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README.md

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+---
+title: Paper2Lab
+emoji: 🧪
+colorFrom: purple
+colorTo: blue
+sdk: gradio
+app_file: app.py
+---
+
+# Paper2Lab
+
+Turn research papers into actionable lab plans.
+
+Paper2Lab is an AI research assistant that transforms scientific papers into:
+
+- Structured paper cards
+- Evidence-grounded summaries
+- Dataset and model extraction
+- Reproducibility assessment
+- Experiment roadmaps
+- Lab starter kits
+- Interactive question answering
+- Exportable JSON and Markdown reports
+
+## Features
+
+- PDF paper ingestion
+- Structured paper understanding
+- Evidence grounding
+- Reproducibility analysis
+- Lab readiness assessment
+- Ask-the-paper interface
+- Export to JSON and Markdown
+
+## Usage
+
+1. Upload a PDF paper
+2. Select refinement mode
+3. Click **Analyze Paper**
+4. Explore:
+   - Paper Summary
+   - Evidence Viewer
+   - Ask the Paper
+   - Advanced Analysis
+   - Lab Starter Kit
+   - Export
+
+Built for researchers, students, engineers, and hackathon teams.

README_HF.md

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+---
+title: Paper2Lab
+emoji: 🧪
+colorFrom: purple
+colorTo: blue
+sdk: gradio
+app_file: app.py
+---
+
+# Paper2Lab
+
+Turn research papers into actionable lab plans.
+
+Paper2Lab is an AI research assistant that transforms scientific papers into:
+
+- Structured paper cards
+- Evidence-grounded summaries
+- Dataset and model extraction
+- Reproducibility assessment
+- Experiment roadmaps
+- Lab starter kits
+- Interactive question answering
+- Exportable JSON and Markdown reports
+
+## Features
+
+- PDF paper ingestion
+- Structured paper understanding
+- Evidence grounding
+- Reproducibility analysis
+- Lab readiness assessment
+- Ask-the-paper interface
+- Export to JSON and Markdown
+
+## Usage
+
+1. Upload a PDF paper
+2. Select refinement mode
+3. Click **Analyze Paper**
+4. Explore:
+   - Paper Summary
+   - Evidence Viewer
+   - Ask the Paper
+   - Advanced Analysis
+   - Lab Starter Kit
+   - Export
+
+Built for researchers, students, engineers, and hackathon teams.

app.py

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+import json
+import tempfile
+import html
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import gradio as gr
+
+try:
+    from paper2lab.inference.pipeline import PaperPipeline
+except Exception:
+    PaperPipeline = None
+
+try:
+    from paper2lab.rag.qa import answer_from_pipeline_result
+except Exception:
+    answer_from_pipeline_result = None
+
+
+APP_NAME = "Paper2Lab"
+
+
+def pretty_json(data):
+    return json.dumps(data or {}, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
+
+
+def as_list(value):
+    if not value:
+        return []
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        return value
+    return [value]
+
+
+def bullet_list(items, empty="_Not found._"):
+    items = as_list(items)
+    if not items:
+        return empty
+    return "\n".join(f"- {x}" for x in items)
+
+
+def clean_display_text(text, max_len=95):
+    text = str(text or "").replace("\n", " ").strip()
+    while "  " in text:
+        text = text.replace("  ", " ")
+    if len(text) > max_len:
+        return text[:max_len].rstrip() + "..."
+    return text
+
+
+def chip_list(items, empty="Not found"):
+    items = as_list(items)
+    if not items:
+        return f"<span class='muted'>{empty}</span>"
+
+    html = ""
+    for x in items[:6]:
+        clean = clean_display_text(x, max_len=70)
+        html += f"<span class='chip' title='{str(x)}'>{clean}</span>"
+    return html
+
+
+def get_card(result):
+    return result.get("paper_card_final") or result.get("paper_card") or result
+
+
+def quality_warnings(card):
+    warnings = []
+
+    rq = card.get("research_question", "")
+    if rq and ("BERTis" in rq or len(rq.split()) < 5):
+        warnings.append("Research question may contain PDF spacing noise.")
+
+    datasets = as_list(card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"))
+    if any(len(str(x)) > 220 for x in datasets):
+        warnings.append("Dataset extraction contains long noisy candidates.")
+
+    for field in ["contributions", "key_findings", "limitations"]:
+        if not card.get(field):
+            warnings.append(f"{field} is empty.")
+
+    return warnings
+
+
+def build_quick_summary_html(result):
+    card = get_card(result)
+    warnings = quality_warnings(card)
+
+    status = "Ready"
+    if result:
+        status = f"{max(0, 6 - len(warnings))} / 6 fields complete"
+
+    return f"""
+    <div class="summary-card">
+      <div class="card-head">
+        <div><span class="icon">📄</span><b>Quick summary</b></div>
+        <span class="status-pill">{status}</span>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="summary-row">
+        <div class="label">Title</div>
+        <div class="value">{card.get("title", "Untitled paper")}</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="summary-row">
+        <div class="label">Research question</div>
+        <div class="value">{card.get("research_question", "Not found")}</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="summary-row">
+        <div class="label">Datasets</div>
+        <div class="value">{chip_list(card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"))}</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="summary-row">
+        <div class="label">Models</div>
+        <div class="value">{chip_list(card.get("models_or_methods"))}</div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="summary-row">
+        <div class="label">Key findings</div>
+        <div class="value highlight">{bullet_list(card.get("key_findings")).replace("- ", "• ")}</div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    """
+
+
+def build_paper_summary_md(result):
+    card = get_card(result)
+    warnings = quality_warnings(card)
+
+    warning_md = ""
+    if warnings:
+        warning_md = "## ⚠️ Extraction Quality Warnings\n" + "\n".join(f"- {w}" for w in warnings)
+
+    return f"""
+# Structured Paper Summary
+
+**Title:** {card.get("title", "Untitled paper")}  
+**Field:** {card.get("field", "Unknown")}
+
+{warning_md}
+
+## Research Question
+{card.get("research_question", "_Not found._")}
+
+## Contributions
+{bullet_list(card.get("contributions"))}
+
+## Methodology
+{bullet_list(card.get("methodology"))}
+
+## Datasets / Data Sources
+{bullet_list(card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"))}
+
+## Models / Methods
+{bullet_list(card.get("models_or_methods"))}
+
+## Metrics / Measurements
+{bullet_list(card.get("metrics_or_measurements"))}
+
+## Key Findings
+{bullet_list(card.get("key_findings"))}
+
+## Limitations
+{bullet_list(card.get("limitations"))}
+"""
+
+
+def build_lab_md(result):
+    card = get_card(result)
+    kit = card.get("lab_starter_kit") or result.get("lab_starter_kit") or {}
+
+    return f"""
+# Lab Starter Kit
+
+**Starter type:** `{kit.get("starter_type", card.get("paper_type", "unknown"))}`
+
+## Project Structure
+{bullet_list(kit.get("project_structure"))}
+
+## Requirements
+{bullet_list(kit.get("requirements_txt"))}
+
+## Dataset Plan
+{bullet_list(kit.get("dataset_plan") or kit.get("required_data"))}
+
+## Suggested Experiments
+{bullet_list(kit.get("suggested_experiments") or kit.get("experiment_checklist"))}
+
+## Evaluation Plan
+{bullet_list(kit.get("evaluation_plan"))}
+
+## Reproducibility Risks
+{bullet_list(kit.get("reproducibility_risks") or card.get("missing_reproducibility_info"))}
+"""
+
+
+def build_evidence_md(result):
+    figs = result.get("figures_and_tables", [])
+    card = get_card(result)
+
+    lines = ["# Evidence Viewer"]
+
+    if figs:
+        lines.append("## Figures and Tables")
+        for item in figs[:12]:
+            lines.append(
+                f"- **{item.get('label', 'Item')}** — page {item.get('page_number', '?')}: "
+                f"{item.get('summary', 'No summary')}"
+            )
+
+    lines.append("\n## Extracted Evidence Fields")
+    for field in [
+        "methodology",
+        "datasets_or_data_sources",
+        "models_or_methods",
+        "metrics_or_measurements",
+        "key_findings",
+    ]:
+        lines.append(f"\n### {field}")
+        lines.append(bullet_list(card.get(field)))
+
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def build_advanced_md(result):
+    card = get_card(result)
+
+    metadata = card.get("metadata", {}) if isinstance(card, dict) else {}
+    if not isinstance(metadata, dict):
+        metadata = {}
+
+    quality = metadata.get("quality", {})
+    if not isinstance(quality, dict):
+        quality = {}
+
+    repro = card.get("reproducibility_score", {}) if isinstance(card, dict) else {}
+    if not isinstance(repro, dict):
+        repro = {}
+
+    selection = result.get("auto_selection", {}).get("selection_report", {})
+    if not isinstance(selection, dict):
+        selection = {}
+
+    md = []
+    md.append("# ⚙️ Advanced Analysis")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("## Extraction Quality")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("| Metric | Value |")
+    md.append("|---|---|")
+    md.append(f"| Quality Score | {quality.get('quality_score', 'N/A')} |")
+    md.append(f"| Sections Found | {quality.get('num_sections', 'N/A')} |")
+    md.append(f"| References Found | {quality.get('num_references', metadata.get('references_count', 'N/A'))} |")
+    md.append(f"| Tables Found | {quality.get('num_tables', 'N/A')} |")
+    md.append(f"| Captions Found | {quality.get('num_captions', 'N/A')} |")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("---")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append(f"**Reproducibility Level:** {repro.get('level', 'unknown')}")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append(f"**Score:** {repro.get('score', 'N/A')}")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("### Detected Items")
+    md.append(bullet_list(repro.get("detected_items")))
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("### Missing Items")
+    md.append(bullet_list(repro.get("missing_items")))
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("---")
+    md.append("")
+    md.append("## Selection Report")
+
+    if selection.get("fields"):
+      md.append("Field-level local vs Nemotron selection was completed.")
+      md.append("")
+      md.append("```json")
+      md.append(pretty_json(selection))
+      md.append("```")
+    else:
+      md.append(
+        "No field-level comparison available for this paper. "
+        "The final card was generated from the best available extraction pipeline."
+      )
+
+    return "\n".join(md)
+
+
+def safe_html(value):
+    return html.escape(str(value or ""), quote=True)
+
+
+def short_card_text(value, max_len=48):
+    text = clean_display_text(value, max_len=max_len)
+    return safe_html(text)
+
+
+def build_lab_cards_html(result):
+    card = get_card(result)
+    kit = card.get("lab_starter_kit") or result.get("lab_starter_kit") or {}
+
+    reqs = as_list(kit.get("requirements_txt"))
+    risks = as_list(
+        kit.get("reproducibility_risks")
+        or card.get("missing_reproducibility_info")
+    )
+    experiments = as_list(
+        kit.get("suggested_experiments")
+        or kit.get("experiment_checklist")
+    )
+
+    starter_type = kit.get("starter_type", card.get("paper_type", "unknown"))
+    tools = ", ".join(clean_display_text(x, max_len=28) for x in reqs[:3]) if reqs else "Not found"
+
+    return f"""
+    <div class="lab-board">
+      <div class="lab-board-header">
+        <span class="lab-emoji">🧪</span>
+        <span>Lab readiness</span>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="lab-grid-2">
+        <div class="lab-tile lab-green">
+          <span>Starter type</span>
+          <b>{short_card_text(starter_type)}</b>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="lab-tile lab-dark">
+          <span>Tools</span>
+          <b>{short_card_text(tools, max_len=58)}</b>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="lab-tile lab-purple">
+          <span>Experiments</span>
+          <b>{len(experiments)} detected</b>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="lab-tile lab-red">
+          <span>Risks</span>
+          <b>{len(risks)} issues</b>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    """
+
+def analyze_paper(pdf_file, refinement_mode):
+    if pdf_file is None:
+        raise gr.Error("Please upload a PDF first.")
+
+    if PaperPipeline is None:
+        raise gr.Error("PaperPipeline import failed. Run from the project root or install your package.")
+
+    pdf_path = pdf_file if isinstance(pdf_file, str) else pdf_file.name
+
+    pipeline = PaperPipeline(refinement_mode=refinement_mode)
+    result = pipeline.run(pdf_path)
+    print("PDF PATH:", pdf_path)
+    print("MODE:", refinement_mode)
+    print("FINAL DATASETS:", result.get("paper_card_final", {}).get("datasets_or_data_sources"))
+    print("GET_CARD DATASETS:", get_card(result).get("datasets_or_data_sources"))
+
+    card = get_card(result)
+
+    if not card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"):
+      roadmap = card.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+      kit = card.get("lab_starter_kit") or {}
+
+      fallback_datasets = []
+
+      if isinstance(roadmap, dict):
+          fallback_datasets += roadmap.get("datasets") or []
+
+      if isinstance(kit, dict):
+          fallback_datasets += kit.get("dataset_plan") or []
+
+      if fallback_datasets:
+          card["datasets_or_data_sources"] = list(dict.fromkeys(fallback_datasets))
+          result["paper_card_final"] = card
+
+    paper_md = build_paper_summary_md(result)
+    lab_md = build_lab_md(result)
+    evidence_md = build_evidence_md(result)
+    advanced_md = build_advanced_md(result)
+    quick_html = build_quick_summary_html(result)
+    lab_cards = build_lab_cards_html(result)
+
+    tmp = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp())
+    json_path = tmp / "paper2lab_output.json"
+    md_path = tmp / "paper2lab_report.md"
+
+    json_path.write_text(pretty_json(result), encoding="utf-8")
+    md_path.write_text(paper_md + "\n\n---\n\n" + lab_md, encoding="utf-8")
+
+    return (
+        result,
+        quick_html,
+        paper_md,
+        lab_md,
+        evidence_md,
+        advanced_md,
+        lab_cards,
+        card,
+        str(json_path),
+        str(md_path),
+    )
+
+def ask_paper_question(result, question):
+    if not result:
+        return "⚠️ Analyze a paper first.", {}
+
+    if not question or not str(question).strip():
+        return "⚠️ Please enter a question.", {}
+
+    question_text = str(question).strip()
+    q = question_text.lower()
+
+    card = get_card(result)
+
+    def md_items(title, items):
+        items = as_list(items)
+        items = [x for x in items if str(x).strip()]
+        if not items:
+            return f"**{title}:**\n\n_Not found in the structured paper card._"
+
+        return f"**{title}:**\n\n" + "\n".join(f"- {x}" for x in items[:8])
+
+    # Fast structured answers for demo-critical questions
+    if any(k in q for k in ["dataset", "data source", "corpus", "benchmark"]):
+        return md_items("Datasets / data sources", card.get("datasets_or_data_sources")), {
+            "source": "structured_card",
+            "field": "datasets_or_data_sources",
+        }
+
+    if any(k in q for k in ["model", "architecture", "proposed"]):
+
+      rq = card.get("research_question", "")
+
+      if rq:
+          return (
+              f"**Proposed model:**\n\n- {rq}",
+            {
+                "source": "structured_card",
+                "field": "research_question",
+            },
+        )
+
+    if any(k in q for k in ["finding", "result", "conclusion", "contribution"]):
+        return md_items("Key findings", card.get("key_findings") or card.get("contributions")), {
+            "source": "structured_card",
+            "field": "key_findings",
+        }
+
+    if any(k in q for k in ["metric", "score", "performance", "evaluation"]):
+        return md_items("Metrics / measurements", card.get("metrics_or_measurements")), {
+            "source": "structured_card",
+            "field": "metrics_or_measurements",
+        }
+
+    if any(k in q for k in ["limitation", "risk", "missing"]):
+        return md_items("Limitations / reproducibility risks", card.get("limitations")), {
+            "source": "structured_card",
+            "field": "limitations",
+        }
+
+    if any(k in q for k in ["reproduce", "reproduction", "roadmap", "steps"]):
+        roadmap = card.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+        steps = []
+        if isinstance(roadmap, dict):
+            steps = roadmap.get("experimental_steps") or roadmap.get("missing_for_reproduction") or []
+        return md_items("Reproduction roadmap", steps), {
+            "source": "structured_card",
+            "field": "reproduction_roadmap",
+        }
+
+    if answer_from_pipeline_result is None:
+        return (
+            "⚠️ RAG module import failed. Check that `paper2lab.rag.qa` is available "
+            "and dependencies are installed.",
+            {},
+        )
+
+    try:
+        qa = answer_from_pipeline_result(
+            pipeline_result=result,
+            question=question_text,
+            top_k=5,
+            embedder_backend="local",
+        )
+
+        answer = qa.get("answer", "No answer found.")
+        evidence = qa.get("evidence", [])
+
+        evidence_md = "\n\n## Evidence\n"
+        for i, ev in enumerate(evidence, 1):
+            page = ev.get("page_start") or ev.get("page_number") or "?"
+            title = ev.get("title", "Evidence")
+            text = ev.get("text", "")
+            evidence_md += f"\n**{i}. {title} — page {page}**\n\n> {text[:700]}\n"
+
+        return answer + evidence_md, qa
+
+    except Exception as exc:
+        return f"❌ RAG error: {exc}", {}
+
+
+CSS = """
+/* ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+   Paper2Lab UI — fixed layout
+   Fixes:
+   - no duplicate upload holder/native file input
+   - wider hero with Paper2Lab title
+   - clean 2-column app layout
+   - lab card placed under Quick Summary
+───────────────────────────────────────────── */
+
+body,
+.gradio-container {
+  background: #eef2f7 !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+* {
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+}
+
+footer {
+  display: none !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container {
+  max-width: none !important;
+  padding-top: 28px !important;
+}
+
+/* Main page width */
+.app-shell {
+  width: min(1220px, 94vw);
+  margin: 0 auto;
+}
+
+/* Remove unwanted Gradio block styling only inside our custom layout */
+.top-layout .block,
+.top-layout .gr-group,
+.top-layout .gr-box,
+.top-layout .gr-panel,
+.result-stack .block,
+.result-stack .gr-group,
+.result-stack .gr-box,
+.result-stack .gr-panel {
+  background: transparent !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  box-shadow: none !important;
+  padding: 0 !important;
+  margin: 0 !important;
+  overflow: visible !important;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── HERO ───────────────── */
+
+.hero {
+  position: relative;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  min-height: 245px;
+  border-radius: 24px;
+  padding: 34px 48px;
+  margin: 0 auto 28px;
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0f172a 0%, #18253f 48%, #252659 100%);
+  border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.08);
+  box-shadow: 0 22px 60px rgba(15,23,42,.18);
+}
+
+.hero::before {
+  content: "";
+  position: absolute;
+  inset: 0;
+  background:
+    radial-gradient(circle at 15% 25%, rgba(34,211,238,.14), transparent 30%),
+    radial-gradient(circle at 78% 26%, rgba(124,58,237,.22), transparent 35%);
+  pointer-events: none;
+}
+
+.hero-content {
+  position: relative;
+  z-index: 2;
+  max-width: 920px;
+}
+
+.logo-row {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 10px;
+  margin-bottom: 14px;
+}
+
+.logo-mark {
+  width: 32px;
+  height: 32px;
+  display: inline-grid;
+  place-items: center;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  background: rgba(103,232,249,.14);
+  border: 1px solid rgba(103,232,249,.22);
+  font-size: 18px;
+}
+
+.logo-text {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-size: 18px;
+  font-weight: 950;
+  letter-spacing: -0.035em;
+}
+
+.kicker {
+  color: #67e8f9 !important;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  letter-spacing: .16em;
+  font-size: 11px;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  margin-bottom: 8px;
+}
+
+.hero h1 {
+  max-width: 960px;
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-size: 38px;
+  line-height: 1.05;
+  letter-spacing: -0.052em;
+  margin: 0 0 14px;
+}
+
+.hero h1 span {
+  color: #a78bfa !important;
+}
+
+.hero p {
+  max-width: 760px;
+  color: rgba(255,255,255,.86) !important;
+  font-size: 15px;
+  line-height: 1.62;
+  margin: 0 0 22px;
+}
+
+.hero-badges {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  gap: 10px;
+}
+
+.hero-badge {
+  padding: 8px 13px;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  background: rgba(255,255,255,.12);
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-weight: 850;
+  font-size: 12px;
+  border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.18);
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── TWO COLUMN LAYOUT ───────────────── */
+
+.top-layout {
+  display: grid !important;
+  grid-template-columns: 340px minmax(0, 1fr) !important;
+  gap: 28px !important;
+  align-items: start !important;
+}
+
+.control-stack {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 1px solid #e2e8f0 !important;
+  border-radius: 24px !important;
+  padding: 24px !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 14px 38px rgba(15,23,42,.06) !important;
+  display: flex !important;
+  flex-direction: column !important;
+  gap: 18px !important;
+}
+
+.result-stack {
+  display: flex !important;
+  flex-direction: column !important;
+  gap: 26px !important;
+  background: transparent !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  padding: 0 !important;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── LEFT PANEL ───────────────── */
+
+.panel-title {
+  font-size: 16px;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  margin: 0;
+  padding-bottom: 10px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f5f9;
+}
+
+/* Button */
+.gradio-container button.primary,
+.gradio-container button[class*="primary"] {
+  width: 100% !important;
+  min-height: 50px !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  border-radius: 15px !important;
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7c3aed 0%, #4f46e5 100%) !important;
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-weight: 950 !important;
+  font-size: 15px !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 12px 26px rgba(124,58,237,.28) !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container button.primary *,
+.gradio-container button[class*="primary"] * {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+}
+
+.tip-box {
+  padding: 12px 14px;
+  border-radius: 14px;
+  background: #fafbff;
+  border: 1px solid #e5e7eb;
+  color: #4b5563 !important;
+  font-size: 12px;
+  font-weight: 750;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── QUICK SUMMARY ───────────────── */
+
+.summary-card {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 1px solid #e2e8f0 !important;
+  border-radius: 22px !important;
+  overflow: hidden !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 14px 38px rgba(15,23,42,.06) !important;
+}
+
+.card-head {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: space-between;
+  padding: 17px 22px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #f1f5f9;
+}
+
+.card-head b {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  font-size: 16px;
+}
+
+.icon {
+  display: inline-grid;
+  place-items: center;
+  width: 28px;
+  height: 28px;
+  margin-right: 9px;
+  border-radius: 9px;
+  background: #ede9fe;
+  font-size: 15px;
+}
+
+.status-pill {
+  background: #dcfce7;
+  color: #047857 !important;
+  padding: 6px 13px;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.summary-row {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: 140px minmax(0, 1fr);
+  gap: 16px;
+  padding: 15px 22px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #f8fafc;
+  font-size: 14px;
+}
+
+.label {
+  color: #6b7280 !important;
+  font-weight: 850;
+}
+
+.value {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  line-height: 1.55;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+}
+
+.highlight {
+  background: #f5f3ff;
+  border-left: 3px solid #7c3aed;
+  border-radius: 0 10px 10px 0;
+  padding: 10px 12px;
+  color: #312e81 !important;
+}
+
+.chip {
+  display: inline-block;
+  margin: 3px 5px 3px 0;
+  padding: 6px 10px;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  background: #ede9fe;
+  color: #4c1d95 !important;
+  border: 1px solid #c4b5fd;
+  font-weight: 800;
+  font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.muted {
+  color: #9ca3af !important;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── LAB READINESS ───────────────── */
+
+.lab-board {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 1px solid #e2e8f0 !important;
+  border-radius: 22px !important;
+  padding: 18px !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 14px 38px rgba(15,23,42,.06) !important;
+}
+
+.lab-board-header {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 12px;
+  background: #f8f9fc;
+  border: 1px solid #ebebf0;
+  border-radius: 14px;
+  padding: 14px 18px;
+  margin-bottom: 16px;
+  color: #0f172a !important;
+  font-size: 18px;
+  font-weight: 950;
+  letter-spacing: -0.03em;
+}
+
+.lab-board-header * {
+  color: #0f172a !important;
+}
+
+.lab-emoji {
+  font-size: 22px;
+  line-height: 1;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+}
+
+.lab-grid-2 {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));
+  gap: 14px;
+}
+
+.lab-tile {
+  min-height: 108px;
+  padding: 18px 20px;
+  border-radius: 16px;
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.lab-tile span {
+  display: block;
+  margin-bottom: 10px;
+  font-size: 12px;
+  line-height: 1.2;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  letter-spacing: .04em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+}
+
+.lab-tile b {
+  display: block;
+  font-size: 23px;
+  line-height: 1.15;
+  font-weight: 950;
+  letter-spacing: -0.035em;
+  overflow-wrap: break-word;
+}
+
+.lab-green {
+  background: #ecfdf5 !important;
+  color: #065f46 !important;
+  border-color: #a7f3d0 !important;
+}
+
+.lab-dark {
+  background:
+    radial-gradient(circle at 84% 18%, rgba(124,58,237,.28), transparent 36%),
+    #1e1b4b !important;
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  border-color: #3730a3 !important;
+}
+
+.lab-purple {
+  background: #f5f3ff !important;
+  color: #4c1d95 !important;
+  border-color: #ddd6fe !important;
+}
+
+.lab-red {
+  background: #fff1f2 !important;
+  color: #9f1239 !important;
+  border-color: #fecdd3 !important;
+}
+
+.lab-green *,
+.lab-dark *,
+.lab-purple *,
+.lab-red * {
+  color: inherit !important;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── TABS ───────────────── */
+
+.tabs-shell {
+  margin-top: 28px;
+}
+
+.gradio-container .tab-nav {
+  gap: 6px !important;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #cbd5e1 !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button {
+  font-size: 14px !important;
+  font-weight: 750 !important;
+  color: #6b7280 !important;
+  padding: 11px 18px !important;
+  background: transparent !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  border-bottom: 3px solid transparent !important;
+  white-space: nowrap !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button.selected {
+  color: #6d28d9 !important;
+  border-bottom-color: #7c3aed !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container .tabs > .block,
+.gradio-container .tabitem {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 1px solid #e2e8f0 !important;
+  border-radius: 18px !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgba(15,23,42,.04) !important;
+  overflow: hidden !important;
+}
+
+/* General text */
+.gradio-container .markdown,
+.gradio-container p,
+.gradio-container li,
+.gradio-container td,
+.gradio-container th,
+.gradio-container label,
+.gradio-container textarea,
+.gradio-container input {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* ───────────────── RESPONSIVE ───────────────── */
+
+@media (max-width: 900px) {
+  .app-shell {
+    width: min(94vw, 760px);
+  }
+
+  .hero {
+    min-height: auto;
+    padding: 26px 22px;
+  }
+
+  .hero h1 {
+    font-size: 28px;
+  }
+
+  .hero p {
+    font-size: 14px;
+  }
+
+  .top-layout {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr !important;
+  }
+
+  .summary-row {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+    gap: 6px;
+  }
+
+  .lab-grid-2 {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+  }
+}
+
+
+/* "Analyze Paper" text inside Quick Summary */
+.summary-card .value,
+.summary-card .value *,
+.summary-row .value,
+.summary-row .value * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+  visibility: visible !important;
+}
+
+/* Quick summary text */
+.summary-card .value,
+.summary-card .value *,
+.summary-row .value,
+.summary-row .value * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* Tabs text */
+.gradio-container button[role="tab"],
+.gradio-container button[role="tab"] *,
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button,
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+  visibility: visible !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+.gradio-container button[role="tab"][aria-selected="true"],
+.gradio-container button[role="tab"][aria-selected="true"] *,
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button.selected,
+.gradio-container .tab-nav button.selected * {
+  color: #7c3aed !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #7c3aed !important;
+  font-weight: 800 !important;
+}
+
+/* ===== FINAL LEFT PANEL UPLOAD FIX ===== */
+
+.upload-caption {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  width: fit-content;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 8px;
+  padding: 11px 20px;
+  border-radius: 12px;
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7c3aed, #6d28d9);
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-size: 15px;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  box-shadow: 0 12px 24px rgba(124,58,237,.22);
+  margin-bottom: 0 !important;
+}
+
+.upload-caption * {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+}
+
+#pdf_upload {
+  width: 100% !important;
+  margin: 0 !important;
+  padding: 0 !important;
+  background: transparent !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  box-shadow: none !important;
+}
+
+/* Main drop area only */
+#pdf_upload .wrap {
+  width: 100% !important;
+  min-height: 215px !important;
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 2px dashed #c4b5fd !important;
+  border-radius: 24px !important;
+  display: grid !important;
+  place-items: center !important;
+  text-align: center !important;
+  position: relative !important;
+  overflow: hidden !important;
+}
+
+/* Hide only Gradio placeholder text before upload */
+#pdf_upload .wrap > div:first-child,
+#pdf_upload .wrap > span,
+#pdf_upload .wrap > p {
+  display: none !important;
+}
+
+/* Custom placeholder */
+#pdf_upload .wrap::after {
+  content: "☁️\A Drag & drop your PDF file here\A or click to browse";
+  white-space: pre-line;
+  color: #334155 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #334155 !important;
+  font-size: 16px !important;
+  line-height: 1.8 !important;
+  font-weight: 700 !important;
+  text-align: center !important;
+}
+
+/* After file upload: remove fake placeholder */
+#pdf_upload:has([data-testid="file"]) .wrap::after,
+#pdf_upload:has(.file-preview) .wrap::after {
+  content: "" !important;
+}
+
+/* Uploaded file card readability */
+#pdf_upload [data-testid="file"],
+#pdf_upload .file-preview,
+#pdf_upload .file-preview *,
+#pdf_upload a,
+#pdf_upload span,
+#pdf_upload p {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Hide built-in label only */
+#pdf_upload .label-wrap,
+#pdf_upload label,
+#pdf_upload [data-testid="block-label"],
+#pdf_upload input[type="file"] {
+  display: none !important;
+}
+
+/* Engine wrapper */
+#engine_radio,
+#engine_radio *,
+#engine_radio fieldset,
+#engine_radio .wrap {
+  background: #FFFFFF !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  box-shadow: none !important;
+}
+
+.engine-caption {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  width: fit-content;
+  align-items: center;
+  padding: 8px 14px;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  background: #7c3aed;
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+  font-size: 16px;
+  font-weight: 900;
+  margin-bottom: 10px;
+}
+
+
+#engine_radio label,
+#engine_radio label span {
+  background: transparent !important;
+  border: none !important;
+  box-shadow: none !important;
+  color: #8b5cf6 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #8b5cf6 !important;
+  font-size: 14px !important;
+  font-weight: 900 !important;
+}
+
+/* Selected option purple */
+#engine_radio label:has(input:checked),
+#engine_radio label:has(input:checked) * {
+  color: #5b21b6 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #5b21b6 !important;
+}
+
+/* Radio circles */
+#engine_radio input[type="radio"] {
+  display: inline-block !important;
+  appearance: auto !important;
+  -webkit-appearance: radio !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+  visibility: visible !important;
+  position: static !important;
+  width: 14px !important;
+  height: 14px !important;
+  margin-right: 8px !important;
+  accent-color: #5b21b6 !important;
+}
+
+#engine_radio .wrap {
+  display: flex !important;
+  flex-direction: row !important;
+  gap: 40px !important;
+  align-items: center !important;
+}
+
+/* Hide Gradio's built-in title completely */
+#engine_radio legend,
+#engine_radio .label-wrap,
+#engine_radio [data-testid="block-label"] {
+  display: none !important;
+}
+
+
+/* EMERGENCY READABILITY FIX */
+
+.gradio-container h1,
+.gradio-container h2,
+.gradio-container h3,
+.gradio-container h4,
+.gradio-container h5,
+.gradio-container h6 {
+    color: #111827 !important;
+    opacity: 1 !important;
+    visibility: visible !important;
+    font-weight: 800 !important;
+}
+
+/* Safe readability fix: Markdown only, not JSON/code internals */
+.gradio-container .markdown,
+.gradio-container .markdown p,
+.gradio-container .markdown li,
+.gradio-container .markdown h1,
+.gradio-container .markdown h2,
+.gradio-container .markdown h3,
+.gradio-container .markdown strong {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Keep code/JSON readable */
+.gradio-container pre,
+.gradio-container code,
+.gradio-container pre *,
+.gradio-container code *,
+.gradio-container .cm-editor,
+.gradio-container .cm-editor * {
+  color: inherit !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: inherit !important;
+}
+
+/* ================= FINAL TAB READABILITY PATCH ================= */
+
+/* Normal markdown text, including _Not found._ italic text */
+.gradio-container .markdown,
+.gradio-container .markdown *,
+.gradio-container .prose,
+.gradio-container .prose * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Markdown italic fallback like _Not found._ */
+.gradio-container em,
+.gradio-container i {
+  color: #475569 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #475569 !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Inline code like `survey_or_review` */
+.gradio-container .markdown code,
+.gradio-container p code,
+.gradio-container li code {
+  background: #f1f5f9 !important;
+  color: #5b21b6 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #5b21b6 !important;
+  padding: 2px 6px !important;
+  border-radius: 6px !important;
+  font-weight: 800 !important;
+}
+
+/* Force tab panels to stay white */
+.gradio-container .tabitem,
+.gradio-container .tabitem > div,
+.gradio-container .tabitem .block,
+.gradio-container .tabitem .wrap {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* Advanced accordion fix */
+.gradio-container .accordion,
+.gradio-container .accordion *,
+.gradio-container details,
+.gradio-container details * {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* Tables in Advanced Analysis */
+.gradio-container table,
+.gradio-container table *,
+.gradio-container th,
+.gradio-container td {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+  border-color: #cbd5e1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Code blocks inside markdown */
+.gradio-container pre,
+.gradio-container pre *,
+.gradio-container code,
+.gradio-container code * {
+  background: #f8fafc !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* Export JSON/code viewer: make it readable */
+.gradio-container .cm-editor,
+.gradio-container .cm-editor *,
+.gradio-container .cm-scroller,
+.gradio-container .cm-content,
+.gradio-container .cm-line {
+  background: #f8fafc !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* Export file boxes */
+.gradio-container [data-testid="file"],
+.gradio-container [data-testid="file"] *,
+.gradio-container .file-preview,
+.gradio-container .file-preview * {
+  background: #f8fafc !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+/* ================= LAB READINESS RESTORE ================= */
+
+/* Restore dark Tools tile readability */
+.lab-board .lab-dark,
+.lab-board .lab-dark *,
+.lab-board .lab-dark span,
+.lab-board .lab-dark b {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+/* Optional: softer label inside dark card */
+.lab-board .lab-dark span {
+  color: #c4b5fd !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #c4b5fd !important;
+}
+
+/* Keep other lab tiles clean */
+.lab-board .lab-green,
+.lab-board .lab-green * {
+  color: #065f46 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #065f46 !important;
+}
+
+.lab-board .lab-purple,
+.lab-board .lab-purple * {
+  color: #4c1d95 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #4c1d95 !important;
+}
+
+.lab-board .lab-red,
+.lab-board .lab-red * {
+  color: #9f1239 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #9f1239 !important;
+}
+
+/* ================= HERO COLOR RESTORE ================= */
+
+.hero,
+.hero * {
+  color: inherit;
+}
+
+.hero .logo-text {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+}
+
+.hero .kicker {
+  color: #67e8f9 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #67e8f9 !important;
+}
+
+.hero h1 {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+}
+
+.hero h1 span {
+  color: #a78bfa !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #a78bfa !important;
+}
+
+.hero p {
+  color: rgba(255,255,255,.88) !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: rgba(255,255,255,.88) !important;
+}
+
+.hero .hero-badge,
+.hero .hero-badge * {
+  color: #ffffff !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #ffffff !important;
+}
+
+.hero .logo-mark {
+  color: inherit !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: inherit !important;
+}
+
+/* ================= ASK THE PAPER / RAG FIX ================= */
+
+.rag-panel,
+.rag-panel * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-question,
+.rag-question *,
+.rag-question textarea,
+.rag-question input {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+  border-color: #cbd5e1 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-question textarea::placeholder,
+.rag-question input::placeholder {
+  color: #64748b !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #64748b !important;
+  opacity: 1 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  border: 1px solid #e2e8f0 !important;
+  border-radius: 18px !important;
+  padding: 22px !important;
+  box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgba(15,23,42,.04) !important;
+  line-height: 1.65 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer,
+.rag-answer * {
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer h1,
+.rag-answer h2,
+.rag-answer h3 {
+  margin-top: 18px !important;
+  margin-bottom: 10px !important;
+  font-weight: 900 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer ul {
+  padding-left: 22px !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer li {
+  margin-bottom: 7px !important;
+}
+
+.rag-answer blockquote {
+  margin: 12px 0 !important;
+  padding: 12px 16px !important;
+  border-left: 4px solid #7c3aed !important;
+  background: #f8fafc !important;
+  border-radius: 10px !important;
+  color: #334155 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #334155 !important;
+}
+
+.rag-debug,
+.rag-debug * {
+  background: #ffffff !important;
+  color: #111827 !important;
+  -webkit-text-fill-color: #111827 !important;
+}
+"""
+
+theme = gr.themes.Soft(
+    primary_hue="violet",
+    secondary_hue="blue",
+    neutral_hue="slate",
+)
+
+
+with gr.Blocks(title=APP_NAME, theme=theme, css=CSS) as demo:
+    state = gr.State({})
+
+    gr.HTML(
+        """
+        <div class="app-shell">
+          <section class="hero">
+            <div class="hero-content">
+              <div class="logo-row">
+                <span class="logo-mark">🧪</span>
+                <span class="logo-text">Paper2Lab</span>
+              </div>
+
+              <div class="kicker">Research Assistant</div>
+
+              <h1>
+                Turn research papers into
+                <span>actionable lab plans</span>
+              </h1>
+
+              <p>
+                Upload a PDF and get a structured paper card, lab starter kit,
+                evidence grounding, reproducibility assessment and exportable reports.
+              </p>
+
+              <div class="hero-badges">
+                <div class="hero-badge">✦ AI-powered extraction</div>
+                <div class="hero-badge">□ Evidence grounded</div>
+                <div class="hero-badge">☘ Reproducibility ready</div>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          </section>
+        </div>
+        """
+    )
+
+    with gr.Row(elem_classes=["app-shell", "top-layout"]):
+        with gr.Column(scale=4, min_width=300, elem_classes=["control-stack"]):
+            gr.HTML("""<div class="panel-title">📤 1. Upload your paper</div>""")
+            gr.HTML("""<div class="upload-caption">📄 Drop your PDF here</div>""")
+
+            pdf_input = gr.File(
+                label=None,
+                show_label=False,
+                file_types=[".pdf"],
+                type="filepath",
+                elem_id="pdf_upload",
+                elem_classes=["clean-upload"],
+                )
+            
+            gr.HTML("""<div class="panel-title">⚡ 2. Select analysis engine</div>""")
+            gr.HTML("""<div class="engine-caption">⚙️ Analysis engine</div>""")
+
+            refinement_mode = gr.Radio(
+                label=None,
+                container=False,
+                choices=["local", "nemotron"],
+                value="nemotron",
+                elem_id="engine_radio",
+                )
+
+            run_btn = gr.Button(
+                "✨ Analyze Paper",
+                variant="primary",
+                size="lg",
+                elem_classes=["clean-button"],
+            )
+
+            gr.HTML("""<div class="tip-box">💡 Use a clear-text PDF for best results.</div>""")
+
+        with gr.Column(scale=7, min_width=520, elem_classes=["result-stack"]):
+            quick_summary = gr.HTML(
+                """
+                <div class="summary-card">
+                  <div class="card-head">
+                    <div><span class="icon">📄</span><b>Quick summary</b></div>
+                    <span class="status-pill">Ready</span>
+                  </div>
+                  <div class="summary-row">
+                    <div class="label">Status</div>
+                    <div class="value">Upload a PDF and click <b>Analyze Paper</b>.</div>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+                """
+            )
+
+            lab_cards_html = gr.HTML(
+                """
+                <div class="lab-board">
+                  <div class="lab-board-header">
+                    <span class="lab-emoji">🧪</span>
+                    <span>Lab readiness</span>
+                  </div>
+
+                  <div class="lab-grid-2">
+                    <div class="lab-tile lab-green">
+                      <span>Starter type</span>
+                      <b>Waiting</b>
+                    </div>
+
+                    <div class="lab-tile lab-dark">
+                      <span>Tools</span>
+                      <b>Waiting</b>
+                    </div>
+
+                    <div class="lab-tile lab-purple">
+                      <span>Experiments</span>
+                      <b>Waiting</b>
+                    </div>
+
+                    <div class="lab-tile lab-red">
+                      <span>Risks</span>
+                      <b>Waiting</b>
+                    </div>
+                  </div>
+                </div>
+                """
+            )
+
+    with gr.Row(elem_classes=["app-shell", "tabs-shell"]):
+        with gr.Column():
+            with gr.Tabs():
+                with gr.Tab("📄 Paper Summary"):
+                    paper_md = gr.Markdown()
+
+                with gr.Tab("🧪 Lab Starter Kit"):
+                    lab_md = gr.Markdown()
+
+                with gr.Tab("🔎 Evidence Viewer"):
+                    evidence_md = gr.Markdown()
+
+                with gr.Tab("💬 Ask the Paper"):
+                    with gr.Column(elem_classes=["rag-panel"]):
+                        rag_question = gr.Textbox(
+                            label="Ask a question about the uploaded paper",
+                            placeholder="Example: What datasets were used?",
+                            lines=2,
+                            elem_classes=["rag-question"],
+                          )
+
+                        rag_btn = gr.Button("Ask", variant="primary")
+
+                        rag_answer = gr.Markdown(elem_classes=["rag-answer"])
+
+                        rag_json = gr.JSON(
+                            label="RAG debug output",
+                            elem_classes=["rag-debug"],
+                            visible=False,   # better for demo
+                          )
+
+                with gr.Tab("⚙️ Advanced Analysis"):
+                    with gr.Accordion("Model comparison, selection report, metadata", open=False):
+                        advanced_md = gr.Markdown()
+
+                with gr.Tab("⬇️ Export"):
+                    final_json = gr.JSON(label="Final paper card")
+                    json_file = gr.File(label="Download JSON")
+                    md_file = gr.File(label="Download Markdown report")
+
+    run_btn.click(
+        fn=analyze_paper,
+        inputs=[pdf_input, refinement_mode],
+        outputs=[
+            state,
+            quick_summary,
+            paper_md,
+            lab_md,
+            evidence_md,
+            advanced_md,
+            lab_cards_html,
+            final_json,
+            json_file,
+            md_file,
+        ],
+        show_progress=True,
+    )
+
+    rag_btn.click(
+    fn=ask_paper_question,
+    inputs=[state, rag_question],
+    outputs=[rag_answer, rag_json],
+    show_progress=True,
+)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    demo.queue()
+    demo.launch()

