EDUCATION & TRAINING
How to Build a Research Paper Dataset for RAG & LLMs (No Code, 2026)
Dev.to Machine Learning
About This Tutorial
Grounding an LLM or running a literature review? You need a clean corpus of papers - titles, abstracts, authors, citations, PDF links. Here's how to build one in minutes without writing a scraper, pulling from arXi, OpenAlex and PubMed. What you'll build: a structured JSON dataset of academic papers on your topic, ready to drop into a vector database, a notebook, or a RAG pipeline. Why not just hit the APIs directly? arXi, OpenAlex and PubMed are all free and open - but each returns a different format (Atom XML, nested JSON, E-utilities), with its own pagination and rate limits.