Papyrus

papyrus-5m1.pages.dev

In-browser academic paper search engine with semantic search, knowledge graph visualization, and multi-source support (arXiv, OpenAlex, Europe PMC).

What's working

• Search 1M+ arXiv papers entirely in the browser — no backend
• Semantic search via binary quantized embeddings and cross-encoder reranking
• Filter results by category and year
• Find similar papers by embedding distance
• Paper abstracts, authors, and publication dates fetched on demand
• BibTeX citation export and shareable search URLs
• Offline support via IndexedDB caching and service worker
• WebGPU acceleration with automatic WASM fallback
• Dark mode

What's coming

• Knowledge graph visualization (Sigma.js)
• Multi-source search (OpenAlex, Europe PMC)

Stack

React 19 · TypeScript · Vite · Transformers.js · Sigma.js · Cloudflare Pages