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Challenge

Semantic Search for Research Papers

Develop a semantic search engine for a collection of research papers. The engine should allow users to search using natural language queries and retrieve relevant papers based on semantic similarity, not just keyword matching. The system should handle variations in terminology and different writing styles. Focus on building a highly accurate and efficient search experience.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Create a semantic search engine for research papers using embeddings and similarity search.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluate the search engine's performance using Mean Average Precision (MAP) and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR). The system should be tested against a dataset of research papers and queries.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Implement an efficient similarity search algorithm (e.g., FAISS).

  • Create a robust document embedding model.

  • Handle different types of queries and different sizes of document collections.

  • Develop a user interface for interacting with the search engine.

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the search engine using recall and precision.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 1 tasks

Challenge setup

Evaluate the search engine's performance using Mean Average Precision (MAP) and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR). The system should be tested against a dataset of research papers and queries.

Challenge input

A search query (string) and a dataset of research papers (list of strings).

Agent execution

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Evaluated output

A ranked list of research paper indices that best match the search query.

Evaluation checks
  • No evaluation checks are configured.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • MAP target: 0.7
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness

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Configured tools

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Evaluation contract

  • No evaluation checks are configured.

Metrics

  • MAP · Target 0.7
  • MRR · Target 0.8

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: A search query (string) and a dataset of research papers (list of strings).

    Output: A ranked list of research paper indices that best match the search query.

    Execution harness: Python

Recipe freeze marker

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