Project AELLA
Open LLMs for structuring 100M research papers
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We're releasing Project AELLA - an open-science initiative to make scientific knowledge more accessible through AI-generated structured summaries of research papers.Blog: https://inference.net/blog/project-aellaVisualizer: https://aella.inference.netModels: https://huggingface.co/inference-net/Aella-Qwen3-14B, https://huggingface.co/inference-net/Aella-Nemotron-12BHighlights: - Released 100K research paper summaries in standardized JSON format with interactive visualization.- Fine-tuned open models (Qwen 3 14B & Nemotron 12B) that match GPT-5/Claude 4.5 performance at 98% lower cost (~$100K vs $5M to process 100M papers)- Built on distributed "idle compute" infrastructure - think SETI@Home for LLM workloadsGoal: Process ~100M papers total, then link to OpenAlex metadata and convert to copyright-respecting "Knowledge Units"The models are open, evaluation framework is transparent, and we're making the summaries publicly available. This builds on Project Alexandria's legal/technical foundation for extracting factual knowledge while respecting copyright.Technical deep-dive in the post covers our training pipeline, dual evaluation methods (LLM-as-judge + QA dataset), and economic comparison showing 50x cost reduction vs closed models.Happy to answer questions about the training approach, evaluation methodology, or infrastructure!
HN · launched Nov 11, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
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No Fine-tuning models and generating structured scientific extraction across 100 million research papers demands massive compute infrastructure and specialized ML data engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires a distributed data ingestion pipeline (e.g., Apache Spark or Ray) parsing petabytes of PDFs, a GPU cluster running distributed LLM fine-tuning on academic literature, and high-throughput inference infrastructure (such as vLLM) capable of processing 100M documents into structured knowledge graphs.
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