v0.2.0

lutzroeder/netronv0.2.0Jul 8, 2024by Yucheng-Jiang

AI Summary

This release focuses on enhanced retrieval capabilities and user interface, featuring a new web UI, support for custom document retrieval via VectorRM, and a lightweight demo interface for developers.

Key Highlights

  • New web UI for direct interaction
  • VectorRM for grounding on user-provided documents
  • Demo light interface for developers
  • Improved stability and new topic discovery features

New Features

  • VectorRM
  • New Web UI
  • Demo Light Interface

Full Release Notes

## Support retrieving information from customized documents
- Add `VectorRM` to support grounding on user-provided documents, complementing existing support of search engines (`YouRM`, `BingSearch`). ([#58](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/pull/58))
- We provide [an example script here](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/blob/main/examples/run_storm_wiki_gpt_with_VectorRM.py) and [detailed instructions here](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/blob/main/examples/README.md#run-storm-with-your-own-corpus).

## UI updates
- We release a new UI for users to directly interact with STORM, available at https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/. This update brings improved stability and a new feature of discovering popular topics. (Thanks [dekunma](https://github.com/dekunma) from Yale for the collaboration)
- We release [demo light](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/tree/main/frontend/demo_light) for developers, a minimal user interface built with streamlit framework in Python, handy for local development and demo hosting ([#54](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/pull/54))

![storm_ui](https://github.com/stanford-oval/storm/assets/51142637/0596fca3-6372-4d81-b07f-d04b58b9f283)

## Miscs
- In-person talk in San Francisco: Our team member will give an invited talk at [Wikipedians Meetup @ San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco) on July 11. Come to chat with us in person!
- Upcoming major update: A major update supporting human-AI collaboration mode will be released over the summer. Stay tuned!