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by mentalgear 471 days ago
I applaud the effort for the local (lo-fi) space ! Yet, reading over the example linked in the docs (which does not seem cheery-picked, kudos for that!), my impression is that the document is a rather messy outcome [1].

I think what's missing is one (or more) step in-between, possible a graph database (eg[2]), which the LLM can place all it's information in, see relevant interconnections, query to question itself, and then generate the final report.

(maybe the final report could be an interactive HTML file that the user can ask questions, or edit themselves).

There's also a similar open-deep research tool called onyx [2], with I think has better UI/UX albeit not local. Maybe the author could consider porting this to local instead of rolling and maintaining another deep-research tool themselves ?

I'm saying this, not because I think it's not a good project, but because there are a ton of open deep-research projects which I'm afraid will just fizzle out, and would be better if people would join forces working on those aspects they care most about (e.g. local aspect, or RAG strategies, etc) .

[1] https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research/blob/...

[2] "In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321523

[3] https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx

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I had my own spin on deep research which you might find this easier to navigate: https://github.com/btahir/open-deep-research
> I think what's missing is one (or more) step in-between, possible a graph database (eg[2]), which the LLM can place all it's information in, see relevant interconnections, query to question itself, and then generate the final report.

Quickly, productize this (and call it DeepRAG, or DERP) before it explodes in late 2025 - you may just beat the market to it!

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267539