modal_refine.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import modal
+
+app = modal.App("paper2lab-nemotron")
+
+image = (
+    modal.Image.debian_slim(python_version="3.11")
+    .pip_install("requests")
+    .add_local_dir("src/paper2lab", remote_path="/root/paper2lab")
+)
+
+secret = modal.Secret.from_name("nvidia-api-key")
+
+
+@app.function(
+    image=image,
+    secrets=[secret],
+    timeout=180,
+)
+def refine_remote(
+    llm_evidence_pack: dict,
+    model: str = "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b",
+    return_comparison: bool = True,
+) -> dict:
+    from paper2lab.inference.nemotron_refiner import refine_with_nemotron
+
+    return refine_with_nemotron(
+        llm_evidence_pack=llm_evidence_pack,
+        model=model,
+        return_comparison=return_comparison,
+    )
+
+
+@app.local_entrypoint()
+def main():
+    sample_pack = {
+        "candidate_paper_card": {
+            "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
+            "field": "Natural Language Processing",
+            "paper_type": "machine_learning",
+            "research_question": "The paper proposes the Transformer architecture.",
+            "contributions": [
+                "The paper proposes a Transformer architecture based on attention."
+            ],
+            "methodology": [
+                "The model uses multi-head self-attention and feed-forward layers."
+            ],
+            "datasets_or_data_sources": [
+                "WMT 2014 English-German dataset",
+                "RNN",
+                "BerkleyParser"
+            ],
+            "models_or_methods": [
+                "Transformer",
+                "multi-head attention"
+            ],
+            "metrics_or_measurements": [
+                "BLEU"
+            ],
+            "key_findings": [],
+            "limitations": [],
+            "missing_reproducibility_info": [
+                "random seed is not specified"
+            ],
+            "metadata": {},
+            "source_pdf": "attention is all you need.pdf",
+            "annotation_version": "v1.0",
+        },
+        "section_previews": [
+            {
+                "title": "Training Data and Batching",
+                "role_hint": "methodology",
+                "page_start": 7,
+                "page_end": 7,
+                "preview": "We trained on the standard WMT 2014 English-German dataset consisting of about 4.5 million sentence pairs. For English-French, we used the significantly larger WMT 2014 English-French dataset consisting of 36M sentences."
+            }
+        ],
+        "captions": [],
+        "tables": [],
+        "metadata": {}
+    }
+
+    result = refine_remote.remote(sample_pack)
+    print(result)

requirements.txt

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+# UI
+gradio>=5.0.0
+
+# PDF processing
+pymupdf>=1.26.0
+docling>=2.4.0
+
+# LLMs
+transformers>=4.53.0
+torch>=2.7.0
+accelerate>=1.8.0
+
+# Tokenizers & model loading
+sentencepiece>=0.2.0
+safetensors>=0.5.0
+tokenizers>=0.21.0
+
+# Data processing
+numpy>=2.2.0
+pandas>=2.3.0
+pyyaml>=6.0.2
+
+# Validation
+pydantic>=2.11.0
+
+# Utilities
+tqdm>=4.67.0
+python-dotenv>=1.1.0
+
+# Evaluation
+scikit-learn>=1.7.0
+
+# RAG
+sentence-transformers 
+faiss-cpu
+# Testing
+pytest>=8.4.0
+
+#modal
+modal

scripts/audit_pipeline.py

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+from pathlib import Path
+from paper2lab.inference.pipeline import PaperPipeline
+
+p = PaperPipeline(refinement_mode="nemotron")
+
+total = 0
+errors = 0
+weak = 0
+
+for pdf in Path("Data/papers").rglob("*.pdf"):
+    total += 1
+
+    try:
+        r = p.run(str(pdf))
+        c = r["paper_card_final"]
+
+        roadmap = c.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+        if not isinstance(roadmap, dict):
+            roadmap = {}
+
+        kit = c.get("lab_starter_kit") or {}
+        if not isinstance(kit, dict):
+            kit = {}
+
+        datasets = c.get("datasets_or_data_sources") or []
+        findings = c.get("key_findings") or []
+        roadmap_steps = roadmap.get("experimental_steps") or []
+        kit_structure = kit.get("project_structure") or []
+        kit_risks = kit.get("reproducibility_risks") or []
+
+        is_weak = (
+            not c.get("title")
+            or not c.get("paper_type")
+            or not roadmap
+            or not kit
+            or len(kit_structure) == 0
+        )
+
+        if is_weak:
+            weak += 1
+
+        print("\n---", pdf.name)
+        print("type:", c.get("paper_type"))
+        print("datasets:", len(datasets), datasets[:3])
+        print("findings:", len(findings))
+        print("roadmap steps:", len(roadmap_steps))
+        print("lab kit structure:", len(kit_structure))
+        print("lab risks:", len(kit_risks))
+        print("refinement:", r["refinement"]["status"])
+        print("weak:", is_weak)
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        errors += 1
+        print("\nERROR:", pdf.name)
+        print(str(e))
+
+print("\n====================")
+print("TOTAL:", total)
+print("ERRORS:", errors)
+print("WEAK:", weak)
+print("====================")

