gpt_academic

LLM interface for paper reading, polishing, and writing — a researcher's essential

★ 71,392 stars, verified 2026-09-30Category: AI Chat UIs & ClientsGitHub repository ↗

An LLM interface optimized for reading, polishing, and writing academic papers — an essential tool for researchers, hugely popular in the Chinese community.

Chat interfaces and desktop clients for talking to AI models.

Key features

Good for

Stack & tags

Pythonacademic-toolspaper-translationpluginsllm-clientlatexchinese-llmproductivity

Quick start

pip install -r requirements.txt

From the project README on GitHub.

Screenshots

Screenshots from the project’s GitHub README.

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