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Faster
Empower your research journey with AbsClust's visual search. On average, scientists spend significantly less time searching thanks to our natural ability to recognize images.
Leverage AI to easily find knowledge ‒ now open-source
An open-source project hosted by the University of RostockSearch, organize, and extract insights from scientific papers at scale.
- AI-Powered Search: combine keyword and semantic search with AI relevancy judgement
- Editable Q&A: ask complex questions across full-text articles and get traceable, reliable answers
- Data Tables: extract key findings, metrics, or sample details into structured tables
- Visual Maps: explore research clusters and spot trends using dimensionality reduction
Works with PDFs, supplementary files, and multilingual content. Built for researchers needing fast, accurate, and explainable workflows without black boxes.
Turn an exhaustive literature review into an easy discovery of information.
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Save time during your research with the power of AI
AbsClust simplifies literature research in the ever-expanding scientific articles landscape. Our AI-driven platform streamlines analysis, enabling you to gain valuable insights and stay on course in the sea of information. Join us in your quest for knowledge and make navigating the research ocean a breeze.
30%
More diverse
AbsClust map provides immediate overview of the field, helping to find articles approaching different aspects of the problem.
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Easier
On average, users find solving tasks with AbsClust 16% easier.
Visualize your field
AbsClust gives you a semantic map of your research field and provides you with immediate insights.
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Ask questions
You can use AI technology to ask questions related to your topic and get an AI generated answer with references to the relevant article.
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Extract information
Collect your found articles and extract information easily. You can ask specific questions or use prompts effectively, so you don't have to read the whole paper.
Get startedFree and open source
AbsClust is no longer a commercial product. The whole discovery system is published under the Apache 2.0 licence — use the instance we host, run your own, or build on top of it.
Use the hosted instance
The fastest way to start. No licence, no subscription, no credit card.
- Over 200 million articles
- Powerful visualizations
- Ask questions to your papers
- Extract findings into tables
- Upload your own PDFs
Run it yourself
Deploy AbsClust on your own infrastructure and point it at your own archive.
- Apache 2.0 licensed
- Docker-based deployment
- Bring your own document archive
- Swap in your own models
- Full control over your data
Contribute
The project is developed in the open. Issues, pull requests and research collaborations are welcome.
- Report bugs and request features
- Improve the search and ranking
- Add language support
- Share evaluation datasets
- Collaborate on research
Hosted at the
University of Rostock
AbsClust is an open-source research project. The University of Rostock provides the infrastructure that the public instance runs on, which keeps the tool freely available to the research community.
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We have conducted some research on the effectiveness of our tool. Feel free to download it here.
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Giving some of our users the chance to share their opinion.
I was stuck on a side project where I had to find a specific mathematical metric for vector embeddings. Absclust solved my problem in about 10 seconds.
Finding the right articles used to take forever, but AbsClust changed that. It understands exactly what I’m looking for and delivers spot-on results fast.
I used AbsClust to explore a new research area and cross-check experimental procedures across different papers. It’s a great tool for speeding up experiment setup and writing.