paper-explorer

Retrieve accepted paper metadata from ML/DL/NLP/CV/Robotics/Security/SE conferences. Uses the OpenReview API, web scraping, CVF Open Access, and the DBLP API.

Getting Started

1. Install uv

uv is a fast Python package manager used to manage dependencies.

# macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows (PowerShell)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

After installing, restart your terminal so the uv command is available.

2. Clone and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/brightjade/paper-explorer.git
cd paper-explorer
uv sync

This creates a virtual environment and installs all required packages automatically.

3. Download paper data

The paper data is hosted as a GitHub Release asset. Run the setup script to download and extract it:

./setup.sh

This downloads the latest data snapshot (~60 MB) and extracts it to data/.

Note: Requires either the GitHub CLI (gh) or curl. If you don't have gh, the script falls back to curl automatically.

4. Set up OpenReview credentials (optional)

Only needed if you want to crawl OpenReview conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, COLM, CoRL). Other conferences are scraped from public websites and don't require authentication.

1. Create a free account at https://openreview.net/signup
2. Copy the example env file and fill in your credentials:

cp .env.example .env

3. Edit .env with your OpenReview username and password.

Usage

# Crawl one or more conferences
uv run ppr crawl iclr_2025
uv run ppr crawl iclr_2025 neurips_2025 icml_2025

# Enrich with citation counts and abstracts
uv run ppr enrich iclr_2025
uv run ppr enrich iclr_2025 neurips_2025 icml_2025

# Validate paper counts against DBLP
uv run ppr validate iclr_2025
uv run ppr validate iclr_2025 neurips_2025 --tolerance 0.15

# Build static JSON for web app
./build.sh

Available conferences

Conference ID format: <venue>_<year> (e.g., iclr_2025). Selections indicate available paper tracks.

ML

Conference	2026	2025	2024	2023
ICLR	oral, poster	oral, spotlight, poster	oral, spotlight, poster	oral, spotlight, poster
NeurIPS		oral, spotlight, poster	oral, spotlight, poster	oral, spotlight, poster
ICML		oral, spotlight, poster	oral, spotlight, poster	oral, poster
AAAI		main	main	main
IJCAI		main	main	main

NeurIPS also includes datasets_oral, datasets_spotlight, datasets_poster tracks.

NLP

Conference	2025	2024	2023
ACL	main, findings, industry	main, findings	main, findings, industry
EMNLP	main, findings, industry	main, findings, industry	main, findings, industry
NAACL	main, findings, industry	main, findings, industry
COLM	main	main
EACL		main, findings	main, findings
COLING	main	main

CV (CVF / ECVA)

Conference	2026	2025	2024	2023
CVPR		main	main	main
ICCV		main		main
ECCV			main
WACV	main	main	main	main

Robotics

Conference	2025	2024	2023
CoRL	oral, poster	main	oral, poster
ICRA	main	main	main
IROS	main	main	main
RSS	main	main	main

Security

Conference	2025	2024	2023
USENIX Security	main	main	main

Software Engineering (DBLP)

Conference	2025	2024	2023
ICSE	main	main	main
FSE	main	main	main
ASE	main	main	main
ISSTA	main	main	main

Literature Survey (Claude Code skill)

Use the /survey command in Claude Code to generate a grounded literature survey from the accepted papers in this repository. Requires enriched data (papers_enriched.jsonl) for the target conferences.

# Specify conferences and year range
/survey I'm exploring efficient inference methods for large language models,
like speculative decoding and early exit strategies. Search NLP and ML
conferences from 2023-2025.

# Let it ask you for scope
/survey What papers exist on 3D object detection from point clouds?

# Target specific venues
/survey Find related work on code generation with LLMs. Search ICSE, FSE,
ASE, ACL, and EMNLP from 2023-2025.

The survey searches through real accepted papers, ranks by citation count, identifies datasets and benchmarks, and highlights research gaps. Output is saved to outputs/<topic>_<timestamp>.md.