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Paper Xray
Paper Xray is a deep-reading skill that reconstructs the actual thought process behind academic papers.
Paper X-Ray is a deep-reading skill that reconstructs how a paper was actually thought up rather than restating its abstract. It pairs a Hinton-style voice focused on mechanisms with a 3Blue1Brown-style exposition featuring visual intuition and hand-computable examples. The tool reads full texts including appendices, footnotes, and captions, and accepts local PDFs, arXiv identifiers, pasted text, public code, and figure directories. Users can pick between a Markdown text edition or an interactive HTML visual edition with KaTeX and parameter sliders. It is designed for researchers and readers who want to understand papers more deeply than by reading the original text.
Paper Xray at a glance
Key features
- Author reconstruction of structural failures and evidence
- Concrete mathematics with shapes, meanings, and micro-examples
- Full worked examples carrying real state across method and baseline
- Skeptical review checking hyperparameters, ablations, and leakage
- Two delivery branches in Markdown or self-contained HTML
- Paper-type adaptation across methods, theory, systems, and datasets
- Bilingual support for Chinese and English
Use it for
- Read complex academic papers and technical documents deeply
- Analyze code repositories and figure directories alongside papers
- Generate interactive HTML visual editions of paper breakdowns
- Perform skeptical reviews of hyperparameters and baselines
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