src/paper2lab/evaluation/reproducibility.py

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+"""
+reproducibility.py — Missing-information detection and reproducibility scoring.
+
+Scores are heuristic and evidence-based. The goal is to produce a useful local
+candidate before Nemotron refinement, while avoiding overconfident scores when
+PDF extraction evidence is noisy.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Text helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = text.replace("\x00", " ").replace("\u00a0", " ")
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\b10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", "", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _joined_text(extracted: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    parts: List[str] = []
+    for sec in extracted.get("sections", []) or []:
+        if sec.get("role") in {"references", "appendix", "boilerplate"}:
+            continue
+        parts.append(str(sec.get("title", "")))
+        parts.append(str(sec.get("text", "")))
+    return _clean("\n".join(parts)).lower()
+
+
+def _has_any(text: str, terms: List[str]) -> bool:
+    return any(t.lower() in text for t in terms)
+
+
+def _matched_terms(text: str, terms: List[str], limit: int = 5) -> List[str]:
+    return [t for t in terms if t.lower() in text][:limit]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Paper-type-specific reproducibility checks
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _check_items(paper_type: str) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        return {
+            "search databases specified": [
+                "pubmed", "scopus", "web of knowledge", "eric", "cochrane",
+                "database", "databases",
+            ],
+            "search date range specified": [
+                "january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june",
+                "july", "august", "september", "october", "november", "december",
+                "between", "from", "until", "to january", "published between",
+            ],
+            "inclusion criteria specified": [
+                "inclusion criteria", "eligibility criteria", "eligible studies",
+            ],
+            "exclusion criteria specified": [
+                "exclusion criteria", "excluded", "not being", "were excluded",
+            ],
+            "screening process specified": [
+                "screened", "screening", "titles and abstracts", "two independent",
+                "reviewers", "duplicates", "endnote",
+            ],
+            "quality assessment specified": [
+                "quality assessment", "risk of bias", "best evidence medical education",
+                "valid tool", "critical appraisal", "assessment tool",
+            ],
+            "number of included studies specified": [
+                "included", "enrolled", "final review", "studies were included",
+                "articles were included", "10 articles", "ten studies",
+            ],
+        }
+
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        return {
+            "dataset details specified": [
+                "dataset", "training set", "test set", "validation set", "benchmark",
+                "corpus", "samples", "instances",
+            ],
+            "train/validation/test split specified": [
+                "train", "validation", "test", "split", "dev set", "development set",
+            ],
+            "model architecture specified": [
+                "architecture", "layers", "encoder", "decoder", "transformer", "cnn",
+                "resnet", "bert", "attention", "feed-forward",
+            ],
+            "hyperparameters specified": [
+                "learning rate", "batch size", "epochs", "optimizer", "dropout",
+                "weight decay", "warmup", "scheduler",
+            ],
+            "hardware specified": [
+                "gpu", "tpu", "cuda", "p100", "v100", "a100", "nvidia",
+            ],
+            "evaluation metrics specified": [
+                "accuracy", "f1", "auc", "bleu", "rouge", "perplexity", "rmse", "mae",
+                "precision", "recall",
+            ],
+            "code availability specified": [
+                "github", "code", "repository", "available at", "source code",
+            ],
+            "random seed specified": ["random seed", "seed"],
+        }
+
+    if paper_type == "clinical_study":
+        return {
+            "cohort or participants specified": [
+                "patients", "participants", "cohort", "subjects", "population",
+            ],
+            "inclusion criteria specified": ["inclusion criteria", "eligible"],
+            "exclusion criteria specified": ["exclusion criteria", "excluded"],
+            "outcomes specified": ["outcome", "endpoint", "mortality", "diagnosis"],
+            "statistical analysis specified": [
+                "statistical analysis", "p-value", "confidence interval", "regression",
+            ],
+            "ethics approval specified": [
+                "ethics", "institutional review", "informed consent", "irb",
+            ],
+        }
+
+    return {
+        "data/source details specified": [
+            "data", "dataset", "source", "samples", "studies", "articles",
+        ],
+        "method/procedure specified": [
+            "method", "procedure", "approach", "experiment", "analysis",
+        ],
+        "evaluation or analysis specified": [
+            "evaluation", "result", "metric", "analysis", "measured", "assessed",
+        ],
+        "limitations discussed": ["limitation", "limitations", "future work"],
+    }
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Evidence quality / noise handling
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_NOISY_EVIDENCE_MARKERS = [
+    "the there",
+    "being accordingly",
+    "endnote teachers",
+    "resultsare",
+    "analysis of the resultsare",
+    "table 2:",
+    "department of",
+    "university of",
+    "medical sciences",
+    "corresponding author",
+    "access this article online",
+    "how to cite",
+    "need this systematic review",
+    "the that",
+]
+
+
+def _roadmap_blob(paper_card: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    roadmap = paper_card.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+    parts: List[str] = []
+
+    for key in [
+        "datasets",
+        "software_requirements",
+        "experimental_steps",
+        "evaluation_procedure",
+        "expected_outputs",
+        "missing_for_reproduction",
+    ]:
+        value = roadmap.get(key, [])
+        if isinstance(value, list):
+            for item in value:
+                if isinstance(item, dict):
+                    parts.extend(str(v) for v in item.values())
+                else:
+                    parts.append(str(item))
+        elif value:
+            parts.append(str(value))
+
+    return _clean(" ".join(parts)).lower()
+
+
+def _noise_report(extracted: Dict[str, Any], paper_card: Dict[str, Any]) -> Tuple[int, List[str]]:
+    """Return count and examples of noisy evidence markers."""
+    blob = _roadmap_blob(paper_card)
+    if not blob:
+        # Fallback to body text only if roadmap is not yet attached.
+        blob = _joined_text(extracted)
+
+    found = [m for m in _NOISY_EVIDENCE_MARKERS if m in blob]
+
+    # Extra generic noise signals.
+    if len(re.findall(r"\[\d+", blob)) >= 12:
+        found.append("many citation fragments")
+    if re.search(r"\b(the|and|of)\s+\1\b", blob):
+        found.append("repeated function-word artifact")
+
+    return len(found), found[:8]
+
+
+def _apply_score_caps(
+    paper_type: str,
+    score: float,
+    missing: List[str],
+    extracted: Dict[str, Any],
+    paper_card: Dict[str, Any],
+) -> Tuple[float, List[str], Dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Prevent misleadingly high scores when evidence is noisy or incomplete."""
+    diagnostics: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    noise_count, noise_examples = _noise_report(extracted, paper_card)
+    diagnostics["noise_count"] = noise_count
+    diagnostics["noise_examples"] = noise_examples
+
+    if noise_count > 0:
+        msg = "some extracted evidence appears noisy due to PDF layout"
+        if msg not in missing:
+            missing.append(msg)
+
+    # Systematic reviews should not get 1.0 if roadmap/evidence is visibly noisy.
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        if noise_count >= 3:
+            score = min(score, 0.65)
+        elif noise_count >= 1:
+            score = min(score, 0.75)
+
+        roadmap = paper_card.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+        if not roadmap.get("experimental_steps"):
+            score = min(score, 0.70)
+        if not roadmap.get("evaluation_procedure"):
+            score = min(score, 0.70)
+
+    # ML papers need either hyperparameters or code/hardware to be strong.
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        text = _joined_text(extracted)
+        has_hparams = _has_any(text, ["learning rate", "batch size", "optimizer", "dropout", "epoch"])
+        has_code = _has_any(text, ["github", "repository", "code available", "source code"])
+        has_hardware = _has_any(text, ["gpu", "tpu", "cuda", "p100", "v100", "a100"])
+        if not has_hparams:
+            score = min(score, 0.80)
+        if not has_code and not has_hardware:
+            score = min(score, 0.85)
+
+    return round(score, 3), missing, diagnostics
+
+
+def _score_level(score: float) -> str:
+    if score >= 0.80:
+        return "strong"
+    if score >= 0.50:
+        return "partial"
+    return "weak"
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public API
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def reproducibility_report(extracted: Dict[str, Any], paper_card: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    paper_type = paper_card.get("paper_type", "general_research")
+    text = _joined_text(extracted)
+    checks = _check_items(paper_type)
+
+    detected: List[str] = []
+    missing: List[str] = []
+    evidence: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
+
+    for label, terms in checks.items():
+        if _has_any(text, terms):
+            detected.append(label)
+            evidence[label] = _matched_terms(text, terms)
+        else:
+            missing.append(label)
+
+    # Candidate-card overrides for generic papers.
+    if paper_card.get("datasets_or_data_sources") and "data/source details specified" in missing:
+        missing.remove("data/source details specified")
+        detected.append("data/source details specified")
+        evidence["data/source details specified"] = ["paper_card.datasets_or_data_sources"]
+
+    if paper_card.get("metrics_or_measurements") and "evaluation or analysis specified" in missing:
+        missing.remove("evaluation or analysis specified")
+        detected.append("evaluation or analysis specified")
+        evidence["evaluation or analysis specified"] = ["paper_card.metrics_or_measurements"]
+
+    total = max(1, len(checks))
+    score = len(detected) / total
+
+    score, missing, diagnostics = _apply_score_caps(
+        paper_type=paper_type,
+        score=score,
+        missing=missing,
+        extracted=extracted,
+        paper_card=paper_card,
+    )
+
+    # Deduplicate while preserving order.
+    detected = list(dict.fromkeys(detected))
+    missing = list(dict.fromkeys(missing))
+
+    return {
+        "paper_type": paper_type,
+        "score": score,
+        "level": _score_level(score),
+        "detected_items": detected,
+        "missing_items": missing,
+        "evidence_terms": evidence,
+        "diagnostics": diagnostics,
+    }

src/paper2lab/inference/auto_select.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple, final
+
+
+FINAL_FIELDS = [
+    "title",
+    "field",
+    "paper_type",
+    "research_question",
+    "contributions",
+    "methodology",
+    "datasets_or_data_sources",
+    "models_or_methods",
+    "metrics_or_measurements",
+    "key_findings",
+    "limitations",
+    "missing_reproducibility_info",
+    "reproduction_roadmap",
+    "reproducibility_score",
+    "figures_and_tables",
+    "lab_starter_kit",
+    "metadata",
+    "source_pdf",
+    "annotation_version",
+]
+
+
+PREFER_LOCAL_FIELDS = {
+    "figures_and_tables",
+    "reproducibility_score",
+    "metadata",
+    "source_pdf",
+    "annotation_version",
+}
+
+PREFER_REFINED_FIELDS = {
+    "research_question",
+    "contributions",
+    "methodology",
+    "datasets_or_data_sources",
+    "models_or_methods",
+    "metrics_or_measurements",
+    "key_findings",
+    "limitations",
+    "missing_reproducibility_info",
+    "reproduction_roadmap",
+    "lab_starter_kit",
+}
+
+
+NOISE_TERMS = [
+    "department of",
+    "university of",
+    "corresponding author",
+    "gmail.com",
+    "references",
+    "table of contents",
+    "being accordingly",
+    "endnote teachers",
+    "the there",
+    "resultsare",
+    "analysis of the resultsare",
+    "access this article online",
+    "how to cite",
+]
+
+
+def _clean_text(value: Any) -> str:
+    text = str(value or "")
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    return text.strip()
+
+
+def _flatten(value: Any) -> str:
+    if value is None:
+        return ""
+
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        return value
+
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        parts = []
+        for item in value:
+            parts.append(_flatten(item))
+        return " ".join(parts)
+
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        parts = []
+        for item in value.values():
+            parts.append(_flatten(item))
+        return " ".join(parts)
+
+    return str(value)
+
+
+def _is_empty(value: Any) -> bool:
+    if value is None:
+        return True
+    if value == "":
+        return True
+    if isinstance(value, list) and len(value) == 0:
+        return True
+    if isinstance(value, dict) and len(value) == 0:
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _noise_score(value: Any) -> float:
+    text = _flatten(value).lower()
+    if not text:
+        return 1.0
+
+    score = 0.0
+
+    for term in NOISE_TERMS:
+        if term in text:
+            score += 1.0
+
+    if len(text.split()) > 900:
+        score += 2.0
+    elif len(text.split()) > 450:
+        score += 1.0
+
+    if len(re.findall(r"\[\d+\]", text)) >= 5:
+        score += 1.0
+
+    return score
+
+
+def _structure_score(value: Any) -> float:
+    if _is_empty(value):
+        return 0.0
+
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        if not value:
+            return 0.0
+        short_items = 0
+        for item in value:
+            words = len(_flatten(item).split())
+            if 1 <= words <= 35:
+                short_items += 1
+        return min(1.0, short_items / max(1, len(value)))
+
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        return min(1.0, len(value.keys()) / 5)
+
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        words = len(value.split())
+        if 3 <= words <= 60:
+            return 1.0
+        if words <= 120:
+            return 0.6
+        return 0.2
+
+    return 0.4
+
+
+def _completeness_score(value: Any) -> float:
+    if _is_empty(value):
+        return 0.0
+
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        return min(1.0, len(value) / 4)
+
+    if isinstance(value, dict):
+        non_empty = sum(1 for v in value.values() if not _is_empty(v))
+        return min(1.0, non_empty / max(1, len(value)))
+
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        words = len(value.split())
+        return min(1.0, words / 20)
+
+    return 0.5
+
+
+def _score_field(field: str, value: Any) -> float:
+    if _is_empty(value):
+        return 0.0
+
+    completeness = _completeness_score(value)
+    structure = _structure_score(value)
+    noise = _noise_score(value)
+
+    score = (0.45 * completeness) + (0.45 * structure) - (0.25 * noise)
+
+    if field in PREFER_LOCAL_FIELDS:
+        score += 0.15
+
+    if field in PREFER_REFINED_FIELDS:
+        score += 0.10
+
+    return round(max(0.0, min(1.0, score)), 4)
+
+
+def _similarity(a: Any, b: Any) -> float:
+    text_a = set(re.findall(r"[a-z0-9]+", _flatten(a).lower()))
+    text_b = set(re.findall(r"[a-z0-9]+", _flatten(b).lower()))
+
+    if not text_a and not text_b:
+        return 1.0
+    if not text_a or not text_b:
+        return 0.0
+
+    return len(text_a & text_b) / max(1, len(text_a | text_b))
+
+
+def _choose_field(
+    field: str,
+    local_value: Any,
+    refined_value: Any,
+) -> Tuple[Any, Dict[str, Any]]:
+    local_score = _score_field(field, local_value)
+    refined_score = _score_field(field, refined_value)
+    similarity = round(_similarity(local_value, refined_value), 4)
+
+    # For Lab Starter Kit, prefer local when it is paper-type-aware.
+    # Nemotron sometimes converts systematic reviews / clinical papers into ML-style kits.
+    if field == "lab_starter_kit" and isinstance(local_value, dict):
+        local_text = _flatten(local_value).lower()
+        refined_text = _flatten(refined_value).lower()
+
+        local_is_specialized = any(x in local_text for x in [
+            "starter_type",
+            "systematic_review",
+            "clinical_study",
+            "survey_or_review",
+            "search_strategy",
+            "screening_checklist",
+            "cohort_design",
+            "literature_mapping_plan",
+            "quality_assessment",
+        ])
+
+        refined_looks_ml_generic = any(x in refined_text for x in [
+            "train.py",
+            "training_configuration",
+            "hyperparameters",
+            "baseline model",
+            "training pipeline",
+            "model_or_method",
+        ])
+
+        if local_is_specialized or refined_looks_ml_generic:
+            return local_value, {
+                "winner": "local",
+                "local_score": local_score,
+                "nemotron_score": refined_score,
+                "similarity": similarity,
+                "reason": "local lab_starter_kit is more paper-type-aware",
+            }
+
+    if _is_empty(local_value) and not _is_empty(refined_value):
+        winner = "nemotron"
+        value = refined_value
+    elif _is_empty(refined_value) and not _is_empty(local_value):
+        winner = "local"
+        value = local_value
+    elif field in PREFER_LOCAL_FIELDS and local_score >= refined_score - 0.12:
+        winner = "local"
+        value = local_value
+    elif field in PREFER_REFINED_FIELDS and refined_score >= local_score - 0.08:
+        winner = "nemotron"
+        value = refined_value
+    elif refined_score > local_score:
+        winner = "nemotron"
+        value = refined_value
+    else:
+        winner = "local"
+        value = local_value
+
+    return value, {
+        "winner": winner,
+        "local_score": local_score,
+        "nemotron_score": refined_score,
+        "similarity": similarity,
+    }
+
+def _clean_final_datasets(items: Any, paper_type: str = "") -> List[str]:
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        return []
+
+    paper_type = (paper_type or "").lower()
+
+    canonical_sources = {
+        "pubmed": "PubMed",
+        "scopus": "Scopus",
+        "web of knowledge": "Web of Knowledge",
+        "web of science": "Web of Science",
+        "google scholar": "Google Scholar",
+        "cochrane": "Cochrane",
+        "cochrane library": "Cochrane Library",
+        "embase": "Embase",
+        "medline": "MEDLINE",
+        "clinicaltrials": "ClinicalTrials.gov",
+    }
+
+    reject_terms = [
+        "limitation", "limitations", "ecological design", "classification error",
+        "incorrect spatial", "temporal assignments", "overfitting", "pseudo-accuracy",
+        "beam size", "during inference", "dropout", "optimizer", "learning rate",
+        "institutional review board", "informed consent", "validation set",
+        "training set", "test set", "cross-validation", "augmentation",
+    ]
+
+    known_dataset_patterns = [
+        r"\bPTB-XL\b",
+        r"\bMUSE\b",
+        r"\bTCGA[- ]?[A-Z0-9]+\b",
+        r"\bGSE\d+\b",
+        r"\bOECD International Migration Database\b",
+        r"\bSeoul Asan Medical Center Hospital\b",
+
+        # NLP datasets
+        r"\bWMT\s*2014\b",
+        r"\bWMT\b",
+        r"\bPenn Treebank\b",
+        r"\bWall Street Journal\b",
+        r"\bWSJ\b",
+        r"\b\d+\s+samples\b",
+
+        # ML benchmarks
+        r"\bHiggs Boson dataset\b",
+        r"\bYahoo!?\s*LTRC\s*dataset\b",
+        r"\bAllstate dataset\b",
+        r"\bJFT-300M\b",
+        r"\bImageNet(?:-21k)?\b",
+        r"\bCOCO\b",
+        r"\bCityscapes\b",
+        r"\bCora\b",
+        r"\bCiteseer\b",
+        r"\bPubmed\b",
+        r"\bNELL\b",
+    ]
+
+    out: List[str] = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        text = _clean_text(item)
+        low = text.lower()
+
+        if not text or any(bad in low for bad in reject_terms):
+            continue
+
+        if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+            for key, label in canonical_sources.items():
+                if re.search(rf"(?<![a-z0-9]){re.escape(key)}(?![a-z0-9])", low):
+                    out.append(label)
+            continue
+
+        if paper_type in {"machine_learning", "clinical_study", "survey_study"}:
+            for pat in known_dataset_patterns:
+                for m in re.finditer(pat, text, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
+                    out.append(m.group(0).strip())
+            continue
+
+        if len(text.split()) <= 10 and re.search(
+            r"\b(dataset|database|repository|registry|cohort|records|patients|participants)\b",
+            low,
+        ):
+            out.append(text)
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        if "ERIC" in out and not any("educational resources" in str(x).lower() for x in items):
+            out = [x for x in out if x != "ERIC"]
+
+    return list(dict.fromkeys(out))
+
+
+def _clean_final_models(items: Any) -> List[str]:
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        return []
+
+    known = [
+        "pix2pix GAN", "GAN", "ResNet", "U-Net", "U-CS", "U-SS",
+        "random forests", "SVM", "support vector machines", "XGBoost",
+        "CIBERSORT", "OLS", "PPML", "IV-Poisson", "2SLS",
+        "control function approach", "ARIMA", "SIR", "SEIR", "SQUIDER", "LSTM",
+        "ChatGPT",
+    ]
+
+    out = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        text = _clean_text(item)
+        low = text.lower()
+
+        for name in known:
+            if re.search(
+                rf"(?<![a-z0-9]){re.escape(name.lower())}(?![a-z0-9])",
+                low,
+            ):
+                out.append(name)
+
+        if len(text.split()) <= 8:
+            out.append(text)
+
+    out = list(dict.fromkeys(out))
+
+    # Canonicalize aliases
+    if "SVM" in out:
+        out = [x for x in out if x not in {"support vector machines", "support vector machines (SVM)"}]
+
+    return out
+
+def _clean_final_metrics(items: Any) -> List[str]:
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        return []
+
+    out = []
+    blob = " ".join(_clean_text(x) for x in items)
+
+    patterns = [
+        r"\bAUC(?: values?)?\s*(?:approximately|around)?\s*[0-9.]+(?:\s*[-–]\s*[0-9.]+)?",
+        r"\bROC(?: curve)?\b",
+        r"\bfivefold cross-validation\b",
+        r"\bcross-validation\b",
+        r"\bheld-out test dataset\b",
+        r"\bp[- ]?values?\b",
+    ]
+
+    for pat in patterns:
+        for m in re.finditer(pat, blob, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
+            out.append(_clean_text(m.group(0)))
+
+    return list(dict.fromkeys(out))
+
+def _clean_final_findings(items: Any) -> List[str]:
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        return []
+
+    out = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        text = _clean_text(item)
+        low = text.lower()
+
+        if not text:
+            continue
+
+        if len(text.split()) > 45:
+            if "auc" in low:
+                out.append("XGBoost and Random Forest achieved moderate predictive performance with AUC values around 0.57–0.58.")
+            elif "surviving patients" in low:
+                out.append("Surviving patients showed longer survival durations than deceased patients.")
+            elif "enriched pathways" in low:
+                out.append("Enriched pathways included protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum, viral transcription, and cadherin-mediated binding.")
+            continue
+
+        out.append(text)
+
+    return list(dict.fromkeys(out))[:6]
+
+
+def build_auto_best_card(
+    local_card: Dict[str, Any],
+    refinement: Dict[str, Any],
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """
+    Build a hybrid final card by selecting the best field from:
+    - local rule-based extraction
+    - Nemotron-refined extraction
+
+    If Nemotron failed or was skipped, returns local card.
+    """
+
+    if refinement.get("status") != "ok":
+        return {
+            "status": "local_only",
+            "final_paper_card": local_card,
+            "selection_report": {
+                "reason": "Nemotron refinement was skipped or failed.",
+                "fields": {},
+            },
+        }
+
+    refined_card = refinement.get("after_refinement")
+    if not isinstance(refined_card, dict):
+        return {
+            "status": "local_only",
+            "final_paper_card": local_card,
+            "selection_report": {
+                "reason": "Nemotron output was not a valid dictionary.",
+                "fields": {},
+            },
+        }
+
+    final: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    report: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+
+    all_fields = list(dict.fromkeys(FINAL_FIELDS + list(local_card.keys()) + list(refined_card.keys())))
+
+    for field in all_fields:
+        if field == "llm_evidence_pack":
+            continue
+
+        local_value = local_card.get(field)
+        refined_value = refined_card.get(field)
+
+        value, field_report = _choose_field(field, local_value, refined_value)
+
+        final[field] = value
+        report[field] = field_report
+
+    local_count = sum(1 for r in report.values() if r.get("winner") == "local")
+    nemotron_count = sum(1 for r in report.values() if r.get("winner") == "nemotron")
+
+    final["selection_metadata"] = {
+        "strategy": "field_level_auto_best",
+        "local_fields_used": local_count,
+        "nemotron_fields_used": nemotron_count,
+        "total_fields_compared": len(report),
+    }
+
+    final["datasets_or_data_sources"] = _clean_final_datasets(
+        final.get("datasets_or_data_sources", []),
+        final.get("paper_type", ""),
+    )
+
+    if not final.get("datasets_or_data_sources"):
+        roadmap = final.get("reproduction_roadmap")
+        if isinstance(roadmap, dict):
+            final["datasets_or_data_sources"] = _clean_final_datasets(
+                roadmap.get("datasets", []),
+                final.get("paper_type", ""),
+            )
+
+    if not final.get("datasets_or_data_sources"):
+        kit = final.get("lab_starter_kit")
+        if isinstance(kit, dict):
+            final["datasets_or_data_sources"] = _clean_final_datasets(
+                kit.get("dataset_plan", []),
+                final.get("paper_type", ""),
+            )
+
+    final["models_or_methods"] = _clean_final_models(
+        final.get("models_or_methods", [])
+    )
+
+    final["metrics_or_measurements"] = _clean_final_metrics(
+        final.get("metrics_or_measurements", [])
+    )
+
+    final["key_findings"] = _clean_final_findings(
+        final.get("key_findings", [])
+    )
+
+    if isinstance(final.get("lab_starter_kit"), dict):
+        for key in ["dataset_plan", "search_strategy", "literature_mapping_plan"]:
+            if key in final["lab_starter_kit"]:
+                final["lab_starter_kit"][key] = _clean_final_datasets(
+                    final["lab_starter_kit"].get(key, []),
+                    "machine_learning" if key == "dataset_plan" else final.get("paper_type", ""),
+                )
+
+    return {
+        "status": "ok",
+        "final_paper_card": final,
+        "selection_report": {
+            "strategy": "field_level_auto_best",
+            "fields": report,
+        },
+    }

