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Generates research questions through simulated conversations between a Wikipedia writer and topic expert LLM agents, where questions are grounded in perspective discovery from similar existing articles rather than direct prompting. The system surveys related Wikipedia articles to extract diverse viewpoints, then uses these perspectives to guide the question-asking process, ensuring comprehensive topic coverage from multiple angles. This two-agent conversational approach with perspective injection produces more structured and comprehensive research directions than naive question generation.
Unique: Uses perspective discovery from existing articles to guide question generation rather than direct LLM prompting, implemented as a two-agent conversation (Wikipedia writer + topic expert) that grounds questions in retrieved reference patterns. This contrasts with naive question generation that lacks structural guidance from domain knowledge organization.
vs alternatives: Produces more comprehensive and well-organized research questions than single-prompt approaches because it learns perspective structure from authoritative sources rather than relying on LLM priors alone.
Generates multi-level article outlines (sections, subsections, key points) using collected research references, where each outline node is anchored to specific retrieved sources. The system structures the outline hierarchically to match Wikipedia article conventions, then maps each outline element to supporting citations from the knowledge curation phase. This enables the subsequent writing stage to generate text with proper in-line citations by maintaining explicit outline-to-source mappings throughout the generation pipeline.
Unique: Maintains explicit outline-to-source mappings throughout generation, enabling downstream article writing to produce citations without additional retrieval. The outline generation phase explicitly anchors each structural element to supporting references from the knowledge curation phase, creating a citation-aware outline rather than a generic structure.
vs alternatives: Guarantees citation availability at write time because outline generation is citation-aware, whereas generic outline generators may create structures that lack source support.
Orchestrates the complete STORM pipeline (knowledge curation → outline generation → article writing → polishing) for batch processing of multiple topics, implemented through STORMWikiRunner that manages state, error handling, and progress tracking across pipeline stages. The system executes each stage sequentially for each topic, maintaining intermediate results and enabling resumption from failure points. This orchestration layer abstracts pipeline complexity and enables users to generate article collections without managing individual stage invocations.
Unique: Implements STORMWikiRunner that orchestrates the complete multi-stage pipeline (knowledge curation → outline → article → polish) with state management and error handling, enabling batch article generation without manual stage invocation. The runner maintains intermediate results and enables resumption from failure points.
vs alternatives: Simplifies batch article generation compared to manual stage invocation because the runner handles pipeline orchestration, state management, and error handling transparently.
Uses sentence encoders (embeddings) to compute semantic similarity between research questions and existing article content, enabling the system to discover relevant perspectives from similar articles without explicit keyword matching. The encoder system converts text to dense vector representations, enabling efficient similarity search across large article collections. This semantic approach discovers perspectives that keyword-based methods would miss, improving the diversity and relevance of research questions.
Unique: Uses sentence encoders to compute semantic similarity for perspective discovery, enabling the system to find relevant perspectives from similar articles based on meaning rather than keywords. This semantic approach discovers diverse perspectives that keyword matching would miss.
vs alternatives: Discovers more diverse and relevant perspectives than keyword-based methods because semantic similarity captures meaning-level relationships rather than surface-level term overlap.
Generates full-length Wikipedia-style articles (2000+ words) by consuming hierarchical outlines and mapped citations, producing text with inline citations that reference specific retrieved sources. The system uses the outline structure to guide section-by-section generation, maintaining citation context from the outline-to-source mappings to ensure every claim references a specific source. This multi-stage approach (outline → section generation → citation insertion) produces coherent long-form content with proper attribution without requiring additional source retrieval during writing.
Unique: Generates long-form articles with inline citations by leveraging pre-computed outline-to-source mappings from the outline generation phase, eliminating the need for citation lookup during writing. The system maintains citation context throughout multi-section generation, enabling coherent long-form text with proper attribution without additional retrieval.
vs alternatives: Produces properly cited long-form content more efficiently than retrieval-augmented generation approaches that re-fetch sources during writing, because citation mappings are pre-computed in the outline phase.
Integrates with internet search APIs (Bing, Google, or custom) to retrieve relevant sources for research questions, implementing a retrieval module that handles query expansion, result ranking, and content extraction. The system executes search queries derived from research questions, collects results with metadata (URLs, snippets, relevance scores), and extracts full-text content from retrieved pages. This retrieval layer feeds the knowledge curation phase with grounded source material, enabling all downstream stages to operate on internet-sourced information.
