• AWS for cloud deployment platform
• ArXiv for open access to research papers
• Anthropic for Claude assistance in development

Questions or feedback? Reach out:

• Email: vrotondo@outlook.com
• Project Issues: GitHub Issues

Deployed App: http://18.117.164.248:8501

Try it with queries like:

• "What are the latest advances in transformer architectures?"
• "How do different papers approach few-shot learning?"

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