src/paper2lab/inference/gradio_pipeline.py

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+"""
+gradio_pipeline.py — Gradio UI for Paper2Lab section-aware extraction.
+
+This UI matches the current pre-LLM pipeline:
+- No Anthropic parameters.
+- Shows section roles and whether references/appendix were removed from clean text.
+- Downloads the paper_card JSON.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import tempfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, Tuple
+
+import gradio as gr
+
+from paper2lab.inference.pipeline import PaperPipeline
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _fmt_list(items: list[str] | None, max_items: int = 8) -> str:
+    if not items:
+        return "_None detected_"
+    shown = items[:max_items]
+    suffix = f"\n… +{len(items) - max_items} more" if len(items) > max_items else ""
+    return "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in shown) + suffix
+
+
+def _quality_badge(score: float) -> str:
+    if score >= 0.75:
+        return f"🟢 Quality score: {score:.2f}"
+    if score >= 0.45:
+        return f"🟡 Quality score: {score:.2f}"
+    return f"🔴 Quality score: {score:.2f} — extraction may be incomplete"
+
+
+def _build_overview(result: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    card = result["paper_card"]
+    ext = result["extraction"]
+    quality = ext.get("quality", {})
+    metadata = card.get("metadata", {})
+
+    lines = [
+        f"## {card.get('title') or '_(title not found)_'}",
+        f"**Field:** {card.get('field', '—')}  |  "
+        f"**Pages:** {ext.get('num_pages', '?')}  |  "
+        f"**Engine:** {ext.get('extraction_engine', '?')}  |  "
+        + _quality_badge(float(quality.get("quality_score", 0.0))),
+        "",
+        "### Extraction Safety",
+        f"- References removed from body text: {'✅' if metadata.get('references_removed_from_body') else '⚠️ not detected'}",
+        f"- Appendix removed from body text: {'✅' if metadata.get('appendix_removed_from_body') else '—'}",
+        f"- Methodology section found: {'✅' if quality.get('methodology_section_found') else '⚠️ fallback may be used'}",
+        "",
+        "### Research Question",
+        card.get("research_question") or "_Not detected_",
+        "",
+        "### Abstract",
+        ext.get("abstract") or "_Not extracted_",
+        "",
+        "### Contributions",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("contributions")),
+        "",
+        "### Methodology",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("methodology")),
+        "",
+        "### Datasets / Data Sources",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("datasets_or_data_sources")),
+        "",
+        "### Models / Methods",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("models_or_methods")),
+        "",
+        "### Metrics & Measurements",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("metrics_or_measurements")),
+        "",
+        "### Key Findings",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("key_findings")),
+        "",
+        "### Limitations",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("limitations")),
+        "",
+        "### Missing Reproducibility Info",
+        _fmt_list(card.get("missing_reproducibility_info")),
+    ]
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def _build_extraction_details(result: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    ext = result["extraction"]
+    sections = ext.get("sections", [])
+    refs = ext.get("references", [])
+    captions = ext.get("captions", [])
+    tables = ext.get("tables", [])
+    quality = ext.get("quality", {})
+
+    section_list = "\n".join(
+        f"  - **{s.get('title', '?')}** — role `{s.get('role', 'other')}`, "
+        f"pages {s.get('page_start', '?')}–{s.get('page_end', '?')}, "
+        f"{len((s.get('text') or '').split())} words"
+        for s in sections
+    )
+    ref_sample = "\n".join(f"  {i + 1}. {r[:140]}…" for i, r in enumerate(refs[:5]))
+    cap_sample = "\n".join(
+        f"  - **{c.get('label')}**: {(c.get('caption') or '')[:120]}…" for c in captions[:5]
+    )
+    table_info = "\n".join(
+        f"  - Page {t.get('page_number', '?')}, {len(t.get('data', []))} rows × "
+        f"{len(t.get('data', [[]])[0]) if t.get('data') else '?'} cols"
+        for t in tables[:5]
+    )
+
+    lines = [
+        "## Extraction Details",
+        "",
+        "### Quality",
+        f"- Title found: {'✅' if quality.get('title_found') else '❌'}",
+        f"- Abstract found: {'✅' if quality.get('abstract_found') else '❌'}",
+        f"- Sections: {quality.get('num_sections', 0)}",
+        f"- Section roles: `{', '.join(quality.get('section_roles', []))}`",
+        f"- References: {quality.get('num_references', 0)}",
+        f"- Captions: {quality.get('num_captions', 0)}",
+        f"- Tables: {quality.get('num_tables', 0)}",
+        "",
+        "### Sections Detected",
+        section_list or "_None_",
+        "",
+        "### References moved to metadata/body-excluded area — first 5",
+        ref_sample or "_None_",
+        "",
+        "### Captions — first 5",
+        cap_sample or "_None_",
+        "",
+        "### Tables — first 5",
+        table_info or "_None_",
+        "",
+        "### Clean Text Preview — references excluded",
+        "```",
+        ext.get("text_preview", "")[:1800],
+        "```",
+    ]
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Processing
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def process_pdf(pdf_file: Any, engine: str, include_llm_pack: bool) -> Tuple[str, str, str, str]:
+    if pdf_file is None:
+        return "", "", "", "⚠️ Please upload a PDF first."
+
+    pipeline = PaperPipeline(
+        pdf_engine=engine,
+        include_extraction=True,
+        include_llm_pack=include_llm_pack,
+    )
+
+    try:
+        result = pipeline.run(pdf_file.name if hasattr(pdf_file, "name") else pdf_file)
+    except Exception as exc:
+        return "", "", "", f"❌ Error: {exc}"
+
+    overview = _build_overview(result)
+    details = _build_extraction_details(result)
+    card_preview = {
+        k: v for k, v in result["paper_card"].items()
+        if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+    }
+    json_preview = json.dumps(card_preview, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
+    score = result["extraction"].get("quality", {}).get("quality_score", 0.0)
+    status = f"✅ Done — section-aware extraction quality: {score:.2f}"
+    return overview, details, json_preview, status
+
+
+def download_json(pdf_file: Any, engine: str, include_llm_pack: bool) -> str | None:
+    if pdf_file is None:
+        return None
+    pipeline = PaperPipeline(
+        pdf_engine=engine,
+        include_extraction=True,
+        include_llm_pack=include_llm_pack,
+    )
+    try:
+        result = pipeline.run(pdf_file.name if hasattr(pdf_file, "name") else pdf_file)
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+    tmp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".json", delete=False, mode="w", encoding="utf-8")
+    json.dump(result["paper_card"], tmp, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
+    tmp.close()
+    return tmp.name
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# UI
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def build_ui() -> gr.Blocks:
+    with gr.Blocks(title="Paper2Lab", theme=gr.themes.Soft()) as demo:
+        gr.Markdown("# 📄 Paper2Lab — Section-Aware Academic Paper Extractor")
+        gr.Markdown(
+            "Upload a research paper PDF. The pipeline detects section headers, removes references from body text, "
+            "and builds a structured paper card ready for later Nemotron refinement."
+        )
+
+        with gr.Row():
+            with gr.Column(scale=1):
+                pdf_input = gr.File(label="Upload PDF", file_types=[".pdf"])
+                engine = gr.Radio(
+                    choices=["pymupdf", "docling", "auto"],
+                    value="pymupdf",
+                    label="Extraction engine",
+                    info="pymupdf = fast; docling = optional complex-layout engine; auto = compare quality",
+                )
+                include_llm_pack = gr.Checkbox(
+                    label="Include llm_evidence_pack",
+                    value=True,
+                    info="Useful for later Nemotron/LLM refinement; turn off for simpler JSON.",
+                )
+                run_btn = gr.Button("▶ Extract", variant="primary")
+                status_box = gr.Textbox(label="Status", interactive=False)
+                download_btn = gr.Button("⬇ Download Paper Card JSON")
+                download_file = gr.File(label="JSON download", interactive=False)
+
+            with gr.Column(scale=2):
+                with gr.Tabs():
+                    with gr.Tab("📋 Paper Card"):
+                        overview_md = gr.Markdown()
+                    with gr.Tab("🔬 Extraction Details"):
+                        details_md = gr.Markdown()
+                    with gr.Tab("{ } JSON Preview"):
+                        json_box = gr.Code(language="json", interactive=False)
+
+        run_btn.click(
+            fn=process_pdf,
+            inputs=[pdf_input, engine, include_llm_pack],
+            outputs=[overview_md, details_md, json_box, status_box],
+        )
+        download_btn.click(
+            fn=download_json,
+            inputs=[pdf_input, engine, include_llm_pack],
+            outputs=download_file,
+        )
+    return demo
+
+
+pipeline = PaperPipeline(pdf_engine="pymupdf")
+
+
+def process_pdf_simple(pdf_file: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    if pdf_file is None:
+        return {"error": "No PDF uploaded"}
+    return pipeline.run(pdf_file.name if hasattr(pdf_file, "name") else pdf_file)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ui = build_ui()
+    ui.launch(share=False)

src/paper2lab/inference/lab_starter_kit.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
+
+
+
+
+KNOWN_SOURCE_NAMES = [
+    "PubMed",
+    "Scopus",
+    "Web of Knowledge",
+    "Web of Science",
+    "ERIC",
+    "Educational Resources and Information Center",
+    "Cochrane",
+    "Embase",
+    "MEDLINE",
+    "Google Scholar",
+]
+
+
+def _clean_sources(items: List[str]) -> List[str]:
+    text = " ".join(str(x) for x in items).lower()
+    found = []
+
+    for name in KNOWN_SOURCE_NAMES:
+        if name.lower() in text:
+            found.append(name)
+
+    if found:
+        return _dedupe(found)
+
+    # Fallback: keep only short source-like entries.
+    return _dedupe([
+        x for x in items
+        if len(str(x).split()) <= 6
+    ])
+
+def _dedupe(items: List[str]) -> List[str]:
+    seen = set()
+    out = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        item = str(item).strip()
+        key = item.lower()
+
+        if item and key not in seen:
+            seen.add(key)
+            out.append(item)
+
+    return out
+
+
+def _as_list(value: Any) -> List[str]:
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        return [str(x).strip() for x in value if str(x).strip()]
+    if value:
+        return [str(value).strip()]
+    return []
+
+
+def _roadmap_list(roadmap: Dict[str, Any], key: str) -> List[str]:
+    value = roadmap.get(key, [])
+
+    if not isinstance(value, list):
+        return _as_list(value)
+
+    out: List[str] = []
+
+    for item in value:
+        if isinstance(item, dict):
+            desc = item.get("description") or item.get("text") or item.get("step")
+            if desc:
+                out.append(str(desc).strip())
+        elif item:
+            out.append(str(item).strip())
+
+    return _dedupe(out)
+
+
+def build_lab_starter_kit(paper_card: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    paper_type = (paper_card.get("paper_type") or "general_research").lower()
+
+    roadmap = paper_card.get("reproduction_roadmap", {}) or {}
+
+    datasets = _as_list(paper_card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"))
+    methods = _as_list(paper_card.get("models_or_methods"))
+    methodology = _as_list(paper_card.get("methodology"))
+    metrics = _as_list(paper_card.get("metrics_or_measurements"))
+    missing = _as_list(paper_card.get("missing_reproducibility_info"))
+
+    roadmap_datasets = _roadmap_list(roadmap, "datasets") if isinstance(roadmap, dict) else []
+    roadmap_eval = _roadmap_list(roadmap, "evaluation_procedure") if isinstance(roadmap, dict) else []
+    roadmap_steps = _roadmap_list(roadmap, "experimental_steps") if isinstance(roadmap, dict) else []
+
+    if not datasets and roadmap_datasets:
+        datasets = roadmap_datasets
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        datasets = _clean_sources(datasets)
+
+    blob = " ".join(datasets + methods + methodology + metrics).lower()
+
+    base_structure = [
+        "paper2lab_project/",
+        "paper2lab_project/data/",
+        "paper2lab_project/configs/",
+        "paper2lab_project/src/",
+        "paper2lab_project/outputs/",
+        "paper2lab_project/README.md",
+    ]
+
+    base_requirements = [
+        "python>=3.10",
+        "numpy",
+        "pandas",
+        "matplotlib",
+    ]
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Machine-learning papers
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        deps = base_requirements + ["scikit-learn"]
+
+        if any(x in blob for x in ["transformer", "bert", "gpt", "neural", "attention", "pytorch"]):
+            deps += ["torch", "transformers", "datasets", "tokenizers", "evaluate"]
+
+        if any(x in blob for x in ["tensorflow", "keras"]):
+            deps.append("tensorflow")
+
+        if any(x in blob for x in ["bleu", "translation", "wmt"]):
+            deps += ["sacrebleu", "sentencepiece"]
+
+        hyperparams = [
+            item for item in methodology
+            if any(k in item.lower() for k in [
+                "learning rate",
+                "batch",
+                "epoch",
+                "optimizer",
+                "dropout",
+                "warmup",
+                "steps",
+                "gpu",
+                "label smoothing",
+            ])
+        ]
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "machine_learning",
+            "project_structure": base_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/raw/",
+                "paper2lab_project/data/processed/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/preprocess.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/train.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/evaluate.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/configs/train_config.yaml",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": _dedupe(deps),
+            "dataset_plan": datasets or ["Dataset/source not clearly specified."],
+            "training_configuration": {
+                "model_or_method": methods[:6] or ["Model/method not clearly specified."],
+                "hyperparameters": hyperparams or [
+                    "Hyperparameters are incomplete or not clearly specified."
+                ],
+            },
+            "experiment_checklist": roadmap_steps or [
+                "Download or prepare the reported datasets.",
+                "Reproduce preprocessing/tokenization steps.",
+                "Implement the reported model or method.",
+                "Configure training hyperparameters.",
+                "Run training or analysis pipeline.",
+                "Evaluate using the reported metrics.",
+                "Compare reproduced outputs with paper results.",
+                "Document missing details and deviations.",
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or roadmap_eval or ["Evaluation metrics not clearly specified."],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Systematic reviews / meta-analyses / scoping reviews
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        deps = base_requirements + ["openpyxl", "python-docx"]
+
+        inclusion_exclusion = [
+            item for item in methodology
+            if any(k in item.lower() for k in [
+                "inclusion",
+                "exclusion",
+                "eligibility",
+                "criteria",
+            ])
+        ]
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "systematic_review",
+            "project_structure": base_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/search_results/",
+                "paper2lab_project/data/screening/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/search_strategy.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/deduplicate.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/screening_table.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/quality_assessment.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/prisma_flow.md",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/synthesis_report.md",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": _dedupe(deps),
+            "search_strategy": datasets or ["Bibliographic databases not clearly specified."],
+            "screening_checklist": roadmap_steps or [
+                "Define search query and date range.",
+                "Export records from each database.",
+                "Remove duplicate records.",
+                "Screen titles and abstracts.",
+                "Review full texts.",
+                "Apply inclusion criteria.",
+                "Apply exclusion criteria.",
+                "Record reasons for exclusion.",
+                "Build PRISMA-style flow summary.",
+            ],
+            "inclusion_exclusion_criteria": inclusion_exclusion or [
+                "Inclusion/exclusion criteria not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "quality_assessment_tools": methods or [
+                "Quality assessment tool not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or roadmap_eval or [
+                "Number of records identified.",
+                "Number of included studies.",
+                "Quality assessment summary.",
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Clinical studies
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    if paper_type == "clinical_study":
+        deps = base_requirements + ["scipy", "statsmodels", "openpyxl"]
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "clinical_study",
+            "project_structure": base_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/raw/",
+                "paper2lab_project/data/processed/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/cohort_selection.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/statistical_analysis.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/outcome_analysis.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/tables/",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": _dedupe(deps),
+            "cohort_design": {
+                "population_or_data_source": datasets or [
+                    "Cohort/data source not clearly specified."
+                ],
+                "outcomes": metrics or [
+                    "Clinical outcomes/endpoints not clearly specified."
+                ],
+            },
+            "data_collection_plan": methodology or [
+                "Data collection procedure not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "analysis_plan": methods or [
+                "Statistical analysis method not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or roadmap_eval or [
+                "Outcome measurement plan not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Surveys, narrative reviews, guides, reports
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    if paper_type in {"survey_paper", "review_paper", "survey_study", "guide_or_report", "survey_or_review"}:
+        deps = base_requirements + ["openpyxl", "python-docx"]
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "survey_or_review",
+            "project_structure": base_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/literature/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/literature_mapping.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/comparison_matrix.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/synthesis_report.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/comparison_matrix.xlsx",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": _dedupe(deps),
+            "literature_mapping_plan": datasets or [
+                "Literature sources not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "survey_dimensions": methodology or [
+                "Survey/review dimensions not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "comparison_framework": methods or [
+                "Comparison framework not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or roadmap_eval or [
+                "Synthesis/evaluation criteria not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Generic fallback
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    return {
+        "starter_type": "general_research",
+        "project_structure": base_structure + [
+            "paper2lab_project/src/reproduce.py",
+            "paper2lab_project/src/evaluate.py",
+            "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+        ],
+        "requirements_txt": _dedupe(base_requirements),
+        "dataset_plan": datasets or ["Dataset/source not clearly specified."],
+        "method_or_procedure": methodology or methods or [
+            "Method/procedure not clearly specified."
+        ],
+        "evaluation_plan": metrics or roadmap_eval or ["Evaluation metrics not clearly specified."],
+        "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+    }

src/paper2lab/inference/nemotron_refiner.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import copy
+import json
+import os
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
+
+import requests
+
+
+NVIDIA_CHAT_URL = "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions"
+DEFAULT_MODEL = "nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b"
+
+
+LIST_FIELDS = [
+    "contributions",
+    "methodology",
+    "datasets_or_data_sources",
+    "models_or_methods",
+    "metrics_or_measurements",
+    "key_findings",
+    "limitations",
+    "missing_reproducibility_info",
+]
+
+
+def _clean_string(value: Any) -> str:
+    text = str(value or "").strip()
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _extract_json(text: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    text = text.strip()
+    text = re.sub(r"^```json", "", text).strip()
+    text = re.sub(r"^```", "", text).strip()
+    text = re.sub(r"```$", "", text).strip()
+
+    try:
+        return json.loads(text)
+    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+        match = re.search(r"\{.*\}", text, flags=re.DOTALL)
+        if not match:
+            raise ValueError("Nemotron returned invalid JSON.")
+        return json.loads(match.group(0))
+
+
+def _clean_list(items: Any, max_items: int = 10) -> List[str]:
+    if not isinstance(items, list):
+        return []
+
+    out: List[str] = []
+    seen = set()
+
+    for item in items:
+        if isinstance(item, dict):
+            item = (
+                item.get("value")
+                or item.get("description")
+                or item.get("text")
+                or item.get("summary")
+                or ""
+            )
+
+        text = _clean_string(item)
+        key = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", text.lower()).strip()
+
+        if not text or key in seen:
+            continue
+
+        seen.add(key)
+        out.append(text)
+
+        if len(out) >= max_items:
+            break
+
+    return out
+
+
+def _filter_datasets(items: List[str]) -> List[str]:
+    canonical_sources = {
+        "pubmed": "PubMed",
+        "scopus": "Scopus",
+        "web of knowledge": "Web of Knowledge",
+        "web of science": "Web of Science",
+        "google scholar": "Google Scholar",
+        "cochrane": "Cochrane",
+        "cochrane library": "Cochrane Library",
+        "embase": "Embase",
+        "medline": "MEDLINE",
+        "eric": "ERIC",
+        "clinicaltrials": "ClinicalTrials.gov",
+    }
+
+    hard_reject = [
+        "limitation", "limitations", "ecological design", "classification",
+        "spatial", "temporal", "errors", "overfitting", "pseudo-accuracy",
+        "beam size", "during inference", "dropout", "optimizer",
+        "learning rate", "attention key size",
+    ]
+
+    model_only = {
+        "rnn", "lstm", "gru", "transformer", "parser",
+        "berkeleyparser", "berkleyparser", "baseline",
+        "architecture", "model",
+    }
+
+    found: List[str] = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        clean = _clean_string(item)
+        low = clean.lower()
+
+        if not clean:
+            continue
+
+        if any(bad in low for bad in hard_reject):
+            continue
+
+        if low in model_only:
+            continue
+
+        # Canonical exact/word-boundary source extraction.
+        for key, label in canonical_sources.items():
+            if re.search(rf"(?<![a-z0-9]){re.escape(key)}(?![a-z0-9])", low):
+                found.append(label)
+
+        # Keep short explicit dataset/source phrases only.
+        if len(clean.split()) <= 8 and re.search(
+            r"\b(dataset|corpus|benchmark|database|registry|repository|cohort|records|patients|participants)\b",
+            low,
+        ):
+            found.append(clean)
+
+    return list(dict.fromkeys(found))
+
+
+def _build_lab_starter_kit(card: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    paper_type = (card.get("paper_type") or "general_research").lower()
+
+    datasets = card.get("datasets_or_data_sources") or []
+    methods = card.get("models_or_methods") or []
+    methodology = card.get("methodology") or []
+    metrics = card.get("metrics_or_measurements") or []
+    missing = card.get("missing_reproducibility_info") or []
+    roadmap = card.get("reproduction_roadmap") or {}
+
+    # Prefer roadmap datasets when card datasets are empty.
+    roadmap_datasets = roadmap.get("datasets") if isinstance(roadmap, dict) else []
+    if not datasets and isinstance(roadmap_datasets, list):
+        datasets = roadmap_datasets
+
+    blob = " ".join(
+        str(x) for x in (datasets + methods + methodology + metrics)
+    ).lower()
+
+    base_project_structure = [
+        "paper2lab_project/",
+        "paper2lab_project/data/",
+        "paper2lab_project/configs/",
+        "paper2lab_project/src/",
+        "paper2lab_project/outputs/",
+        "paper2lab_project/README.md",
+    ]
+
+    requirements = [
+        "python>=3.10",
+        "numpy",
+        "pandas",
+        "matplotlib",
+    ]
+
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        ml_requirements = requirements + [
+            "scikit-learn",
+        ]
+
+        if any(x in blob for x in ["transformer", "attention", "bert", "gpt", "neural", "pytorch"]):
+            ml_requirements += [
+                "torch",
+                "transformers",
+                "datasets",
+                "tokenizers",
+                "evaluate",
+            ]
+
+        if "tensorflow" in blob or "keras" in blob:
+            ml_requirements.append("tensorflow")
+
+        if any(x in blob for x in ["bleu", "translation", "wmt"]):
+            ml_requirements += ["sacrebleu", "sentencepiece"]
+
+        ml_requirements = list(dict.fromkeys(ml_requirements))
+
+        hyperparams = [
+            x for x in methodology
+            if any(k in x.lower() for k in [
+                "learning rate", "batch", "epoch", "optimizer",
+                "dropout", "warmup", "steps", "gpu", "label smoothing"
+            ])
+        ]
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "machine_learning",
+            "project_structure": base_project_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/src/preprocess.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/train.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/evaluate.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/configs/train_config.yaml",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": ml_requirements,
+            "dataset_plan": datasets or ["Dataset/source not clearly specified."],
+            "training_configuration": {
+                "model_or_method": methods[:6] or ["Model/method not clearly specified."],
+                "hyperparameters": hyperparams or [
+                    "Hyperparameters are incomplete or not clearly specified."
+                ],
+            },
+            "experiment_checklist": [
+                "Download or prepare the reported datasets.",
+                "Reproduce preprocessing/tokenization steps.",
+                "Implement the reported model or method.",
+                "Configure training hyperparameters.",
+                "Run training or analysis pipeline.",
+                "Evaluate using the reported metrics.",
+                "Compare reproduced outputs with paper results.",
+                "Document missing details and deviations.",
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or ["Evaluation metrics not clearly specified."],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        review_requirements = list(dict.fromkeys(requirements + [
+            "openpyxl",
+            "python-docx",
+        ]))
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "systematic_review",
+            "project_structure": base_project_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/search_results/",
+                "paper2lab_project/data/screening/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/search_strategy.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/deduplicate.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/screening_table.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/quality_assessment.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/prisma_flow.md",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": review_requirements,
+            "search_strategy": datasets or ["Bibliographic databases not clearly specified."],
+            "screening_checklist": [
+                "Define search query and date range.",
+                "Export records from each database.",
+                "Remove duplicate records.",
+                "Screen titles and abstracts.",
+                "Review full texts.",
+                "Apply inclusion criteria.",
+                "Apply exclusion criteria.",
+                "Record reasons for exclusion.",
+                "Build PRISMA-style flow summary.",
+            ],
+            "inclusion_exclusion_criteria": [
+                x for x in methodology
+                if any(k in x.lower() for k in [
+                    "inclusion", "exclusion", "eligibility", "criteria"
+                ])
+            ] or ["Inclusion/exclusion criteria not clearly specified."],
+            "quality_assessment_tools": methods or [
+                "Quality assessment tool not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or [
+                "Number of records identified.",
+                "Number of included studies.",
+                "Quality assessment summary.",
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    if paper_type == "clinical_study":
+        clinical_requirements = list(dict.fromkeys(requirements + [
+            "scipy",
+            "statsmodels",
+            "openpyxl",
+        ]))
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "clinical_study",
+            "project_structure": base_project_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/raw/",
+                "paper2lab_project/data/processed/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/cohort_selection.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/statistical_analysis.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/outcome_analysis.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/tables/",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": clinical_requirements,
+            "cohort_design": {
+                "population_or_data_source": datasets or [
+                    "Cohort/data source not clearly specified."
+                ],
+                "outcomes": metrics or [
+                    "Clinical outcomes/endpoints not clearly specified."
+                ],
+            },
+            "data_collection_plan": methodology or [
+                "Data collection procedure not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "analysis_plan": methods or [
+                "Statistical analysis method not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or [
+                "Outcome measurement plan not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    if paper_type in {"survey_paper", "review_paper", "survey_study", "guide_or_report"}:
+        survey_requirements = list(dict.fromkeys(requirements + [
+            "openpyxl",
+            "python-docx",
+        ]))
+
+        return {
+            "starter_type": "survey_or_review",
+            "project_structure": base_project_structure + [
+                "paper2lab_project/data/literature/",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/literature_mapping.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/comparison_matrix.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/src/synthesis_report.py",
+                "paper2lab_project/outputs/comparison_matrix.xlsx",
+                "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+            ],
+            "requirements_txt": survey_requirements,
+            "literature_mapping_plan": datasets or [
+                "Literature sources not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "survey_dimensions": methodology or [
+                "Survey/review dimensions not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "comparison_framework": methods or [
+                "Comparison framework not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "evaluation_plan": metrics or [
+                "Synthesis/evaluation criteria not clearly specified."
+            ],
+            "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+        }
+
+    return {
+        "starter_type": "general_research",
+        "project_structure": base_project_structure + [
+            "paper2lab_project/src/reproduce.py",
+            "paper2lab_project/src/evaluate.py",
+            "paper2lab_project/requirements.txt",
+        ],
+        "requirements_txt": list(dict.fromkeys(requirements)),
+        "dataset_plan": datasets or ["Dataset/source not clearly specified."],
+        "method_or_procedure": methodology or methods or [
+            "Method/procedure not clearly specified."
+        ],
+        "evaluation_plan": metrics or ["Evaluation metrics not clearly specified."],
+        "reproducibility_risks": missing or ["No major missing information detected."],
+    }
+
+
+def _compact_evidence_pack(pack: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    candidate = copy.deepcopy(pack.get("candidate_paper_card", {}))
+
+    compact_sections = []
+    for sec in pack.get("section_previews", [])[:12]:
+        compact_sections.append({
+            "title": sec.get("title"),
+            "role_hint": sec.get("role_hint"),
+            "page_start": sec.get("page_start"),
+            "page_end": sec.get("page_end"),
+            "preview": _clean_string(sec.get("preview", ""))[:1800],
+        })
+
+    return {
+        "candidate_paper_card": candidate,
+        "section_previews": compact_sections,
+        "captions": pack.get("captions", [])[:8],
+        "tables": pack.get("tables", [])[:3],
+        "metadata": pack.get("metadata", {}),
+    }
+
+
+def validate_refined_card(refined: Dict[str, Any], fallback: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    final = copy.deepcopy(fallback)
+
+    for key, value in refined.items():
+        if key == "llm_evidence_pack":
+            continue
+        final[key] = value
+
+    for field in LIST_FIELDS:
+        final[field] = _clean_list(final.get(field))
+
+    final["datasets_or_data_sources"] = _filter_datasets(
+        final.get("datasets_or_data_sources", [])
+    )
+
+    final["title"] = _clean_string(final.get("title")) or fallback.get("title")
+    final["field"] = _clean_string(final.get("field")) or fallback.get("field")
+    final["paper_type"] = _clean_string(final.get("paper_type")) or fallback.get("paper_type")
+    final["research_question"] = (
+        _clean_string(final.get("research_question"))
+        or fallback.get("research_question")
+    )
+
+    final["annotation_version"] = fallback.get("annotation_version", "v1.0")
+    final["source_pdf"] = fallback.get("source_pdf")
+    final["metadata"] = fallback.get("metadata", {})
+
+    if not isinstance(final.get("lab_starter_kit"), dict):
+        final["lab_starter_kit"] = _build_lab_starter_kit(final)
+    if not isinstance(final.get("lab_starter_kit"), dict):
+        final["lab_starter_kit"] = _build_lab_starter_kit(final)
+    return final
+
+
+def diff_cards(before: Dict[str, Any], after: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    changed, added, removed = [], [], []
+
+    for key in sorted(set(before.keys()) | set(after.keys())):
+        if key == "llm_evidence_pack":
+            continue
+        if key not in before:
+            added.append(key)
+        elif key not in after:
+            removed.append(key)
+        elif before.get(key) != after.get(key):
+            changed.append(key)
+
+    return {
+        "changed_fields": changed,
+        "added_fields": added,
+        "removed_fields": removed,
+    }
+
+
+def _call_nvidia(prompt: str, model: str, timeout: int = 180) -> str:
+    api_key = (
+        os.getenv("NVIDIA_API_KEY")
+        or os.getenv("NVIDIA_API_KEY".lower())
+        or os.getenv("nvidia-api-key")
+    )
+
+    if not api_key:
+        raise RuntimeError("Missing NVIDIA_API_KEY. Set it in your environment before using refinement_mode='nemotron'.")
+
+    payload = {
+        "model": model,
+        "messages": [
+            {
+                "role": "system",
+                "content": "You are a precise scientific JSON refiner. Return only valid JSON. No markdown.",
+            },
+            {
+                "role": "user",
+                "content": prompt,
+            },
+        ],
+        "temperature": 0.1,
+        "top_p": 0.7,
+        "max_tokens": 8192,
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(
+        NVIDIA_CHAT_URL,
+        headers={
+            "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}",
+            "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        },
+        json=payload,
+        timeout=timeout,
+    )
+
+    if not response.ok:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"NVIDIA API error {response.status_code}: {response.text[:1000]}"
+        )
+
+    data = response.json()
+
+    try:
+        return data["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
+    except Exception as exc:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected NVIDIA response: {data}") from exc
+
+
+def refine_with_nemotron(
+    llm_evidence_pack: Dict[str, Any],
+    model: str = DEFAULT_MODEL,
+    return_comparison: bool = True,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    if "candidate_paper_card" not in llm_evidence_pack:
+        raise ValueError("llm_evidence_pack must contain candidate_paper_card.")
+
+    compact_pack = _compact_evidence_pack(llm_evidence_pack)
+    before = copy.deepcopy(compact_pack["candidate_paper_card"])
+
+    prompt = f"""
+You are Paper2Lab.
+
+Refine candidate_paper_card using ONLY the provided evidence.
+
+Return ONLY valid JSON.
+
+Strict rules:
+- Do not invent facts.
+- Do not add facts that are not in the evidence pack.
+- Remove boilerplate, references, author contributions, affiliations, acknowledgements, and duplicate claims.
+- datasets_or_data_sources must contain only real datasets, corpora, benchmarks, databases, or data sources.
+- Do NOT put models, parsers, methods, architectures, baselines, algorithms, or metrics in datasets_or_data_sources.
+- Preserve annotation_version.
+- Preserve source_pdf.
+- Keep outputs concise.
+- If evidence is insufficient, use [] or null.
+- Add or improve lab_starter_kit.
+
+Return a compact JSON object with ONLY these keys:
+- title
+- field
+- paper_type
+- research_question
+- contributions
+- methodology
+- datasets_or_data_sources
+- models_or_methods
+- metrics_or_measurements
+- key_findings
+- limitations
+- missing_reproducibility_info
+- reproduction_roadmap
+- reproducibility_score
+- lab_starter_kit
+- source_pdf
+- annotation_version
+
+Do not return metadata.
+Do not return long nested evidence_terms.
+Do not repeat large diagnostics objects.
+Keep every list to maximum 6 items.
+
+Evidence pack:
+{json.dumps(compact_pack, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)}
+""".strip()
+
+    raw = _call_nvidia(prompt=prompt, model=model)
+
+    try:
+        refined_raw = _extract_json(raw)
+    except Exception as exc:
+        return {
+            "status": "error",
+            "model": model,
+            "error": str(exc),
+            "before_refinement": before,
+            "raw_model_output": raw,
+        }
+
+    after = validate_refined_card(refined_raw, before)
+
+    if not return_comparison:
+        return after
+
+    return {
+        "status": "ok",
+        "model": model,
+        "before_refinement": before,
+        "after_refinement": after,
+        "diff_summary": diff_cards(before, after),
+    }

