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Latest News & Updates

TLDRs Help to Cut Through the Clutter

March 20, 2023

7 min read

TLDRs are brief summaries of the paper’s abstract which we hope give users enough information to quickly decide whether or not the paper is relevant to them. Here's how we measure the success of TLDRs.

Dany Haddad

Embedding Recycling: Making Language Model Development More Sustainable

February 15, 2023

3 min read

LLMs are AI powerhouses that require significant resources. We investigated a new method called embedding recycling that, combined with other approaches, could make LLMs more efficient and sustainable.

Jon Saad-Falcon

Build For, and With, Scholars: How User Research Drives Impact at Semantic Scholar

December 1, 2022

5 min read

User research is the foundation of product development at Semantic Scholar, and has helped us gain a deep understanding of our scholars, how they interact with scientific literature, and their relationships within the community.

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