Pathfinders Submission for Pathway Hackathon 2025

Steps to run locally:

1. Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:adithya-ananth/Pathway-Hackathon-2025.git

2. Add .env file in backend directory with the following content: (3 distinct keys needed)

GEMINI_API_KEY_EXTRACT=your_key_here
GEMINI_API_KEY_ENRICH=your_key_here
GEMINI_API_KEY_SUMMARIZE=your_key_here

3. Set up virtual environment in backend

cd backend
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

4. Install the required libraries from the requirements.txt file using pip into backend

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Run the backend

pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn main:app --port 8080

6. Run the frontend

cd ../frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Project Description:

Our application provides Real-time Academic Research Discovery with AI-Powered Fallback, to provide accurate and efficient replies to research-related user queries. Using Pathway's parser and RAG setup, we've been able to implement a real-time research assistant, that also utilises the arXiv and Gemini APIS.