src/paper2lab/inference/paper_card.py

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+"""
+paper_card.py — Dynamic section-aware rule-based paper card builder for Paper2Lab.
+
+Purpose
+-------
+Builds a clean candidate paper card before LLM/Nemotron refinement.
+
+Design principles
+-----------------
+- Uses extraction-safe clean_text from pdf_loader.py.
+- Uses structured sections and roles instead of raw full-PDF text whenever possible.
+- Detects paper_type first, then chooses extraction strategy.
+- Avoids ML-only assumptions for systematic reviews, clinical studies, surveys, and reports.
+- Keeps references/appendix/boilerplate out of candidate fields.
+- Produces llm_evidence_pack for later Modal/Nemotron refinement.
+
+Public API
+----------
+build_paper_card(extracted: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import re
+from collections import Counter
+from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Tuple
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Pattern banks
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+MODEL_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\btransformer\b", r"\bself[- ]attention\b", r"\bmulti[- ]head attention\b",
+    r"\bscaled dot[- ]product attention\b", r"\bencoder[- ]decoder\b",
+    r"\bcnn\b", r"\bconvolutional neural network\b", r"\bu[- ]net\b",
+    r"\bbert\b", r"\bgpt\b", r"\bllm\b", r"\blarge language model\b",
+    r"\bvision transformer\b", r"\bvit\b", r"\bdiffusion model\b", r"\bgan\b",
+    r"\bresnet\b", r"\blstm\b", r"\bgru\b", r"\bsvm\b", r"\brandom forest\b",
+    r"\bxgboost\b", r"\blightgbm\b", r"\blogistic regression\b",
+    r"\blinear regression\b", r"\bgraph neural network\b", r"\bgnn\b", r"\brag\b",
+]
+
+ML_DATASET_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\bwmt\s*\d{4}\b", r"\bwsj\b", r"\bwall street journal\b", r"\bpenn treebank\b",
+    r"\bcifar[- ]?\d+\b", r"\bimagenet\b", r"\bmnist\b", r"\bcoco\b",
+    r"\bglue\b", r"\bsuperglue\b", r"\bsquad\b", r"\bbookscorpus\b",
+    r"\bwikipedia\b", r"\bcommonvoice\b", r"\blibrispeech\b",
+    r"\b\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*(?:m|million|b|billion|k|thousand)?\s*"
+    r"(?:sentence pairs|sentences|tokens|images|patients|samples|records|documents|cases|examples|instances)\b",
+    r"\btraining data\b", r"\btraining dataset\b", r"\bvalidation set\b", r"\btest set\b",
+    r"\bdataset\b", r"\bdata source\b", r"\bclinical data\b", r"\bpublic dataset\b", r"\bbenchmark\b",
+]
+
+REVIEW_SOURCE_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\bpubmed\b", r"\bscopus\b", r"\bweb of knowledge\b", r"\bweb of science\b",
+    r"\beric\b", r"\beducational resources and information center\b",
+    r"\bcochrane\b", r"\bembase\b", r"\bmedline\b", r"\bgoogle scholar\b",
+    r"\bdatabases?\b", r"\barticles?\b", r"\bstudies\b", r"\bpublications?\b",
+    r"\brecords identified\b", r"\bselected studies\b", r"\bincluded studies\b",
+    r"\bgray literature\b", r"\bgrey literature\b",
+]
+
+METHODOLOGY_PATTERNS = [
+    # ML / computational methods
+    r"\bwe (?:train|trained|fine[- ]?tune|fine[- ]?tuned|evaluate|evaluated|optimize|optimized|pre[- ]?train|pre[- ]?trained)\b",
+    r"\bmodel (?:architecture|consists|uses|contains|is trained|was trained)\b",
+    r"\barchitecture\b", r"\btraining procedure\b", r"\bexperimental setup\b",
+    r"\boptimizer\b", r"\badamw?\b", r"\bsgd\b", r"\blearning rate\b",
+    r"\bbatch size\b", r"\bepoch\b", r"\bwarm[- ]?up\b", r"\bscheduler\b",
+    r"\bdropout\b", r"\blayer normalization\b", r"\bbatch normalization\b", r"\bweight decay\b",
+    r"\btokenization\b", r"\bbyte[- ]pair encoding\b", r"\bpositional encoding\b",
+    r"\bself[- ]attention\b", r"\bscaled dot[- ]product attention\b", r"\bmulti[- ]head attention\b",
+    r"\bcross[- ]validation\b", r"\btrain[- ]test split\b", r"\brandom seed\b",
+    r"\bpre[- ]?processed\b", r"\baugmentation\b",
+    # General empirical / review methods
+    r"\bsystematic review\b", r"\bliterature review\b", r"\bscoping review\b",
+    r"\bdatabases? (?:were|was) searched\b", r"\bsearched\b",
+    r"\binclusion criteria\b", r"\bexclusion criteria\b", r"\beligibility criteria\b",
+    r"\bscreen(?:ed|ing)\b", r"\bstudies were selected\b", r"\bdata extraction\b",
+    r"\bstudy design\b", r"\bparticipants\b", r"\bprocedure\b", r"\bintervention\b",
+]
+
+METRIC_PATTERNS = [
+    # ML/AI metrics
+    r"\bbleu\b", r"\bperplexity\b", r"\baccuracy\b", r"\bprecision\b", r"\brecall\b",
+    r"\bf1[- ]?score\b", r"\bf1\b", r"\bauc\b", r"\broc\b", r"\bsensitivity\b",
+    r"\bspecificity\b", r"\brmse\b", r"\bmae\b", r"\bmse\b", r"\br\s*[²2]\b",
+    r"\bmap\b", r"\biou\b", r"\bwer\b", r"\bcer\b", r"\brouge\b", r"\bbertscore\b",
+    r"\bloss\b", r"\bcross[- ]entropy\b",
+    # Review / clinical / social-science measurement patterns
+    r"\b\d+\s+(?:articles|studies|records|participants|patients|students)\b",
+    r"\bfinal review included\b", r"\bwere enrolled\b", r"\bselected for further review\b",
+    r"\bbetween\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\s+and\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\b",
+    r"\bfrom\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\s+to\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\b",
+]
+
+FINDING_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\bachieves?\b", r"\boutperforms?\b", r"\bimproves?\b", r"\bincreases?\b",
+    r"\bdecreases?\b", r"\bstate[- ]of[- ]the[- ]art\b", r"\bresults show\b",
+    r"\bfindings show\b", r"\bsignificantly\b", r"\bsuperior\b", r"\bcomparable\b",
+    r"\bconsistently\b", r"\bobtains?\b", r"\bshowed that\b", r"\bfound that\b",
+    r"\bpositive (?:responses|attitudes|effects|outcomes)\b", r"\bwas effective\b",
+]
+
+CONTRIBUTION_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\bwe propose\b", r"\bwe introduce\b", r"\bwe present\b", r"\bwe develop\b",
+    r"\bwe designed\b", r"\bwe show\b", r"\bwe demonstrate\b", r"\bwe release\b",
+    r"\bwe open[- ]source\b", r"\bthis paper proposes\b", r"\bthis work proposes\b",
+    r"\bthis study developed\b", r"\bour contribution\b", r"\bour main contribution\b",
+    r"\bnovel\b", r"\bfirst to\b", r"\bfirst systematic review\b",
+]
+
+LIMITATION_PATTERNS = [
+    r"\blimitation\b", r"\blimitations\b", r"\bfuture work\b", r"\bmore data\b",
+    r"\bsmall dataset\b", r"\bfalse[- ]positive\b", r"\bfalse[- ]negative\b",
+    r"\bnot sufficient\b", r"\blacking\b", r"\bwe did not\b", r"\bcannot\b",
+    r"\bwe leave\b", r"\bdoes not generalize\b", r"\bbias\b", r"\boutside the scope\b",
+    r"\bnot evaluated\b", r"\bnot tested\b", r"\black of\b", r"\bmay have led to bias\b",
+]
+
+NOISE_MARKERS = [
+    "acknowledgement", "acknowledgment", "author contribution", "competing interests",
+    "correspondence", "publisher", "open access", "license", "copyright", "gmail.com",
+    "references", "bibliography", "arxiv:", "how to cite", "access this article online",
+    "quick response code", "website:", "doi:", "www.", "http://", "https://",
+    # Known author-contribution noise from some papers
+    "llion also experimented", "jakob proposed", "ashish", "noam proposed", "niki selected",
+    "aidan designed", "illia", "google brain",
+]
+
+AFFILIATION_MARKERS = [
+    "department of", "university of", "faculty of", "school of", "institute of",
+    "medical sciences", "corresponding author", "email", "journal of education",
+]
+
+_FIELD_REJECT: Dict[str, List[str]] = {
+    "contributions": ["author", "google brain", "also experimented", "selected work", "department of"],
+    "datasets_or_data_sources": [
+        "achieves", "outperforms", "state-of-the-art", "results show", "during inference",
+        "beam size", "parser training", "section 23", "table 4", "department of",
+    ],
+    "models_or_methods": ["author", "university", "gmail", "in the following sections", "references"],
+    "methodology": ["in the following sections", "to the best of our knowledge", "references"],
+    "findings": ["table of contents", "during inference", "parser training", "references"],
+}
+
+ML_DATASET_MUST_CONTAIN = [
+    "dataset", "data", "wmt", "wsj", "wall street journal", "penn treebank", "bookcorpus",
+    "wikipedia", "sentence pairs", "sentences", "tokens", "images", "patients", "samples",
+    "records", "cases", "examples", "instances", "benchmark", "training set", "test set",
+    "validation set", "english-german", "english-french",
+]
+
+REVIEW_SOURCE_MUST_CONTAIN = [
+    "pubmed", "scopus", "web of knowledge", "web of science",
+    "educational resources", "cochrane", "embase", "medline",
+    "google scholar", "database", "databases", "studies",
+    "articles", "publications", "records", "gray literature", "grey literature",
+]
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Generic utilities
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _strip_doi_noise(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = re.sub(r"\bdoi\s*[:：]?\s*10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", " ", text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+    text = re.sub(r"\b10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", " ", text)
+    return text
+
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = text.replace("\x00", " ").replace("\u00a0", " ")
+    text = text.replace("\ufb01", "fi").replace("\ufb02", "fl")
+    text = text.replace("\u2013", "-").replace("\u2014", "-")
+    text = text.replace("\u2018", "'").replace("\u2019", "'")
+    text = text.replace("\u201c", '"').replace("\u201d", '"')
+    text = _strip_doi_noise(text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    return text.strip()
+
+
+def _normalize_key(text: str) -> str:
+    return re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", _clean(text).lower()).strip()
+
+
+def _bad_sentence_quality(sentence: str) -> bool:
+    """Reject merged-column, affiliation, citation, and boilerplate artifacts."""
+    s = _clean(sentence)
+    low = s.lower()
+
+    if not s:
+        return True
+
+    if any(x in low for x in AFFILIATION_MARKERS):
+        return True
+
+    # Too many citation markers often means merged reference/body text.
+    if len(re.findall(r"\[\d+\]", s)) >= 2:
+        return True
+
+    # Known symptoms of two-column stitching / line interleaving.
+    bad_regexes = [
+        r"\bneed\s+this systematic review\b",
+        r"\bof the there\b",
+        r"\band the that\b",
+        r"\bwere as follows: being\b",
+        r"\bdata were included to improve\b",
+        r"\bto adopt a new style of learning\s*\.\s*medical courses\b",
+        r"\bfisher \(\d{4}\) discuss intended studies\b",
+    ]
+    if any(re.search(p, low) for p in bad_regexes):
+        return True
+
+    # Merged sentences are usually very long and contain unrelated cues.
+    if len(s.split()) > 55 and any(x in low for x in [
+        "students are required", "there is a good deal", "department", "university",
+        "corresponding author", "access this article",
+    ]):
+        return True
+
+    # Odd punctuation/table artifacts.
+    if s.count("|") >= 2 or s.count("%") >= 6 or s.count("@") >= 1:
+        return True
+
+    return False
+
+
+def _is_noise(sentence: str) -> bool:
+    low = sentence.lower()
+    if any(m in low for m in NOISE_MARKERS):
+        return True
+    if len(sentence.split()) > 85:
+        return True
+    if re.search(r"^\d+(?:\.\d+)*\s+[A-Z][A-Za-z ]{2,50}$", sentence):
+        return True
+    if _bad_sentence_quality(sentence):
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _split_sentences(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = _clean(text)
+    if not text:
+        return []
+    raw = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+(?=[A-Z0-9])", text)
+    sentences: List[str] = []
+    for s in raw:
+        s = _clean(s)
+        if 35 <= len(s) <= 420 and not _is_noise(s):
+            sentences.append(s)
+    return sentences
+
+
+def _dedupe(items: Iterable[str]) -> List[str]:
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    out: List[str] = []
+    for item in items:
+        item = _clean(item)
+        key = _normalize_key(item)[:220]
+        if key and key not in seen:
+            seen.add(key)
+            out.append(item)
+    return out
+
+
+def _json_safe(value: Any) -> Any:
+    try:
+        json.dumps(value)
+        return value
+    except Exception:
+        return str(value)
+
+
+def _section_title(sec: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return _clean(sec.get("title") or "")
+
+
+def _section_role(sec: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return sec.get("role") or "other"
+
+
+def _sections_by_role(
+    extracted: Dict[str, Any],
+    roles: List[str],
+    title_contains: List[str] | None = None,
+) -> str:
+    chunks: List[str] = []
+    title_contains = [t.lower() for t in (title_contains or [])]
+    paper_title = _clean(extracted.get("title") or "").lower()
+
+    blocked_roles = {"references", "appendix", "boilerplate"}
+    blocked_titles = {"front matter", "keywords", "keywords:", "table of contents"}
+
+    for sec in extracted.get("sections", []):
+        title_raw = _section_title(sec)
+        title = title_raw.lower()
+        role = _section_role(sec)
+
+        if role in blocked_roles:
+            continue
+        if title in blocked_titles:
+            continue
+        if paper_title and title == paper_title:
+            continue
+
+        if role in roles or any(t in title for t in title_contains):
+            chunks.append(sec.get("text", ""))
+
+    return "\n".join(chunks)
+
+
+def _find_sentences(
+    text: str,
+    patterns: List[str],
+    max_items: int = 8,
+    require_number: bool = False,
+) -> List[str]:
+    found: List[str] = []
+    for sentence in _split_sentences(text):
+        if require_number and not re.search(r"\d", sentence):
+            continue
+        if any(re.search(p, sentence, flags=re.IGNORECASE) for p in patterns):
+            found.append(sentence)
+        if len(found) >= max_items:
+            break
+    return _dedupe(found)
+
+
+def _filter_field(items: List[str], field: str, paper_type: str = "general_research") -> List[str]:
+    reject_terms = _FIELD_REJECT.get(field, [])
+    filtered: List[str] = []
+
+    for item in items:
+        item = _clean(item)
+        low = item.lower()
+        if not item or _is_noise(item):
+            continue
+        if any(term in low for term in reject_terms):
+            continue
+
+        if field == "datasets_or_data_sources":
+            if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+                if not any(term in low for term in REVIEW_SOURCE_MUST_CONTAIN):
+                    continue
+            else:
+                if not any(term in low for term in ML_DATASET_MUST_CONTAIN):
+                    continue
+            if any(bad in low for bad in ["beam size", "during inference", "parser training", "section 23"]):
+                continue
+
+        filtered.append(item)
+
+    return _dedupe(filtered)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Dynamic paper type and field inference
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _top_terms(text: str, k: int = 10) -> List[str]:
+    stop = {
+        "the", "and", "for", "with", "that", "this", "from", "were", "was", "are", "has",
+        "have", "had", "their", "they", "into", "using", "used", "study", "paper", "article",
+        "results", "method", "methods", "data", "based", "between", "through", "there",
+    }
+    words = re.findall(r"\b[a-z][a-z]{3,}\b", text.lower())
+    words = [w for w in words if w not in stop]
+    return [w for w, _ in Counter(words).most_common(k)]
+
+
+def _infer_paper_type(title: str, abstract: str, sections: List[Dict[str, Any]], clean_text: str) -> str:
+    title_abs = f"{title} {abstract}".lower()
+    section_titles = " ".join(_section_title(s) for s in sections).lower()
+    probe = f"{title_abs} {section_titles} {clean_text[:9000].lower()}"
+
+    review_score = 0
+    for term in [
+        "systematic review",
+        "systematic literature search",
+        "systematic literature review",
+        "literature search",
+        "literature review",
+        "prisma",
+        "study selection",
+        "bibliographic search",
+        "databases were searched",
+        "database search",
+        "included studies",
+        "included articles",
+        "screening",
+        "eligibility criteria",
+    ]:
+        if term in probe:
+            review_score += 1
+
+    if review_score >= 2:
+        return "systematic_review"
+
+    if any(x in probe for x in ["meta-analysis", "meta analysis", "scoping review"]):
+        return "systematic_review"
+    
+    narrative_review_terms = [
+        "review of important findings",
+        "review of previous research",
+        "previous research on",
+        "literature on",
+        "research on teacher education",
+        "implications for improving",
+    ]
+    if any(term in probe for term in narrative_review_terms):
+        return "survey_or_review"
+
+    if any(x in probe for x in ["randomized controlled trial", "cohort", "case-control", "clinical trial"]):
+        return "clinical_study"
+
+    if any(x in probe for x in ["transformer", "bert", "neural network", "optimizer", "training loss", "fine-tuned", "imagenet", "bleu"]):
+        return "machine_learning"
+
+    if any(x in probe for x in ["survey", "questionnaire", "respondents", "participants"]):
+        return "survey_study"
+
+    if any(x in probe for x in ["recommendations", "checklist", "best practices"]):
+        return "guide_or_report"
+
+    return "general_research"
+
+
+def _infer_field(title: str, abstract: str, clean_text: str, paper_type: str) -> str:
+    title_abs = f"{title} {abstract}".lower()
+    probe = f"{title_abs} {clean_text[:5000].lower()}"
+
+    domain_scores: Dict[str, int] = {
+        "Education": 0,
+        "Natural Language Processing": 0,
+        "Computer Vision": 0,
+        "Medical / Clinical Research": 0,
+        "Medical AI": 0,
+        "Biology / Life Sciences": 0,
+        "Graph Learning": 0,
+        "Reinforcement Learning": 0,
+        "Generative Models": 0,
+        "Social Science": 0,
+        "Machine Learning": 0,
+    }
+
+    weighted_terms: Dict[str, List[str]] = {
+        "Education": ["education", "educational", "academic performance", "students", "higher education", "preclinical academic"],
+        "Natural Language Processing": ["translation", "language model", "question answering", "summarization", "bleu", "token", "bert", "gpt", "corpus"],
+        "Computer Vision": ["image classification", "object detection", "segmentation", "imagenet", "resnet", "vision transformer", "pixel"],
+        "Medical / Clinical Research": ["patient", "clinical", "cohort", "diagnosis", "mortality", "disease", "treatment", "medical students"],
+        "Medical AI": ["clinical prediction", "medical image", "radiograph", "x-ray", "ct scan", "mri", "ehr", "icu", "machine learning"],
+        "Biology / Life Sciences": ["protein", "molecule", "drug", "genomics", "dna", "rna", "crispr", "gene"],
+        "Graph Learning": ["graph neural network", "gnn", "node classification", "link prediction", "message passing"],
+        "Reinforcement Learning": ["reward", "agent", "policy", "q-learning", "ppo", "dqn", "actor-critic"],
+        "Generative Models": ["diffusion model", "gan", "generative adversarial", "vae", "denoising"],
+        "Social Science": ["survey", "questionnaire", "social science", "respondents", "interviews"],
+        "Machine Learning": ["machine learning", "deep learning", "neural network", "training", "optimizer", "classification"],
+    }
+
+    for domain, terms in weighted_terms.items():
+        for term in terms:
+            if term in probe:
+                domain_scores[domain] += 1
+            if term in title_abs:
+                domain_scores[domain] += 2
+
+    # Paper-type-aware tie breaks.
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        if domain_scores["Education"] >= 2:
+            return "Education"
+        if domain_scores["Medical / Clinical Research"] >= 2:
+            return "Medical / Clinical Research"
+        if domain_scores["Social Science"] >= 2:
+            return "Social Science"
+
+    if domain_scores["Medical AI"] >= 3 and domain_scores["Machine Learning"] >= 2:
+        return "Medical AI"
+
+    best = max(domain_scores, key=domain_scores.get)
+    if domain_scores[best] <= 1:
+        return "General Research"
+    return best
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Field-specific extraction helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _extract_research_question(abstract: str, intro: str, title: str, paper_type: str) -> str:
+    text = _clean(f"{abstract} {intro}")
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        review_markers = [
+            "purpose", "aim", "objective", "intended", "present review", "systematic review",
+            "with the purpose", "the aim of", "the objective of",
+        ]
+        for sentence in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sentence.lower()
+            if any(m in low for m in review_markers):
+                return sentence
+
+    markers = [
+        "we propose", "we introduce", "we investigate", "we evaluate", "we present",
+        "we developed", "this paper proposes", "this work proposes", "the goal",
+        "the aim", "the objective", "our goal", "our aim", "this study aims",
+    ]
+    for sentence in _split_sentences(text):
+        low = sentence.lower()
+        if any(m in low for m in markers):
+            return sentence
+
+    clean_abstract = _split_sentences(abstract)
+    if clean_abstract:
+        return clean_abstract[0]
+
+    return title or ""
+
+
+def _extract_contributions(abstract: str, intro: str, conclusion: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = f"{abstract} {intro} {conclusion}"
+    items = _find_sentences(text, CONTRIBUTION_PATTERNS, 8)
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review" and not items:
+        # Many reviews do not have explicit contribution language. Avoid hallucinating.
+        return []
+    return _filter_field(items, "contributions", paper_type)
+
+
+def _extract_methodology(methods: str, experiments: str, intro: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    primary = f"{methods}\n{experiments}"
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        review_patterns = [
+            r"\b(?:pubmed|scopus|web of knowledge|web of science|eric|cochrane|embase|medline)\b.*\bsearched\b",
+            r"\bdatabases?\b.*\bsearched\b",
+            r"\binclusion criteria\b.*",
+            r"\bexclusion criteria\b.*",
+            r"\beligibility criteria\b.*",
+            r"\btitles and abstracts were screened\b.*",
+            r"\barticles were imported\b.*",
+            r"\bdata extraction\b.*",
+            r"\bsystematic review was conducted\b.*",
+        ]
+        items = _find_sentences(primary, review_patterns, max_items=10)
+        if len(items) < 3:
+            items += _find_sentences(f"{intro}\n{primary}", review_patterns, max_items=10)
+        return _filter_field(items, "methodology", paper_type)[:8]
+
+    items = _find_sentences(primary, METHODOLOGY_PATTERNS, max_items=12)
+    if len(items) < 3:
+        items += _find_sentences(intro, METHODOLOGY_PATTERNS, max_items=5)
+    return _filter_field(items, "methodology", paper_type)[:10]
+
+
+def _extract_datasets(clean_text: str, methods: str, experiments: str, results: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    priority_text = f"{methods}\n{experiments}\n{results}"
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        items = _find_sentences(priority_text, REVIEW_SOURCE_PATTERNS, max_items=14)
+        if len(items) < 4:
+            items += _find_sentences(clean_text[:12000], REVIEW_SOURCE_PATTERNS, max_items=14)
+
+        # Also add compact database names when explicitly found.
+        compact: List[str] = []
+        db_names = [
+            "PubMed", "Scopus", "Web of Knowledge", "Web of Science", "ERIC",
+            "Educational Resources and Information Center", "Cochrane", "Embase", "Medline", "Google Scholar",
+        ]
+        low = priority_text.lower() + " " + clean_text[:8000].lower()
+        for name in db_names:
+            if name.lower() in low:
+                compact.append(name)
+        compact += _filter_field(items, "datasets_or_data_sources", paper_type)
+        return _dedupe(compact)[:10]
+
+    items = _find_sentences(priority_text, ML_DATASET_PATTERNS, 12)
+    if len(items) < 4:
+        items += _find_sentences(clean_text[:15000], ML_DATASET_PATTERNS, 12)
+    return _filter_field(items, "datasets_or_data_sources", paper_type)[:10]
+
+
+def _extract_models(clean_text: str, methods: str, experiments: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    if paper_type in {"systematic_review", "guide_or_report", "survey_study"}:
+        return []
+    priority_text = f"{methods}\n{experiments}"
+    items = _find_sentences(priority_text, MODEL_PATTERNS, 12)
+    if len(items) < 4:
+        items += _find_sentences(clean_text[:15000], MODEL_PATTERNS, 12)
+    return _filter_field(items, "models_or_methods", paper_type)[:10]
+
+
+def _extract_metrics(clean_text: str, results: str, experiments: str, methods: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    priority_text = f"{results}\n{experiments}\n{methods}"
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        review_metric_patterns = [
+            r"\b\d+\s+(?:articles|studies|records|publications)\b.*",
+            r"\b(?:final review|review) included\s+\d+\b.*",
+            r"\b\d+\s+articles were selected\b.*",
+            r"\bbetween\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\s+and\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\b.*",
+            r"\bfrom\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\s+to\s+(?:january\s+)?\d{4}\b.*",
+        ]
+        items = _find_sentences(priority_text, review_metric_patterns, 10, require_number=True)
+        if len(items) < 3:
+            items += _find_sentences(clean_text[:12000], review_metric_patterns, 10, require_number=True)
+        return _dedupe(items)[:8]
+
+    items = _find_sentences(priority_text, METRIC_PATTERNS, 12, require_number=True)
+    if len(items) < 3:
+        items += _find_sentences(clean_text[:15000], METRIC_PATTERNS, 10, require_number=True)
+    if not items:
+        items = _find_sentences(priority_text or clean_text[:15000], METRIC_PATTERNS, 8)
+    return _dedupe([x for x in items if "references" not in x.lower()])[:10]
+
+
+def _extract_findings(results: str, conclusion: str, abstract: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = f"{results} {conclusion} {abstract}"
+    items = _find_sentences(text, FINDING_PATTERNS, 10)
+    return _filter_field(items, "findings", paper_type)[:5]
+
+
+def _extract_limitations(clean_text: str, limitations: str, discussion: str, conclusion: str, paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = f"{limitations} {discussion} {conclusion} {clean_text[-6000:]}"
+    return _filter_field(_find_sentences(text, LIMITATION_PATTERNS, 8), "limitations", paper_type)[:6]
+
+
+def _missing_repro_info(card: Dict[str, Any], extracted: Dict[str, Any], paper_type: str) -> List[str]:
+    missing: List[str] = []
+    method_text = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["methodology", "experiments"])
+    low = method_text.lower()
+
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        checks = {
+            "search date range is not clearly specified": ["from", "between", "1987", "2018", "date", "time limitation"],
+            "inclusion/exclusion criteria are not clearly specified": ["inclusion criteria", "exclusion criteria", "eligibility criteria"],
+            "screening process is not clearly specified": ["screened", "titles and abstracts", "two independent"],
+            "quality assessment method is not clearly specified": ["quality", "assessment", "best evidence", "risk of bias"],
+        }
+        for label, terms in checks.items():
+            if not any(t in low for t in terms):
+                missing.append(label)
+        if not card.get("datasets_or_data_sources"):
+            missing.append("bibliographic databases or study sources could not be reliably extracted")
+        return missing[:6]
+
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        checks = {
+            "training hyperparameters are incomplete": ["learning rate", "batch size", "epoch", "steps"],
+            "random seed is not specified": ["seed", "random seed"],
+            "code availability is not clearly specified": ["code", "github", "repository"],
+            "dataset split details are not clearly specified": ["train", "validation", "test", "split"],
+        }
+    else:
+        checks = {
+            "study design details are incomplete": ["study design", "method", "procedure"],
+            "sample/data source details are incomplete": ["participants", "patients", "samples", "data source", "dataset"],
+            "analysis or measurement method is not clearly specified": ["analysis", "measure", "outcome", "metric"],
+        }
+
+    for label, terms in checks.items():
+        if not any(t in low for t in terms):
+            missing.append(label)
+    if not card.get("datasets_or_data_sources") and paper_type == "machine_learning":
+        missing.append("dataset or data source could not be reliably extracted")
+    return missing[:6]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Evidence pack
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _llm_evidence_pack(extracted: Dict[str, Any], paper_card: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    compact_sections: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+    for sec in extracted.get("sections", []):
+        text = _clean(sec.get("text", ""))
+        if not text:
+            continue
+        compact_sections.append({
+            "title": sec.get("title", ""),
+            "role_hint": sec.get("role", "other"),
+            "page_start": sec.get("page_start"),
+            "page_end": sec.get("page_end"),
+            "preview": text[:2000],
+        })
+
+    candidate = {k: v for k, v in paper_card.items() if k != "llm_evidence_pack"}
+    return {
+        "system_prompt": (
+            "You are a scientific paper analyst. Correct the candidate JSON paper card using only the provided evidence. "
+            "Do not invent facts. Remove boilerplate, references, author affiliations, acknowledgements, duplicate claims, "
+            "and generic text. Return only valid JSON with the same keys as candidate_paper_card."
+        ),
+        "instruction": (
+            "Refine candidate_paper_card. Keep facts specific, concise, and grounded in section previews, captions, and tables. "
+            "Respect paper_type: for systematic reviews, extract databases, inclusion/exclusion criteria, screening process, "
+            "selected studies, synthesis method, findings, and review limitations instead of ML hyperparameters. "
+            "Use null or [] when a field cannot be determined."
+        ),
+        "candidate_paper_card": candidate,
+        "section_previews": compact_sections[:16],
+        "captions": extracted.get("captions", [])[:10],
+        "tables": [_json_safe(t) for t in extracted.get("tables", [])[:4]],
+        "metadata": {
+            "references_count": len(extracted.get("references", [])),
+            "references_removed_from_body": bool(extracted.get("references_text")),
+            "appendix_removed_from_body": bool(extracted.get("appendix_text")),
+            "quality": extracted.get("quality", {}),
+        },
+    }
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public API
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def build_paper_card(extracted: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    title = extracted.get("title") or ""
+    abstract = extracted.get("abstract") or ""
+    clean_text = extracted.get("clean_text") or extracted.get("text") or ""
+    sections = extracted.get("sections", [])
+
+    intro = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["introduction", "background"])
+    methods = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["methodology"])
+    experiments = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["experiments"])
+    results = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["results", "experiments"])
+    discussion = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["discussion"])
+    limitations_text = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["limitations"])
+    conclusion = _sections_by_role(extracted, ["conclusion"])
+
+    paper_type = _infer_paper_type(title, abstract, sections, clean_text)
+    field = _infer_field(title, abstract, clean_text, paper_type)
+
+    card: Dict[str, Any] = {
+        "title": title or None,
+        "field": field,
+        "paper_type": paper_type,
+        "research_question": _extract_research_question(abstract, intro, title, paper_type) or None,
+        "contributions": _extract_contributions(abstract, intro, conclusion, paper_type),
+        "methodology": _extract_methodology(methods, experiments, intro, paper_type),
+        "datasets_or_data_sources": _extract_datasets(clean_text, methods, experiments, results, paper_type),
+        "models_or_methods": _extract_models(clean_text, methods, experiments, paper_type),
+        "metrics_or_measurements": _extract_metrics(clean_text, results, experiments, methods, paper_type),
+        "key_findings": _extract_findings(results, conclusion, abstract, paper_type),
+        "limitations": _extract_limitations(clean_text, limitations_text, discussion, conclusion, paper_type),
+        "missing_reproducibility_info": [],
+        "metadata": {
+            "source_pdf": extracted.get("source_pdf"),
+            "num_pages": extracted.get("num_pages"),
+            "extraction_engine": extracted.get("extraction_engine"),
+            "quality": extracted.get("quality", {}),
+            "references_count": len(extracted.get("references", [])),
+            "references_removed_from_body": bool(extracted.get("references_text")),
+            "appendix_removed_from_body": bool(extracted.get("appendix_text")),
+            "section_roles": extracted.get("quality", {}).get("section_roles", []),
+            "top_terms": _top_terms(f"{title} {abstract} {clean_text[:5000]}", 10),
+        },
+        "source_pdf": extracted.get("source_pdf"),
+        "annotation_version": "v1.0",
+    }
+
+    card["missing_reproducibility_info"] = _missing_repro_info(card, extracted, paper_type)
+    card["llm_evidence_pack"] = _llm_evidence_pack(extracted, card)
+    return card