Unique: Implements a pluggable retrieval module that abstracts search provider (Bing, Google, custom) and handles full-text extraction from retrieved pages, enabling the knowledge curation pipeline to operate on rich source content rather than search snippets alone. The retrieval layer maintains source metadata throughout the pipeline for citation purposes.
vs alternatives: Provides richer source material than snippet-only search because it extracts full-text content from retrieved pages, enabling more comprehensive knowledge curation and citation accuracy.
Builds and maintains a hierarchical knowledge base (mind map) that organizes collected information into a dynamic concept structure, implemented as the KnowledgeBase class that stores information as nested concepts with relationships. The system continuously reorganizes information as new sources are added, maintaining a shared conceptual space that reduces cognitive load during knowledge curation. This knowledge base serves as the source of truth for outline generation and article writing, enabling both automated and human-collaborative workflows to reference a consistent information structure.
Unique: Maintains a dynamic, reorganizable knowledge base that serves as a shared reference structure for both automated and human-collaborative workflows, implemented as a hierarchical concept map that evolves as new information is added. This contrasts with static information tables that don't reorganize or provide cognitive scaffolding for long research sessions.
vs alternatives: Enables human-AI collaborative research more effectively than flat information tables because the hierarchical concept structure provides cognitive scaffolding and reduces information overload during extended curation sessions.
Implements a three-agent collaborative discourse protocol (Co-STORM) where human users, LLM expert agents, and a moderator agent participate in structured knowledge curation conversations. The moderator agent generates thought-provoking questions inspired by retrieved information not yet discussed, expert agents answer questions grounded in external sources and raise follow-up questions, and human users can observe passively or actively steer the conversation. The system maintains conversation history and the shared knowledge base, enabling the moderator to track discussed vs. undiscussed information and guide the discourse toward comprehensive coverage.
Unique: Implements a three-agent collaborative protocol with explicit moderator coordination that tracks discussed vs. undiscussed information and generates targeted follow-up questions, enabling human-AI research teams to maintain conversation coherence and comprehensive coverage. The moderator agent explicitly inspects the knowledge base to identify information gaps and guide the discourse.
vs alternatives: Enables more comprehensive and coherent human-AI collaboration than simple chatbot interfaces because the moderator agent actively tracks coverage and generates targeted follow-up questions rather than passively responding to user input.
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Dynamically loads language models from multiple backends (llama.cpp, ExLlamaV2/V3, Transformers, TensorRT-LLM) through a hub-and-spoke architecture where models.py acts as a loader dispatcher that populates shared.model and shared.tokenizer global state. The system detects model format (GGUF, GPTQ, safetensors) and routes to the appropriate backend loader, abstracting backend-specific initialization complexity behind a single load_model() interface.
Unique: Uses a centralized shared.py state hub with backend-agnostic loader dispatch pattern, allowing seamless switching between llama.cpp (CPU-optimized), ExLlama (GPU-optimized), and Transformers (maximum compatibility) without changing calling code. Most alternatives require separate initialization paths per backend.
vs alternatives: Supports more quantization formats (GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2) in a single interface than Ollama (GGUF-only) or LM Studio (limited format support), with explicit backend selection for performance tuning.
Implements a text generation pipeline (text_generation.py) that streams tokens in real-time using backend-specific generate() methods while applying configurable sampling strategies (temperature, top-p, top-k, repetition penalty, etc.). The pipeline supports both greedy decoding and stochastic sampling, with per-model preset configurations stored in models_settings.py that override global defaults, enabling fine-grained control over generation behavior without code changes.
Unique: Decouples sampling configuration from generation code through a preset system stored in models_settings.py, allowing per-model sampling profiles to be loaded from YAML without touching the generation pipeline. Implements backend-agnostic streaming abstraction that works across llama.cpp, ExLlama, and Transformers with identical API.
vs alternatives: Provides more granular sampling control (custom repetition penalty, min_p, mirostat) than Ollama's simplified parameter set, and supports model-specific presets unlike LM Studio's global-only settings.
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Integrates HuggingFace Hub integration for discovering, downloading, and caching models directly from the web UI. The system manages model downloads with progress tracking, supports resumable downloads, and caches models in a configurable directory to avoid re-downloading. Users can search for models by name or filter by size/quantization format, with automatic detection of model format (GGUF, safetensors, etc.) and routing to the appropriate backend loader.
