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title: AI Research Companion
emoji: 🔬
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.0.0
app_file: app.py
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# 🔬 AI Research Companion (Groq + LangChain + FAISS)

An advanced **AI-powered research assistant** that helps you analyze academic papers, ask natural language questions, generate engaging summaries, and discover related research — all from a modern, tabbed **Gradio interface**.

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## 🚀 Features

- **PDF Upload & Text Extraction** – Extracts full text from research papers  
- **Chunking & Vector Embedding** – Uses LangChain + HuggingFace embeddings for semantic search  
- **Groq LLM Q&A** – Powered by `llama-3.3-70b-versatile` for accurate answers  
- **Cited Source References** – Shows the exact text chunks used  
- **Research Paper Summaries** – Creates clear, engaging summaries  
- **Similar Paper Discovery** – Uses arXiv API to find related studies  
- **Beautiful Multi-Tab UI** – Custom-styled Gradio interface  

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## 🛠 Tech Stack

- Python 3.9+  
- Gradio  
- LangChain  
- FAISS  
- HuggingFace Sentence Transformers (`all-mpnet-base-v2`)  
- Groq API  
- PyPDF2  
- Feedparser  
- Custom CSS  

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## 📦 Installation & Setup

### 1️⃣ Clone the Repository

```bash
git clone https://github.com/bobbythomas985/Research_Assistant
cd Research_Assistant