src/paper2lab/inference/pipeline.py

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+"""
+pipeline.py — Paper2Lab extraction + optional refinement pipeline.
+
+PDF
+→ section-aware pdf_loader.extract_pdf()
+→ rule-based paper_card
+→ local modules
+→ optional Nemotron refinement
+
+Default behavior is local-only. Nemotron is optional and safe:
+if refinement fails, the local result is still returned.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Literal
+
+from paper2lab.data.pdf_loader import extract_pdf
+from paper2lab.evaluation.reproducibility import reproducibility_report
+from paper2lab.inference.lab_starter_kit import build_lab_starter_kit
+from paper2lab.inference.paper_card import build_paper_card
+from paper2lab.inference.refinement import refine_optional
+from paper2lab.inference.roadmap import build_reproduction_roadmap
+from paper2lab.inference.visual_explainer import explain_figures_and_tables
+from paper2lab.inference.auto_select import build_auto_best_card
+
+
+RefinementMode = Literal["none", "nemotron"]
+
+
+class PaperPipeline:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        pdf_engine: str = "pymupdf",
+        include_extraction: bool = True,
+        include_llm_pack: bool = True,
+        include_local_modules: bool = True,
+        refinement_mode: RefinementMode = "none",
+    ) -> None:
+        self.pdf_engine = pdf_engine
+        self.include_extraction = include_extraction
+        self.include_llm_pack = include_llm_pack
+        self.include_local_modules = include_local_modules
+        self.refinement_mode = refinement_mode
+
+    def run(
+        self,
+        pdf_path: str | Path,
+        refinement_mode: RefinementMode | None = None,
+    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        active_refinement_mode = refinement_mode or self.refinement_mode
+
+        extracted = extract_pdf(pdf_path, engine=self.pdf_engine)
+        paper_card = build_paper_card(extracted)
+
+        if self.include_local_modules:
+            reproduction_roadmap = build_reproduction_roadmap(extracted, paper_card)
+            figures_and_tables = explain_figures_and_tables(extracted)
+
+            paper_card["methodology_steps"] = reproduction_roadmap.get("experimental_steps", [])
+            paper_card["reproduction_roadmap"] = reproduction_roadmap
+            paper_card["figures_and_tables"] = figures_and_tables
+            paper_card["reproducibility_score"] = reproducibility_report(extracted, paper_card)
+            paper_card["lab_starter_kit"] = build_lab_starter_kit(paper_card)
+
+            # Keep the LLM evidence pack aligned with the final local candidate.
+            if "llm_evidence_pack" in paper_card:
+                paper_card["llm_evidence_pack"]["candidate_paper_card"] = {
+                    k: v for k, v in paper_card.items()
+                    if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+                }
+
+        refinement = refine_optional(
+            paper_card=paper_card,
+            mode=active_refinement_mode,
+            return_comparison=True,
+        )
+        auto_selection = build_auto_best_card(
+        local_card=paper_card,
+        refinement=refinement,
+            )
+
+        final_paper_card = auto_selection["final_paper_card"]
+
+        refined_card = refinement.get("after_refinement", paper_card)
+        if not isinstance(refined_card, dict):
+            refined_card = paper_card
+
+        if not self.include_llm_pack:
+            paper_card = {
+                k: v for k, v in paper_card.items()
+                if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+            }
+            refined_card = {
+                k: v for k, v in refined_card.items()
+                if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+            }
+
+            if isinstance(refinement.get("before_refinement"), dict):
+                refinement["before_refinement"] = {
+                    k: v for k, v in refinement["before_refinement"].items()
+                    if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+                }
+
+            if isinstance(refinement.get("after_refinement"), dict):
+                refinement["after_refinement"] = {
+                    k: v for k, v in refinement["after_refinement"].items()
+                    if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+                }
+
+        result: Dict[str, Any] = {
+            "status": "ok",
+            "refinement_mode": active_refinement_mode,
+            "paper_card": paper_card,
+            "paper_card_refined": refinement.get("after_refinement", paper_card),
+            "paper_card_final": final_paper_card,
+            "refinement": refinement,
+            "auto_selection": auto_selection,
+}
+
+        if self.include_extraction:
+            result["extraction"] = {
+                "source_pdf": extracted.get("source_pdf"),
+                "num_pages": extracted.get("num_pages"),
+                "title": extracted.get("title"),
+                "abstract": extracted.get("abstract"),
+                "extraction_engine": extracted.get("extraction_engine"),
+                "quality": extracted.get("quality", {}),
+                "metadata": extracted.get("metadata", {}),
+                "sections": extracted.get("sections", []),
+                "all_sections": extracted.get("all_sections", []),
+                "references": extracted.get("references", []),
+                "references_text_preview": (extracted.get("references_text") or "")[:2000],
+                "appendix_text_preview": (extracted.get("appendix_text") or "")[:1500],
+                "boilerplate_text_preview": (extracted.get("boilerplate_text") or "")[:1500],
+                "captions": extracted.get("captions", []),
+                "tables": extracted.get("tables", []),
+                "clean_text_preview": (
+                    extracted.get("clean_text")
+                    or extracted.get("text")
+                    or ""
+                )[:3000],
+                "raw_text_preview": (extracted.get("raw_text") or "")[:3000],
+                "text_preview": (
+                    extracted.get("clean_text")
+                    or extracted.get("text")
+                    or ""
+                )[:3000],
+            }
+
+        return result
+
+    def run_batch(
+        self,
+        pdf_paths: List[str | Path],
+        refinement_mode: RefinementMode | None = None,
+    ) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+        results: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+        for path in pdf_paths:
+            try:
+                results.append(
+                    self.run(
+                        path,
+                        refinement_mode=refinement_mode,
+                    )
+                )
+            except Exception as exc:
+                results.append({
+                    "status": "error",
+                    "source_pdf": str(path),
+                    "error": str(exc),
+                    "paper_card": None,
+                    "paper_card_refined": None,
+                    "refinement": {
+                        "status": "error",
+                        "mode": refinement_mode or self.refinement_mode,
+                        "error": str(exc),
+                    },
+                    "extraction": None,
+                })
+
+        return results
+
+    def save_json(
+        self,
+        pdf_path: str | Path,
+        output_path: str | Path,
+        refinement_mode: RefinementMode | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        result = self.run(
+            pdf_path,
+            refinement_mode=refinement_mode,
+        )
+
+        output_path = Path(output_path)
+        output_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+        with output_path.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            json.dump(result, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)

src/paper2lab/inference/refinement.py

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any, Dict, Literal
+
+from paper2lab.inference.nemotron_refiner import refine_with_nemotron
+
+
+RefinementMode = Literal["none", "nemotron"]
+
+
+def refine_optional(
+    paper_card: Dict[str, Any],
+    mode: RefinementMode = "none",
+    return_comparison: bool = True,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """
+    Default: keep local hardcoded/rule-based extraction.
+    Optional: refine the candidate with Nemotron.
+    """
+
+    if mode == "none":
+        return {
+            "status": "skipped",
+            "mode": "none",
+            "before_refinement": paper_card,
+            "after_refinement": paper_card,
+            "diff_summary": {
+                "changed_fields": [],
+                "added_fields": [],
+                "removed_fields": [],
+            },
+        }
+
+    if mode == "nemotron":
+        pack = paper_card.get("llm_evidence_pack")
+
+        if not pack:
+            return {
+                "status": "error",
+                "mode": "nemotron",
+                "error": "Missing llm_evidence_pack in paper_card.",
+                "before_refinement": paper_card,
+                "after_refinement": paper_card,
+                "diff_summary": {
+                    "changed_fields": [],
+                    "added_fields": [],
+                    "removed_fields": [],
+                },
+            }
+
+        try:
+            return refine_with_nemotron(
+                llm_evidence_pack=pack,
+                return_comparison=return_comparison,
+            )
+        except Exception as exc:
+            return {
+                "status": "error",
+                "mode": "nemotron",
+                "error": str(exc),
+                "before_refinement": paper_card,
+                "after_refinement": paper_card,
+                "diff_summary": {
+                    "changed_fields": [],
+                    "added_fields": [],
+                    "removed_fields": [],
+                },
+            }
+
+    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported refinement mode: {mode}")

