IRIS - Interactive Research Ideation System

Official repository for the paper IRIS.

🔗 Setup

This project uses uv for package management, but you can use any virtual environment.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Anikethh/IRIS-Interactive-Research-Ideation-System.git
   cd IRIS-Interactive-Research-Ideation-System

2. Activate virtual environment:

   uv sync
   source .venv/bin/activate 

3. Set Environment Variables: Setup your API keys:

   export S2_API_KEY="your_semantic_scholar_api_key" 
   export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_google_gemini_api_key" 

🖥️ Running the Application

Ensure your virtual environment is activated, then run:

python app.py

📋 Requirements

• Semantic Scholar API Key
• LLM API Key for any provider supported by LiteLLM

📧 Cite

@misc{garikaparthi2025irisinteractiveresearchideation,
      title={IRIS: Interactive Research Ideation System for Accelerating Scientific Discovery}, 
      author={Aniketh Garikaparthi and Manasi Patwardhan and Lovekesh Vig and Arman Cohan},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2504.16728},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16728}, 
}