Unique: Provides a web UI for browsing and downloading models from HuggingFace Hub with progress tracking and resumable downloads, eliminating the need for command-line tools like git-lfs. Automatically detects model format and routes to the appropriate backend loader without manual configuration.
vs alternatives: Offers integrated model discovery and download in the web UI unlike Ollama (requires manual model file management) or LM Studio (limited model search), with support for any HuggingFace model regardless of quantization format.
Builds the entire web UI using Gradio 3.40+, which provides responsive HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend with real-time streaming support via WebSockets. The interface is organized into tabs (Chat, Notebook, Training, Model Menu, Extensions) with Gradio components (Textbox, Slider, Dropdown, etc.) that automatically handle state management and event binding. Streaming responses are rendered in real-time as tokens arrive, with automatic UI updates without page refresh.
Unique: Uses Gradio's high-level component abstraction to build a fully-featured web UI without custom HTML/CSS, with built-in support for real-time streaming via WebSockets and automatic state management. Enables rapid UI development and modification without frontend expertise.
vs alternatives: Provides a responsive web UI with real-time streaming out-of-the-box unlike Flask/FastAPI (requires custom frontend), with automatic mobile responsiveness and no JavaScript coding required.
Implements intelligent context window management that counts tokens in the conversation history using the actual model's tokenizer and automatically truncates old messages when approaching the model's context limit. The system maintains a configurable buffer (e.g., 200 tokens) to ensure generation space. Truncation strategy is configurable (remove oldest messages, summarize, or sliding window). The context window size is auto-detected from model metadata or can be manually specified per model.
Unique: Uses the actual model's tokenizer to count tokens rather than estimation, combined with configurable truncation strategies and per-model context window overrides, vs. fixed token limits in most frameworks
vs alternatives: More accurate than LangChain's token counting (uses actual tokenizer vs. approximation), with automatic truncation vs. manual context management
Abstracts backend-specific implementation details (llama.cpp, ExLlama, Transformers) behind a unified Python interface in models.py. Each backend is loaded lazily (only when needed) to minimize startup time. The abstraction layer handles backend-specific initialization (e.g., ExLlama's context manager, llama.cpp's server startup) and exposes a common generate() method. Backend selection is automatic based on model format or can be explicitly specified via command-line flag.
Unique: Implements backend abstraction via Python duck typing (all backends expose generate() method) combined with lazy loading that defers backend initialization until first use, reducing startup time from 10s to <1s for model selection
vs alternatives: More transparent than LangChain's LLM abstraction (direct access to backend objects), with lazy loading vs. eager initialization in most frameworks
Exposes 15+ sampling methods (temperature, top-p, top-k, min-p, DRY, mirostat, etc.) via a configuration system that allows users to create and save custom sampling presets. Presets are stored in user_data/presets.yaml and can be selected via UI dropdown or API parameter. The sampling pipeline (text_generation.py) applies samplers in a configurable order, allowing composition of multiple sampling strategies. Advanced users can implement custom samplers as Python functions and register them with the sampling registry.
Unique: Implements sampler composition via a configurable pipeline that applies multiple samplers in sequence, combined with preset persistence that allows non-technical users to create and switch sampling strategies via UI without code
vs alternatives: More granular sampling control than OpenAI API (supports mirostat, DRY, min-p), with preset persistence vs. per-request parameter specification
Provides a Gradio-based chat UI (ui.py, ui_chat.py) that maintains conversation history as a list of {role, content} dicts, automatically formats messages according to model-specific chat templates (Alpaca, ChatML, Llama2, etc.), and renders streaming responses in real-time. The system detects the appropriate template from model metadata and applies it during generation, handling edge cases like system prompts and multi-turn conversations without manual formatting.
Unique: Automatically detects and applies model-specific chat templates (ChatML, Llama2, Alpaca, etc.) from model metadata without user intervention, handling complex multi-turn formatting rules that vary by model family. Most alternatives require manual template specification or only support a single format.
vs alternatives: Supports 15+ chat template formats automatically detected from model metadata, whereas ChatGPT API requires manual system prompt engineering and Ollama requires explicit template specification in model files.
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