src/paper2lab/inference/roadmap.py

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+"""
+roadmap.py — Deterministic reproduction-roadmap builder for Paper2Lab.
+
+Input: section-aware extraction dict + optional paper_card.
+Output: structured reproduction roadmap candidate.
+
+This module is intentionally local/rule-based. Modal/Nemotron should refine this
+later, not replace it.
+
+Design goals:
+- Keep the public API stable: build_reproduction_roadmap(extracted, paper_card=None)
+- Be paper-type aware: ML papers, systematic reviews, clinical/general papers.
+- Avoid noisy merged PDF lines from two-column layouts.
+- Keep concise evidence with section/page locations.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Sequence
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Marker banks
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_DATASET_MARKERS = [
+    "dataset", "data", "corpus", "benchmark", "training set", "test set", "validation set",
+    "patients", "samples", "records", "images", "sentences", "tokens", "articles", "studies",
+    "pubmed", "scopus", "web of knowledge", "eric", "educational resources and information center",
+    "cochrane", "wmt", "imagenet", "cifar", "mnist", "glue", "squad", "penn treebank", "wsj",
+]
+
+_KNOWN_DATA_SOURCES = [
+    "PubMed",
+    "Scopus",
+    "Web of Knowledge",
+    "ERIC",
+    "Educational Resources and Information Center",
+    "Cochrane",
+    "WMT 2014",
+    "WMT",
+    "ImageNet",
+    "CIFAR-10",
+    "CIFAR-100",
+    "MNIST",
+    "GLUE",
+    "SuperGLUE",
+    "SQuAD",
+    "Penn Treebank",
+    "Wall Street Journal",
+    "WSJ",
+]
+
+_SOFTWARE_MARKERS = [
+    "python", "pytorch", "tensorflow", "keras", "scikit-learn", "sklearn", "r", "matlab",
+    "cuda", "gpu", "github", "repository", "code", "implementation", "package", "library",
+    "endnote", "excel", "spss", "stata", "prisma", "docker",
+]
+
+_KNOWN_SOFTWARE = [
+    "Python", "PyTorch", "TensorFlow", "Keras", "Scikit-learn", "R", "MATLAB",
+    "CUDA", "Docker", "GitHub", "EndNote", "Excel", "SPSS", "Stata", "PRISMA",
+]
+
+_EXPERIMENT_MARKERS = [
+    "trained", "fine-tuned", "pre-trained", "evaluated", "optimized", "searched", "screened",
+    "selected", "included", "excluded", "randomized", "split", "preprocessed", "augmented",
+    "we train", "we trained", "we evaluate", "we evaluated", "we search", "we searched",
+    "inclusion criteria", "exclusion criteria", "eligibility criteria", "data extraction",
+    "titles and abstracts", "duplicate", "endnote", "excel",
+]
+
+_EVAL_MARKERS = [
+    "accuracy", "precision", "recall", "f1", "auc", "roc", "bleu", "rouge", "perplexity",
+    "loss", "rmse", "mae", "statistical", "p-value", "confidence interval", "evaluation",
+    "assessed", "measured", "score", "metric", "kirkpatrick", "quality assessment", "meta-analysis",
+    "best evidence medical education", "beme", "final review", "included studies",
+]
+
+_OUTPUT_MARKERS = [
+    "achieved", "achieves", "outperformed", "outperforms", "improved", "score", "accuracy",
+    "bleu", "f1", "auc", "included", "selected", "final review", "articles", "studies",
+]
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Cleaning and sentence filtering
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = text.replace("\x00", " ").replace("\u00a0", " ")
+    text = text.replace("\ufb01", "fi").replace("\ufb02", "fl")
+    text = re.sub(r"\b10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", "", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+([.,;:])", r"\1", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _is_noisy(sentence: str) -> bool:
+    s = _clean(sentence)
+    low = s.lower()
+
+    bad_fragments = [
+        "corresponding author",
+        "how to cite",
+        "access this article online",
+        "department of",
+        "university of",
+        "medical sciences",
+        "received:",
+        "accepted:",
+        "published:",
+        "copyright",
+        "license",
+        "all rights reserved",
+        "gmail.com",
+        "@",
+        "table of contents",
+        "journal of education and health promotion",
+        "endnote teachers",
+        "being accordingly",
+        "need this systematic review",
+        "the that",
+        "of the there",
+        "the the evidence",
+        "table 1:",
+        "table 2:",
+        "table 3:",
+        "table 4:",
+    ]
+    if any(x in low for x in bad_fragments):
+        return True
+
+    if len(s.split()) > 48:
+        return True
+
+    if len(re.findall(r"\[\d+", s)) >= 2:
+        return True
+
+    if sentence.count("|") >= 2 or sentence.count("%") >= 6:
+        return True
+
+    # Many merged two-column artifacts have two unrelated capitalized clauses
+    # without a normal sentence boundary.
+    if re.search(r"\b(the|this|therefore|besides|fisher)\b.+\b(the|this|therefore|accordingly)\b", low) and len(s.split()) > 34:
+        return True
+
+    # Reject strings that look like fragments rather than standalone steps.
+    if len(s.split()) < 5:
+        return True
+
+    return False
+
+
+def _split_sentences(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = _clean(text)
+    # Also split before uppercase section labels that PyMuPDF sometimes merges.
+    text = re.sub(r"\b(ABSTRACT|INTRODUCTION|MATERIALS AND METHODS|RESULTS|DISCUSSION|CONCLUSION):", r". \1:", text)
+    raw = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+(?=[A-Z0-9])", text)
+    out: List[str] = []
+    for s in raw:
+        s = _clean(s)
+        if 35 <= len(s) <= 340 and not _is_noisy(s):
+            out.append(s)
+    return out
+
+
+def _dedupe_strings(items: Sequence[str]) -> List[str]:
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    out: List[str] = []
+    for item in items:
+        clean = _clean(str(item))
+        key = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", clean.lower()).strip()[:180]
+        if key and key not in seen:
+            seen.add(key)
+            out.append(clean)
+    return out
+
+
+def _dedupe_dicts(items: List[Dict[str, Any]], key_name: str = "text") -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    out: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+    for item in items:
+        text = _clean(str(item.get(key_name, "")))
+        key = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", text.lower()).strip()[:180]
+        if key and key not in seen:
+            seen.add(key)
+            out.append(item)
+    return out
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Section helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _section_texts(extracted: Dict[str, Any], roles: set[str]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    rows: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+    blocked_titles = {"front matter", "keywords", "keywords:", "table of contents"}
+    paper_title = _clean(extracted.get("title") or "").lower()
+
+    for sec in extracted.get("sections", []):
+        role = sec.get("role", "other")
+        title = _clean(sec.get("title") or "")
+        low_title = title.lower()
+        if role not in roles:
+            continue
+        if low_title in blocked_titles:
+            continue
+        if paper_title and low_title == paper_title:
+            continue
+        rows.append(sec)
+    return rows
+
+
+def _find_evidence(
+    sections: List[Dict[str, Any]],
+    markers: List[str],
+    limit: int = 8,
+    require_number: bool = False,
+) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    hits: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+    marker_lows = [m.lower() for m in markers]
+
+    for sec in sections:
+        title = sec.get("title", "")
+        role = sec.get("role", "other")
+        for sent in _split_sentences(sec.get("text", "")):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            if require_number and not re.search(r"\d", sent):
+                continue
+            if any(m in low for m in marker_lows):
+                hits.append({
+                    "text": sent,
+                    "section": title,
+                    "role": role,
+                    "page_start": sec.get("page_start"),
+                    "page_end": sec.get("page_end"),
+                })
+                if len(hits) >= limit:
+                    return _dedupe_dicts(hits)
+    return _dedupe_dicts(hits)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Structured extraction helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _extract_known_sources(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    low = text.lower()
+    found: List[str] = []
+    aliases = {
+        "PubMed": ["pubmed"],
+        "Scopus": ["scopus"],
+        "Web of Knowledge": ["web of knowledge", "thomson reuters"],
+        "ERIC": ["eric", "educational resources and information center"],
+        "Educational Resources and Information Center": ["educational resources and information center"],
+        "Cochrane": ["cochrane"],
+        "WMT 2014": ["wmt 2014"],
+        "WMT": ["wmt"],
+        "ImageNet": ["imagenet"],
+        "CIFAR-10": ["cifar-10", "cifar 10"],
+        "CIFAR-100": ["cifar-100", "cifar 100"],
+        "MNIST": ["mnist"],
+        "GLUE": ["glue"],
+        "SuperGLUE": ["superglue"],
+        "SQuAD": ["squad"],
+        "Penn Treebank": ["penn treebank"],
+        "Wall Street Journal": ["wall street journal"],
+        "WSJ": ["wsj"],
+    }
+    for canonical, keys in aliases.items():
+        if any(k in low for k in keys):
+            found.append(canonical)
+    return _dedupe_strings(found)
+
+
+def _extract_software_from_text(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    low = text.lower()
+    found: List[str] = []
+    for name in _KNOWN_SOFTWARE:
+        # Avoid false positive: single-letter R appears everywhere, require context.
+        if name == "R":
+            if re.search(r"\bR\b", text) and any(x in low for x in ["statistical", "analysis", "software", "package"]):
+                found.append(name)
+            continue
+        if name.lower() in low:
+            found.append(name)
+    return _dedupe_strings(found)
+
+
+def _extract_count_outputs(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    outputs: List[str] = []
+    patterns = [
+        r"\b(?:totally|overall|in total),?\s*\d+[\w\s-]{0,40}\b(?:articles|studies|records|abstracts|patients|samples)\b",
+        r"\b(?:final review|review)\s+(?:included|enrolled)\s+\d+\s+(?:articles|studies)\b",
+        r"\b\d+\s+(?:articles|studies|records|abstracts|patients|samples)\s+(?:were|was)\s+(?:selected|included|enrolled|identified)\b",
+        r"\bbetween\s+[A-Z][a-z]+\s+\d{4}\s+and\s+[A-Z][a-z]+\s+\d{4}\b",
+        r"\bfrom\s+[A-Z][a-z]+\s+\d{4}\s+to\s+[A-Z][a-z]+\s+\d{4}\b",
+    ]
+    for pat in patterns:
+        for m in re.finditer(pat, text, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
+            outputs.append(_clean(m.group(0)))
+    return _dedupe_strings(outputs)[:8]
+
+
+def _compact_datasets(paper_card: Dict[str, Any], evidence: List[Dict[str, Any]], all_text: str) -> List[str]:
+    datasets: List[str] = []
+
+    # Prefer canonical names over noisy sentences.
+    datasets.extend(_extract_known_sources(all_text))
+
+    # Keep short, clean card items.
+    for item in paper_card.get("datasets_or_data_sources") or []:
+        clean = _clean(item)
+        if not clean or _is_noisy(clean):
+            continue
+        if len(clean.split()) <= 12:
+            datasets.append(clean)
+
+    # Add concise evidence only if it is clean and informative.
+    for hit in evidence:
+        clean = _clean(hit.get("text", ""))
+        if not clean or _is_noisy(clean):
+            continue
+        if len(clean.split()) <= 24:
+            datasets.append(clean)
+
+    return _dedupe_strings(datasets)[:10]
+
+
+def _roadmap_level(missing_count: int, detected_count: int, noisy_evidence_count: int = 0) -> str:
+    # Be less overconfident when evidence is present but noisy.
+    if noisy_evidence_count >= 4:
+        return "partial" if detected_count >= 5 else "weak"
+    if detected_count >= 8 and missing_count <= 2:
+        return "strong"
+    if detected_count >= 5 and missing_count <= 4:
+        return "partial"
+    return "weak"
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public API
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def build_reproduction_roadmap(
+    extracted: Dict[str, Any],
+    paper_card: Dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Build a local, evidence-grounded reproduction roadmap candidate."""
+    paper_card = paper_card or {}
+    paper_type = paper_card.get("paper_type", "general_research")
+
+    method_sections = _section_texts(extracted, {"methodology", "experiments"})
+    result_sections = _section_texts(extracted, {"results", "discussion", "conclusion"})
+    all_body_sections = _section_texts(
+        extracted,
+        {"methodology", "experiments", "results", "discussion", "conclusion", "introduction", "abstract"},
+    )
+
+    all_text = "\n".join(sec.get("text", "") for sec in all_body_sections)
+    method_text = "\n".join(sec.get("text", "") for sec in method_sections)
+
+    dataset_evidence = _find_evidence(all_body_sections, _DATASET_MARKERS, limit=12)
+    software = _extract_software_from_text(all_text)
+    experimental_steps = _find_evidence(method_sections or all_body_sections, _EXPERIMENT_MARKERS, limit=10)
+    evaluation = _find_evidence(result_sections + method_sections, _EVAL_MARKERS, limit=10)
+
+    datasets = _compact_datasets(paper_card, dataset_evidence, all_text)
+
+    expected_outputs: List[str] = []
+    for item in paper_card.get("metrics_or_measurements", [])[:5]:
+        clean = _clean(item)
+        if clean and not _is_noisy(clean):
+            expected_outputs.append(clean)
+    for item in paper_card.get("key_findings", [])[:5]:
+        clean = _clean(item)
+        if clean and not _is_noisy(clean):
+            expected_outputs.append(clean)
+    expected_outputs.extend(_extract_count_outputs(all_text))
+    expected_outputs = _dedupe_strings(expected_outputs)[:8]
+
+    missing: List[str] = []
+    if not datasets:
+        missing.append("dataset or source corpus details are missing")
+    if not experimental_steps:
+        missing.append("experimental or procedural steps are missing")
+    if not evaluation:
+        missing.append("evaluation procedure is missing")
+    if paper_type == "machine_learning" and not software:
+        missing.append("software/framework requirements are missing")
+    if paper_type == "systematic_review":
+        low = method_text.lower() or all_text.lower()
+        if not any(x in low for x in ["inclusion criteria", "eligibility criteria"]):
+            missing.append("inclusion criteria are missing")
+        if "exclusion criteria" not in low:
+            missing.append("exclusion criteria are missing")
+        if not any(x in low for x in ["quality assessment", "risk of bias", "best evidence medical education", "valid tool"]):
+            missing.append("quality assessment method is missing")
+
+    noisy_count = 0
+    for item in experimental_steps + evaluation + dataset_evidence:
+        if _is_noisy(item.get("text", "")):
+            noisy_count += 1
+
+    detected_count = len(datasets) + len(software) + len(experimental_steps) + len(evaluation) + len(expected_outputs)
+
+    return {
+        "paper_type": paper_type,
+        "datasets": datasets,
+        "software_requirements": software,
+        "experimental_steps": [
+            {
+                "step": i + 1,
+                "description": x["text"],
+                "section": x["section"],
+                "page_start": x.get("page_start"),
+                "page_end": x.get("page_end"),
+            }
+            for i, x in enumerate(experimental_steps[:10])
+        ],
+        "evaluation_procedure": [
+            {
+                "description": x["text"],
+                "section": x["section"],
+                "page_start": x.get("page_start"),
+                "page_end": x.get("page_end"),
+            }
+            for x in evaluation[:10]
+        ],
+        "expected_outputs": expected_outputs,
+        "missing_for_reproduction": missing,
+        "estimated_reproducibility": _roadmap_level(len(missing), detected_count, noisy_count),
+    }

src/paper2lab/inference/visual_explainer.py

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+"""
+visual_explainer.py — Caption/table understanding for Paper2Lab.
+
+This is caption-grounded visual understanding. It does not use image pixels yet.
+For the hackathon MVP, this gives useful figure/table summaries without GPU cost.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
+
+
+_METRIC_WORDS = [
+    "accuracy", "precision", "recall", "f1", "auc", "bleu", "rouge", "loss", "perplexity",
+    "score", "performance", "results", "comparison", "evaluation", "training cost", "p-value",
+]
+
+_METHOD_WORDS = [
+    "architecture", "pipeline", "framework", "workflow", "model", "method", "procedure",
+    "attention", "encoder", "decoder", "algorithm", "overview",
+]
+
+_DATA_WORDS = [
+    "dataset", "data", "samples", "patients", "images", "sentences", "articles", "studies",
+    "distribution", "statistics", "characteristics",
+]
+
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _label_type(label: str) -> str:
+    low = (label or "").lower()
+    if "table" in low or "tbl" in low:
+        return "table"
+    if "figure" in low or "fig" in low:
+        return "figure"
+    if "algorithm" in low:
+        return "algorithm"
+    if "scheme" in low:
+        return "scheme"
+    return "visual"
+
+
+def _purpose(caption: str, visual_type: str) -> str:
+    low = caption.lower()
+    if any(w in low for w in _METHOD_WORDS):
+        return "method_or_architecture"
+    if any(w in low for w in _METRIC_WORDS):
+        return "results_or_evaluation"
+    if any(w in low for w in _DATA_WORDS):
+        return "data_or_dataset_description"
+    if visual_type == "table":
+        return "structured_results_or_metadata"
+    return "illustrative_figure"
+
+
+def _summary_from_caption(label: str, caption: str, visual_type: str) -> str:
+    caption = _clean(caption)
+    if not caption:
+        return f"{label} is a {visual_type}, but no caption text was extracted."
+    # Keep concise, but grounded in caption text.
+    if len(caption) <= 220:
+        return caption
+    first_sentence = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+", caption)[0]
+    return _clean(first_sentence[:260])
+
+
+def _summarize_table_data(table: Dict[str, Any]) -> str | None:
+    data = table.get("data")
+    if not isinstance(data, list) or not data:
+        return None
+    rows = [r for r in data if isinstance(r, list)]
+    if not rows:
+        return None
+    n_rows = len(rows)
+    n_cols = max((len(r) for r in rows), default=0)
+    header = rows[0] if rows else []
+    header_text = ", ".join(str(x).strip() for x in header if str(x).strip())[:180]
+    if header_text:
+        return f"Extracted table with approximately {n_rows} rows and {n_cols} columns. Header fields include: {header_text}."
+    return f"Extracted table with approximately {n_rows} rows and {n_cols} columns."
+
+
+def explain_figures_and_tables(extracted: Dict[str, Any]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Return concise explanations for extracted captions and tables."""
+    outputs: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+    for cap in extracted.get("captions", []) or []:
+        label = cap.get("label", "")
+        caption = _clean(cap.get("caption", ""))
+        visual_type = _label_type(label)
+        outputs.append({
+            "label": label,
+            "type": visual_type,
+            "purpose": _purpose(caption, visual_type),
+            "summary": _summary_from_caption(label, caption, visual_type),
+            "evidence": caption,
+            "page_number": cap.get("page_number"),
+        })
+
+    # Add tables that have data but no caption match.
+    existing_table_pages = {(o.get("page_number"), o.get("label")) for o in outputs if o.get("type") == "table"}
+    for table in extracted.get("tables", []) or []:
+        page = table.get("page_number")
+        caption = _clean(table.get("caption") or "")
+        label = f"Table extracted on page {page}" if page is not None else "Extracted table"
+        if (page, label) in existing_table_pages:
+            continue
+        data_summary = _summarize_table_data(table)
+        outputs.append({
+            "label": label,
+            "type": "table",
+            "purpose": _purpose(caption or data_summary or "", "table"),
+            "summary": caption or data_summary or "A table was detected, but its content could not be summarized reliably.",
+            "evidence": caption or data_summary or "",
+            "page_number": page,
+        })
+
+    return outputs[:20]

src/paper2lab/rag/indexer.py

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+"""
+indexer.py — Local FAISS RAG index for Paper2Lab.
+
+Purpose
+-------
+Build a retrieval index from section-aware PDF extraction output.
+
+Default mode is local and cheap:
+    sentence-transformers + FAISS
+
+Optional mode supports NVIDIA/Nemotron-style embedding endpoints through
+langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints when NVIDIA_API_KEY is available.
+
+The public functions are intentionally simple:
+    build_rag_index(extracted)
+    save_rag_index(index, path)
+    load_rag_index(path, embedder_backend="local")
+
+No LLM generation happens here. qa.py handles answer synthesis.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import pickle
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Literal, Optional
+
+import numpy as np
+
+try:
+    import faiss  # type: ignore
+except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+    raise ImportError(
+        "faiss-cpu is required for Paper2Lab RAG. Install with: pip install faiss-cpu"
+    ) from exc
+
+
+EmbedderBackend = Literal["local", "nvidia"]
+
+
+@dataclass
+class RagChunk:
+    chunk_id: str
+    text: str
+    source_type: str  # section | caption | table | metadata
+    title: str
+    role: str = "other"
+    page_start: Optional[int] = None
+    page_end: Optional[int] = None
+    label: Optional[str] = None
+    score: Optional[float] = None
+
+    def to_evidence(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "chunk_id": self.chunk_id,
+            "source_type": self.source_type,
+            "title": self.title,
+            "role": self.role,
+            "page_start": self.page_start,
+            "page_end": self.page_end,
+            "label": self.label,
+            "score": self.score,
+            "text": self.text,
+        }
+
+
+@dataclass
+class RagIndex:
+    index: Any
+    chunks: List[RagChunk]
+    embedder_backend: EmbedderBackend
+    embedder_model: str
+    normalize_embeddings: bool = True
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Text utilities
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = text.replace("\x00", " ").replace("\u00a0", " ")
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\b10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", "", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _bad_chunk(text: str) -> bool:
+    low = text.lower()
+    bad = [
+        "corresponding author",
+        "how to cite",
+        "access this article online",
+        "copyright",
+        "all rights reserved",
+        "gmail.com",
+        "@",
+        "provided proper attribution",
+        "permission to reproduce",
+    ]
+    if any(x in low for x in bad):
+        return True
+    if len(text.split()) < 8:
+        return True
+    if text.count("|") >= 2:
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _split_into_windows(text: str, max_words: int = 170, overlap_words: int = 35) -> List[str]:
+    """Chunk text by word windows. Simple and robust for noisy PDF text."""
+    text = _clean(text)
+    if not text:
+        return []
+    words = text.split()
+    if len(words) <= max_words:
+        return [] if _bad_chunk(text) else [text]
+
+    chunks: List[str] = []
+    start = 0
+    while start < len(words):
+        end = min(len(words), start + max_words)
+        chunk = _clean(" ".join(words[start:end]))
+        if chunk and not _bad_chunk(chunk):
+            chunks.append(chunk)
+        if end == len(words):
+            break
+        start = max(0, end - overlap_words)
+    return chunks
+
+
+def _table_to_text(table: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    data = table.get("data")
+    caption = _clean(table.get("caption") or "")
+    if not isinstance(data, list):
+        return caption
+    rows: List[str] = []
+    for row in data[:12]:
+        if isinstance(row, list):
+            cells = [_clean(str(c)) for c in row if c is not None and _clean(str(c))]
+            if cells:
+                rows.append(" | ".join(cells[:8]))
+    body = "\n".join(rows)
+    return _clean(f"{caption}\n{body}")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Chunk extraction
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def build_chunks(extracted: Dict[str, Any], include_tables: bool = True, include_captions: bool = True) -> List[RagChunk]:
+    chunks: List[RagChunk] = []
+    counter = 0
+
+    blocked_roles = {"references", "appendix", "boilerplate"}
+    blocked_titles = {"front matter", "keywords", "table of contents"}
+
+    for sec_idx, sec in enumerate(extracted.get("sections", []) or []):
+        role = sec.get("role", "other")
+        title = _clean(sec.get("title") or "Untitled section")
+        if role in blocked_roles or title.lower() in blocked_titles:
+            continue
+        text = sec.get("text") or ""
+        for window in _split_into_windows(text):
+            counter += 1
+            chunks.append(
+                RagChunk(
+                    chunk_id=f"section-{sec_idx}-{counter}",
+                    text=window,
+                    source_type="section",
+                    title=title,
+                    role=role,
+                    page_start=sec.get("page_start"),
+                    page_end=sec.get("page_end"),
+                )
+            )
+
+    if include_captions:
+        for cap_idx, cap in enumerate(extracted.get("captions", []) or []):
+            label = _clean(cap.get("label") or f"caption-{cap_idx}")
+            caption = _clean(cap.get("caption") or "")
+            if caption and not _bad_chunk(caption):
+                chunks.append(
+                    RagChunk(
+                        chunk_id=f"caption-{cap_idx}",
+                        text=caption,
+                        source_type="caption",
+                        title=label,
+                        role="caption",
+                        page_start=cap.get("page_number"),
+                        page_end=cap.get("page_number"),
+                        label=label,
+                    )
+                )
+
+    if include_tables:
+        for table_idx, table in enumerate(extracted.get("tables", []) or []):
+            text = _table_to_text(table)
+            if text and not _bad_chunk(text):
+                label = f"Table {table_idx + 1}"
+                chunks.append(
+                    RagChunk(
+                        chunk_id=f"table-{table_idx}",
+                        text=text[:2500],
+                        source_type="table",
+                        title=label,
+                        role="table",
+                        page_start=table.get("page_number"),
+                        page_end=table.get("page_number"),
+                        label=label,
+                    )
+                )
+
+    return chunks
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Embedding backends
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class BaseEmbedder:
+    def encode_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> np.ndarray:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def encode_query(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class LocalSentenceTransformerEmbedder(BaseEmbedder):
+    def __init__(self, model_name: str = "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5") -> None:
+        try:
+            from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
+        except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+            raise ImportError(
+                "sentence-transformers is required. Install with: pip install sentence-transformers"
+            ) from exc
+        self.model_name = model_name
+        self.model = SentenceTransformer(model_name)
+
+    def encode_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> np.ndarray:
+        # BGE-style instruction prefix helps retrieval quality.
+        docs = [f"passage: {t}" for t in texts]
+        arr = self.model.encode(docs, convert_to_numpy=True, normalize_embeddings=True, show_progress_bar=False)
+        return arr.astype("float32")
+
+    def encode_query(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
+        arr = self.model.encode([f"query: {text}"], convert_to_numpy=True, normalize_embeddings=True, show_progress_bar=False)
+        return arr.astype("float32")
+
+
+class NvidiaEndpointEmbedder(BaseEmbedder):
+    """NVIDIA API/NIM embedding backend.
+
+    Requires:
+        pip install langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints
+        set NVIDIA_API_KEY=...
+
+    Default model uses NVIDIA's retrieval QA embedding endpoint.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, model_name: str = "nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5") -> None:
+        try:
+            from langchain_nvidia_ai_endpoints import NVIDIAEmbeddings
+        except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Install NVIDIA embeddings support with: pip install langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints"
+            ) from exc
+        self.model_name = model_name
+        self.embedder = NVIDIAEmbeddings(model=model_name)
+
+    def encode_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> np.ndarray:
+        # NVIDIA embedding endpoints support document embedding methods through LangChain.
+        vecs = self.embedder.embed_documents(texts)
+        arr = np.array(vecs, dtype="float32")
+        return _l2_normalize(arr)
+
+    def encode_query(self, text: str) -> np.ndarray:
+        vec = self.embedder.embed_query(text)
+        arr = np.array([vec], dtype="float32")
+        return _l2_normalize(arr)
+
+
+def _l2_normalize(arr: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    norms = np.linalg.norm(arr, axis=1, keepdims=True)
+    norms[norms == 0] = 1.0
+    return (arr / norms).astype("float32")
+
+
+def make_embedder(backend: EmbedderBackend = "local", model_name: Optional[str] = None) -> BaseEmbedder:
+    if backend == "local":
+        return LocalSentenceTransformerEmbedder(model_name or "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5")
+    if backend == "nvidia":
+        return NvidiaEndpointEmbedder(model_name or "nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5")
+    raise ValueError(f"Unknown embedder backend: {backend}")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Index build/search/save/load
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def build_rag_index(
+    extracted: Dict[str, Any],
+    embedder_backend: EmbedderBackend = "local",
+    embedder_model: Optional[str] = None,
+    include_tables: bool = True,
+    include_captions: bool = True,
+) -> RagIndex:
+    chunks = build_chunks(extracted, include_tables=include_tables, include_captions=include_captions)
+    if not chunks:
+        raise ValueError("No usable chunks found for RAG indexing.")
+
+    embedder = make_embedder(embedder_backend, embedder_model)
+    texts = [c.text for c in chunks]
+    embeddings = embedder.encode_documents(texts)
+    embeddings = _l2_normalize(embeddings)
+
+    dim = embeddings.shape[1]
+    index = faiss.IndexFlatIP(dim)
+    index.add(embeddings)
+
+    return RagIndex(
+        index=index,
+        chunks=chunks,
+        embedder_backend=embedder_backend,
+        embedder_model=embedder_model or ("BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5" if embedder_backend == "local" else "nvidia/nv-embedqa-e5-v5"),
+        normalize_embeddings=True,
+    )
+
+
+def search_rag_index(rag_index: RagIndex, query: str, top_k: int = 5) -> List[RagChunk]:
+    embedder = make_embedder(rag_index.embedder_backend, rag_index.embedder_model)
+    q = embedder.encode_query(query)
+    q = _l2_normalize(q)
+    scores, ids = rag_index.index.search(q, top_k)
+    hits: List[RagChunk] = []
+    for score, idx in zip(scores[0].tolist(), ids[0].tolist()):
+        if idx < 0 or idx >= len(rag_index.chunks):
+            continue
+        chunk = rag_index.chunks[idx]
+        hits.append(
+            RagChunk(
+                chunk_id=chunk.chunk_id,
+                text=chunk.text,
+                source_type=chunk.source_type,
+                title=chunk.title,
+                role=chunk.role,
+                page_start=chunk.page_start,
+                page_end=chunk.page_end,
+                label=chunk.label,
+                score=round(float(score), 4),
+            )
+        )
+    return hits
+
+
+def save_rag_index(rag_index: RagIndex, path: str | Path) -> None:
+    path = Path(path)
+    path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    faiss.write_index(rag_index.index, str(path / "index.faiss"))
+    metadata = {
+        "embedder_backend": rag_index.embedder_backend,
+        "embedder_model": rag_index.embedder_model,
+        "normalize_embeddings": rag_index.normalize_embeddings,
+        "chunks": [asdict(c) for c in rag_index.chunks],
+    }
+    (path / "metadata.json").write_text(json.dumps(metadata, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def load_rag_index(path: str | Path) -> RagIndex:
+    path = Path(path)
+    index_path = path / "index.faiss"
+    meta_path = path / "metadata.json"
+    if not index_path.exists() or not meta_path.exists():
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Missing FAISS index files in {path}")
+    index = faiss.read_index(str(index_path))
+    metadata = json.loads(meta_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    chunks = [RagChunk(**c) for c in metadata.get("chunks", [])]
+    return RagIndex(
+        index=index,
+        chunks=chunks,
+        embedder_backend=metadata.get("embedder_backend", "local"),
+        embedder_model=metadata.get("embedder_model", "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"),
+        normalize_embeddings=bool(metadata.get("normalize_embeddings", True)),
+    )

