RESEARCHHUB: A Personalized Literature Discovery System for Biomedical Preprints

arXiv:2610.28636 · cs.IR, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.IR, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Updated: 2026-08-05

Comments: under-review

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We present ResearchHub, an interactive system for personalized literature discovery over biomedical preprints.

Abstract

We present ResearchHub, an interactive system for personalized literature discovery over biomedical preprints. Given a researcher profile or a free-form query, ResearchHub retrieves relevant papers from a domain-specific MedRxiv corpus and helps users move beyond near-duplicate recommendations through controllable novelty, diversity, and curriculum ordering. At the core of the system is prism, a bi-encoder retriever adapted to biomedical preprints using GPT-4o-generated natural language queries and a hybrid Multiple Negatives Ranking plus MarginMSE objective with cross-encoder soft labels. On 44,937 MedRxiv papers from 2023--2025, prism outperforms strong off-the-shelf dense retrievers, improving Recall@10 over SPECTER2-Search by 12.4 percentage points. ResearchHub further supports frontier retrieval based on a user's reading history, DPP-based diversity re-ranking, Local Intrinsic Dimensionality ordering from mainstream to specialized papers, and lightweight attribution cards for result explanation. The full pipeline runs with low latency, making the system suitable

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