src/paper2lab/rag/qa.py

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+"""
+qa.py — Evidence-grounded local RAG Q&A for Paper2Lab.
+
+This module returns extractive answers with evidence and source locations.
+It does not call an LLM. Nemotron can later rewrite the answer using the same evidence.
+
+Design:
+- Classify the question into a small intent taxonomy.
+- Retrieve evidence with FAISS through indexer.py.
+- Synthesize answers using intent-specific extractive logic.
+- Avoid hardcoding known dataset names; discover entities from local evidence.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple
+
+from paper2lab.rag.indexer import RagIndex, build_rag_index, search_rag_index
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Intent classification
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_QUERY_INTENTS: Dict[str, List[str]] = {
+    "datasets": [
+        "dataset", "datasets", "data", "corpus", "corpora", "benchmark", "benchmarks",
+        "source", "sources", "database", "databases", "training set", "test set",
+        "validation set", "dev set", "patients", "samples", "records", "articles", "studies",
+    ],
+    "methodology": [
+        "method", "methods", "methodology", "procedure", "procedures", "steps", "approach",
+        "how", "trained", "training", "fine-tuned", "pretrained", "searched", "screened",
+        "selected", "included", "excluded", "implementation", "architecture", "pipeline",
+    ],
+    "evaluation": [
+        "evaluate", "evaluated", "evaluation", "metric", "metrics", "score", "accuracy",
+        "precision", "recall", "f1", "auc", "bleu", "rouge", "perplexity", "result",
+        "results", "performance", "finding", "findings", "outcome", "outcomes",
+    ],
+    "figures": [
+        "figure", "fig", "table", "caption", "diagram", "plot", "chart", "architecture",
+        "visual", "illustration", "show", "shows",
+    ],
+    "reproducibility": [
+        "missing", "reproduce", "reproduction", "reproducibility", "hyperparameter",
+        "hyperparameters", "software", "code", "github", "repository", "settings", "requirements",
+        "seed", "hardware", "gpu", "implementation details",
+    ],
+}
+
+_INTENT_QUERY_EXPANSIONS: Dict[str, str] = {
+    "datasets": "dataset corpus benchmark training data test set validation data source database articles studies",
+    "methodology": "method methodology approach procedure steps training implementation experimental setup search screening inclusion exclusion",
+    "evaluation": "evaluation metrics results performance score accuracy f1 bleu rouge auc outcome analysis measured assessed",
+    "figures": "figure table caption diagram architecture plot shows illustrates",
+    "reproducibility": "reproducibility missing information hyperparameters dataset details software code hardware seed experimental settings",
+    "general": "paper evidence method results conclusion",
+}
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Cleaning / sentence utilities
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _clean(text: str) -> str:
+    text = text or ""
+    text = text.replace("\x00", " ").replace("\u00a0", " ")
+    text = re.sub(r"\b10\.\d{4,9}/[-._;()/:A-Za-z0-9]+", "", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text)
+    return text.strip(" .;:\n\t")
+
+
+def _is_noisy_sentence(sentence: str) -> bool:
+    s = _clean(sentence)
+    low = s.lower()
+
+    bad_fragments = [
+        "corresponding author", "how to cite", "access this article online", "department of",
+        "university of", "medical sciences", "received:", "accepted:", "published:",
+        "copyright", "license", "all rights reserved", "gmail.com", "@",
+        "being accordingly", "endnote teachers", "the there", "resultsare",
+        "analysis of the resultsare", "need this systematic review",
+    ]
+    if any(x in low for x in bad_fragments):
+        return True
+    if len(re.findall(r"\[\d+", s)) >= 3:
+        return True
+    if s.count("|") >= 2 or s.count("%") >= 6:
+        return True
+    if len(s.split()) > 85:
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _split_sentences(text: str) -> List[str]:
+    text = _clean(text)
+    raw = re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+(?=[A-Z0-9])", text)
+    out: List[str] = []
+    for sent in raw:
+        sent = _clean(sent)
+        if 25 <= len(sent) <= 420 and not _is_noisy_sentence(sent):
+            out.append(sent)
+    if not out and text and not _is_noisy_sentence(text):
+        out = [text[:420]]
+    return out
+
+
+def _query_terms(question: str) -> List[str]:
+    words = re.findall(r"[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]{2,}", question.lower())
+    stop = {
+        "what", "which", "where", "when", "how", "were", "was", "are", "the", "and",
+        "used", "use", "paper", "study", "does", "did", "for", "with", "from", "that",
+        "this", "these", "those", "show", "shows", "tell", "about", "explain",
+    }
+    return [w for w in words if w not in stop]
+
+
+def _dedupe_strings(items: Iterable[str], limit: int = 10) -> List[str]:
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    out: List[str] = []
+    for item in items:
+        item = _clean(item)
+        if not item:
+            continue
+        key = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", item.lower()).strip()[:180]
+        if key and key not in seen:
+            seen.add(key)
+            out.append(item)
+        if len(out) >= limit:
+            break
+    return out
+
+
+def _intent(question: str) -> str:
+    low = question.lower()
+    scores: Dict[str, int] = {}
+    for intent, keys in _QUERY_INTENTS.items():
+        score = 0
+        for k in keys:
+            if k in low:
+                score += 2 if " " in k else 1
+        scores[intent] = score
+    best = max(scores, key=scores.get)
+    return best if scores[best] > 0 else "general"
+
+
+def _expanded_query(question: str, intent: str) -> str:
+    expansion = _INTENT_QUERY_EXPANSIONS.get(intent, "")
+    return _clean(f"{question} {expansion}")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Evidence helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _evidence_texts(hits: List[Any]) -> List[str]:
+    return [getattr(h, "text", "") for h in hits if getattr(h, "text", "")]
+
+
+def _rank_sentences(question: str, evidence_texts: List[str], max_sentences: int = 4) -> List[str]:
+    terms = _query_terms(question)
+    candidates: List[Tuple[int, int, str]] = []
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            lexical_score = sum(1 for t in terms if t in low)
+            length_penalty = max(0, len(sent.split()) - 45)
+            candidates.append((lexical_score, -length_penalty, sent))
+    candidates.sort(key=lambda x: (x[0], x[1]), reverse=True)
+
+    selected: List[str] = []
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    for score, _, sent in candidates:
+        key = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", " ", sent.lower()).strip()[:180]
+        if key in seen:
+            continue
+        if score == 0 and selected:
+            continue
+        seen.add(key)
+        selected.append(sent)
+        if len(selected) >= max_sentences:
+            break
+    return selected
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Dataset/data-source discovery without hardcoded dataset names
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_DATA_CONTEXT_WORDS = [
+    "dataset", "datasets", "corpus", "corpora", "benchmark", "benchmarks", "training data",
+    "training set", "test set", "validation set", "dev set", "data source", "databases",
+    "database", "articles", "studies", "patients", "samples", "records", "images",
+    "sentences", "tokens", "documents", "cases", "examples", "instances",
+]
+
+_KNOWN_DATABASE_GENERIC = [
+    "PubMed", "Scopus", "Web of Knowledge", "ERIC", "Educational Resources and Information Center",
+    "Cochrane", "IEEE Xplore", "ACM Digital Library", "Google Scholar", "MEDLINE", "Embase",
+]
+
+_DATASET_REJECT_TERMS = [
+    "parser", "berkeleyparser", "berkleyparser", "rnn", "lstm", "gru",
+    "transformer", "recurrent neural network", "neural network grammar",
+    "model", "architecture", "baseline", "beam size", "during inference",
+    "dropout", "optimizer", "learning rate", "attention", "encoder", "decoder",
+]
+
+_DATASET_ALLOW_TERMS = [
+    "dataset", "corpus", "corpora", "benchmark", "treebank", "wsj",
+    "wmt", "penn treebank", "wall street journal", "sentence pairs",
+    "sentences", "tokens", "training set", "test set", "validation set",
+    "dev set", "patients", "samples", "records", "articles", "studies",
+]
+
+def _extract_capitalized_entities_near_data_terms(sentence: str) -> List[str]:
+    """Discover likely dataset names from context without fixed known dataset list."""
+    s = _clean(sentence)
+    low = s.lower()
+    if not any(w in low for w in _DATA_CONTEXT_WORDS):
+        return []
+
+    found: List[str] = []
+
+    # Pattern: "standard X dataset", "larger X corpus", "on X benchmark".
+    context_patterns = [
+        r"(?:standard|larger|public|available|benchmark|the)\s+([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9._/-]*(?:\s+[A-Z]?[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+){0,6})\s+(?:dataset|datasets|corpus|corpora|benchmark|benchmarks)",
+        r"(?:on|using|from|with)\s+(?:the\s+)?([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9._/-]*(?:\s+[A-Z]?[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+){0,7})\s+(?:dataset|datasets|corpus|corpora|benchmark|benchmarks)",
+        r"([A-Z][A-Za-z0-9._/-]*(?:\s+[A-Z]?[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+){0,7})\s+(?:dataset|datasets|corpus|corpora|benchmark|benchmarks)",
+    ]
+    for pat in context_patterns:
+        for m in re.finditer(pat, s):
+            cand = _clean(m.group(1))
+            if _valid_dataset_candidate(cand):
+                found.append(cand)
+
+    # Pattern: explicit study/data counts.
+    count_patterns = [
+        r"\b(?:about|approximately|around)?\s*\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*(?:k|m|million|billion|thousand)?\s+(?:sentence pairs|sentences|tokens|images|patients|samples|records|documents|cases|examples|instances|articles|studies)\b",
+        r"\b\d+\s+(?:articles|studies|patients|samples|records)\s+(?:were\s+)?(?:included|enrolled|selected|used)\b",
+    ]
+    for pat in count_patterns:
+        for m in re.finditer(pat, s, flags=re.IGNORECASE):
+            found.append(_clean(m.group(0)))
+
+    # Known scholarly databases are generic enough to keep; not paper-specific datasets.
+    for db in _KNOWN_DATABASE_GENERIC:
+        if db.lower() in low:
+            found.append(db)
+
+    # Parenthetical abbreviations after a named source: Wall Street Journal (WSJ), etc.
+    for m in re.finditer(r"([A-Z][A-Za-z]+(?:\s+[A-Z][A-Za-z]+){1,5})\s*\(([A-Z0-9-]{2,10})\)", s):
+        cand = _clean(f"{m.group(1)} ({m.group(2)})")
+        if _valid_dataset_candidate(cand):
+            found.append(cand)
+
+    # Generic dataset-style identifiers near data terms: WMT2014, CIFAR-10, SQuAD-v2, XYZ-500.
+    for m in re.finditer(
+        r"\b[A-Z]{2,}[A-Za-z]*[- ]?\d{2,4}(?:[- ][A-Za-z]+)*\b",
+        s,
+    ):
+        cand = _clean(m.group(0))
+        if _valid_dataset_candidate(cand):
+            found.append(cand)
+
+    # Named corpora/treebanks/splits with abbreviations.
+    for m in re.finditer(
+        r"\b(?:Wall Street Journal|Penn Treebank|[A-Z]{2,6})\b(?:\s*\([A-Z0-9-]{2,10}\))?",
+        s,
+    ):
+        cand = _clean(m.group(0))
+        if _valid_dataset_candidate(cand):
+            found.append(cand)
+    return _dedupe_strings(found, limit=12)
+
+
+def _valid_dataset_candidate(candidate: str) -> bool:
+    cand = _clean(candidate)
+    low = cand.lower()
+
+    if not cand or len(cand) < 3 or len(cand.split()) > 10:
+        return False
+
+    if any(term in low for term in _DATASET_REJECT_TERMS):
+        return False
+
+    bad_exact = {
+        "the", "standard", "larger", "public", "available", "training",
+        "test", "validation", "we", "our", "this", "that", "section",
+        "table", "figure", "results", "parser",
+    }
+    if low in bad_exact:
+        return False
+
+    if any(x in low for x in ["section describes", "the following", "in this", "of the"]):
+        return False
+
+    # Accept known dataset-like abbreviations only when context looks data-related.
+    if re.fullmatch(r"[A-Z0-9-]{2,12}", cand):
+        return True
+
+    return True
+
+
+def _looks_like_dataset_detail(text: str) -> bool:
+    low = _clean(text).lower()
+    return bool(
+        re.search(
+            r"\b(?:about|approximately|around)?\s*\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*"
+            r"(?:k|m|million|billion|thousand)?\s+"
+            r"(?:sentence pairs|sentences|tokens|images|patients|samples|records|documents|cases|examples|instances|articles|studies)\b",
+            low,
+        )
+        or re.search(r"\b\d+\s*(?:k|m)?\s*tokens\b", low)
+        or re.search(r"\b\d+\s*(?:k|m)?\s*training sentences\b", low)
+    )
+
+
+def _answer_datasets(evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    dataset_names: List[str] = []
+    dataset_sizes: List[str] = []
+    vocabulary_details: List[str] = []
+    support_sentences: List[str] = []
+
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            found = _extract_capitalized_entities_near_data_terms(sent)
+
+            for item in found:
+                if _looks_like_dataset_detail(item):
+                    dataset_sizes.append(item)
+                else:
+                    dataset_names.append(item)
+
+            # Dataset size extraction, excluding vocabulary/token-only details.
+            for m in re.finditer(
+                r"\b(?:about|approximately|around)?\s*\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*"
+                r"(?:k|m|million|billion|thousand)?\s+"
+                r"(?:sentence pairs|sentences|images|patients|samples|records|documents|cases|examples|instances|articles|studies)\b",
+                sent,
+                flags=re.IGNORECASE,
+            ):
+                dataset_sizes.append(_clean(m.group(0)))
+
+            # Vocabulary / tokenization details are useful but not datasets.
+            for m in re.finditer(
+                r"\b(?:about|approximately|around)?\s*\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*"
+                r"(?:k|m|million|billion|thousand)?\s+"
+                r"(?:tokens|word-piece vocabulary|vocabulary)\b",
+                sent,
+                flags=re.IGNORECASE,
+            ):
+                vocabulary_details.append(_clean(m.group(0)))
+
+            if found or dataset_sizes or vocabulary_details:
+                support_sentences.append(sent)
+
+    dataset_names = _dedupe_strings(dataset_names, limit=10)
+    dataset_sizes = _dedupe_strings(dataset_sizes, limit=10)
+    vocabulary_details = _dedupe_strings(vocabulary_details, limit=10)
+    support_sentences = _dedupe_strings(support_sentences, limit=3)
+    dataset_names = [
+    x for x in dataset_names
+    if not any(bad in x.lower() for bad in _DATASET_REJECT_TERMS)
+                    ]
+    if dataset_names or dataset_sizes or vocabulary_details:
+        parts: List[str] = []
+
+        if dataset_names:
+            parts.append(
+                "Datasets / data sources:\n"
+                + "\n".join(f"- {x}" for x in dataset_names)
+            )
+
+        if dataset_sizes:
+            parts.append(
+                "Dataset sizes:\n"
+                + "\n".join(f"- {x}" for x in dataset_sizes)
+            )
+
+        if vocabulary_details:
+            parts.append(
+                "Vocabulary / tokenization details:\n"
+                + "\n".join(f"- {x}" for x in vocabulary_details)
+            )
+
+        if support_sentences:
+            parts.append(
+                "Evidence snippets:\n"
+                + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in support_sentences)
+            )
+
+        return "\n\n".join(parts)
+
+    fallback = _rank_sentences("datasets data corpus benchmark", evidence_texts, max_sentences=3)
+    if fallback:
+        return (
+            "I could not confidently isolate dataset names, but the most relevant evidence is:\n"
+            + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in fallback)
+        )
+
+    return "I could not find enough evidence about datasets or data sources in the extracted paper text."
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Specialized answer synthesis
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_METHOD_STEP_MARKERS = [
+    "we trained", "we train", "trained", "fine-tuned", "pre-trained", "optimizer", "learning rate",
+    "batch", "epochs", "searched", "screened", "included", "excluded", "inclusion criteria",
+    "exclusion criteria", "data extraction", "preprocessed", "augmentation", "architecture",
+]
+
+_EVAL_MARKERS = [
+    "accuracy", "precision", "recall", "f1", "auc", "bleu", "rouge", "perplexity",
+    "loss", "rmse", "mae", "score", "performance", "outperform", "achieve", "result",
+    "evaluation", "measured", "assessed", "statistical", "p-value", "confidence interval",
+]
+
+_REPRO_MARKERS = [
+    "learning rate", "batch size", "epoch", "optimizer", "dropout", "weight decay", "seed",
+    "gpu", "hardware", "code", "github", "repository", "dataset", "split", "software",
+    "implementation", "inclusion criteria", "exclusion criteria", "screening", "quality assessment",
+]
+
+
+def _answer_methodology(evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    steps: List[str] = []
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            if any(m in low for m in _METHOD_STEP_MARKERS):
+                steps.append(sent)
+    steps = _dedupe_strings(steps, limit=6)
+    if not steps:
+        steps = _rank_sentences("methodology procedure steps approach", evidence_texts, max_sentences=4)
+    if not steps:
+        return "I could not find enough methodology evidence in the extracted paper text."
+    return "The paper describes these methodological elements:\n" + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in steps)
+
+
+def _answer_evaluation(evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    items: List[str] = []
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            if any(m in low for m in _EVAL_MARKERS) and (re.search(r"\d", sent) or "result" in low or "performance" in low):
+                items.append(sent)
+    items = _dedupe_strings(items, limit=6)
+    if not items:
+        items = _rank_sentences("evaluation metrics results performance", evidence_texts, max_sentences=4)
+    if not items:
+        return "I could not find enough evaluation evidence in the extracted paper text."
+    return "The paper reports these evaluation/result details:\n" + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in items)
+
+
+def _answer_figures(evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    items: List[str] = []
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            if any(x in low for x in ["figure", "fig.", "table", "caption", "shown", "illustrates"]):
+                items.append(sent)
+    items = _dedupe_strings(items, limit=5)
+    if not items:
+        items = _rank_sentences("figure table caption shows", evidence_texts, max_sentences=3)
+    if not items:
+        return "I could not find enough figure or table evidence in the extracted paper text."
+    return "The relevant figure/table evidence says:\n" + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in items)
+
+
+def _answer_reproducibility(evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    found: List[str] = []
+    for text in evidence_texts:
+        for sent in _split_sentences(text):
+            low = sent.lower()
+            if any(m in low for m in _REPRO_MARKERS):
+                found.append(sent)
+    found = _dedupe_strings(found, limit=6)
+    if not found:
+        found = _rank_sentences("reproducibility missing hyperparameters software code settings", evidence_texts, max_sentences=4)
+    if not found:
+        return "I could not find enough reproducibility evidence in the extracted paper text."
+    return "The reproducibility-relevant evidence is:\n" + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in found)
+
+
+def _answer_general(question: str, evidence_texts: List[str]) -> str:
+    sents = _rank_sentences(question, evidence_texts, max_sentences=4)
+    if not sents:
+        return "I could not find enough evidence in the extracted paper text to answer this question."
+    return "Based on the retrieved evidence:\n" + "\n".join(f"- {s}" for s in sents)
+
+
+def _synthesize_answer(question: str, evidence_texts: List[str], intent: str) -> str:
+    if intent == "datasets":
+        return _answer_datasets(evidence_texts)
+    if intent == "methodology":
+        return _answer_methodology(evidence_texts)
+    if intent == "evaluation":
+        return _answer_evaluation(evidence_texts)
+    if intent == "figures":
+        return _answer_figures(evidence_texts)
+    if intent == "reproducibility":
+        return _answer_reproducibility(evidence_texts)
+    return _answer_general(question, evidence_texts)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public API
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def answer_question(
+    extracted: Dict[str, Any],
+    question: str,
+    rag_index: Optional[RagIndex] = None,
+    top_k: int = 5,
+    embedder_backend: str = "local",
+    embedder_model: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Answer a question using retrieved chunks from one extracted paper.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    extracted:
+        Output of pdf_loader.extract_pdf().
+    question:
+        User question.
+    rag_index:
+        Optional prebuilt index. If omitted, this function builds an in-memory index.
+    top_k:
+        Number of evidence chunks to retrieve.
+    embedder_backend:
+        "local" or "nvidia". Used only when rag_index is omitted.
+    embedder_model:
+        Optional embedding model name.
+    """
+    question = _clean(question)
+    if not question:
+        return {"answer": "No question was provided.", "evidence": [], "query": question}
+
+    intent = _intent(question)
+    retrieval_query = _expanded_query(question, intent)
+
+    if rag_index is None:
+        rag_index = build_rag_index(
+            extracted,
+            embedder_backend=embedder_backend,  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            embedder_model=embedder_model,
+        )
+
+    # Retrieve slightly more than displayed evidence so the synthesizer has more context.
+    internal_top_k = max(top_k, min(10, top_k + 3))
+    hits = search_rag_index(rag_index, retrieval_query, top_k=internal_top_k)
+    answer = _synthesize_answer(question, _evidence_texts(hits), intent)
+
+    # Keep user-facing evidence compact.
+    evidence = [h.to_evidence() for h in hits[:top_k]]
+
+    return {
+        "query": question,
+        "intent": intent,
+        "retrieval_query": retrieval_query,
+        "answer": answer,
+        "evidence": evidence,
+        "rag": {
+            "top_k": top_k,
+            "embedder_backend": rag_index.embedder_backend,
+            "embedder_model": rag_index.embedder_model,
+            "num_chunks": len(rag_index.chunks),
+        },
+    }
+
+
+def answer_from_pipeline_result(
+    pipeline_result: Dict[str, Any],
+    question: str,
+    top_k: int = 5,
+    embedder_backend: str = "local",
+    embedder_model: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Convenience helper for results returned by PaperPipeline.run()."""
+    extraction = pipeline_result.get("extraction") or {}
+    if not extraction:
+        return {"answer": "No extraction object was found in the pipeline result.", "evidence": [], "query": question}
+    return answer_question(
+        extraction,
+        question,
+        top_k=top_k,
+        embedder_backend=embedder_backend,
+        embedder_model=embedder_model,
+    )

test_nemotron.py

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+# test_nemotron_real.py
+
+import json
+
+from paper2lab.data.pdf_loader import extract_pdf
+from paper2lab.inference.paper_card import build_paper_card
+from paper2lab.inference.roadmap import build_reproduction_roadmap
+from paper2lab.evaluation.reproducibility import reproducibility_report
+from paper2lab.inference.visual_explainer import explain_figures_and_tables
+from paper2lab.inference.nemotron_refiner import refine_with_nemotron
+
+pdf_path = "Data/papers/train/Education intervention.pdf"
+
+extracted = extract_pdf(pdf_path)
+card = build_paper_card(extracted)
+
+roadmap = build_reproduction_roadmap(extracted, card)
+figures_tables = explain_figures_and_tables(extracted)
+repro_score = reproducibility_report(extracted, card)
+
+card["reproduction_roadmap"] = roadmap
+card["figures_and_tables"] = figures_tables
+card["reproducibility_score"] = repro_score
+
+pack = card["llm_evidence_pack"]
+pack["candidate_paper_card"] = {
+    k: v for k, v in card.items()
+    if k != "llm_evidence_pack"
+}
+
+result = refine_with_nemotron(pack)
+
+print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))