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Whisper of the arxiv: read comments in tex of papers
https://github.com/soskek/arxiv_leaks

arxiv arxiv-analytics deep-learning scraper

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Whisper of the arxiv: read comments in tex of papers

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# ArxivLeaks

Most of papers on arxiv have latex files, which often contain much comment out. Dig up the valuable comments!

For example, you can extract a secret comment from "[Attention Is All You Need](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762)", as below:

>\\paragraph{Symbol Dropout} In the source and target embedding layers, we replace a random subset of the token ids with a sentinel id. For the base model, we use a rate of $symbol\\_dropout\\_rate=0.1$. Note that this applies only to the auto-regressive use of the target ids - not their use in the cross-entropy loss.

We found "Symbol Dropout", which do not appear in the paper (pdf).

## Run

Feed a text/page containing arxiv URLs by `-t`.
```
python -u run.py -t deepmind.html -s arxiv_dir
```
To test, run `sh test.sh`. This pre-downloads a publication page of deepmind.

You can also read only selected papers by `-i`, feeding their arxiv ids.
```
python -u run.py -i 1709.04905 1706.03762 -s arxiv_dir
```

- `-s`: Downloaded arxiv pages and files are stored into this directory.
- `-o`: Output is printed and saved as a json file with this file path. Default is `./comments.json`.

## Requirement

- requests
- lxml

## For Writers

You can remove `%`-comments from your file as follows:

```
perl -pe 's/(^|[^\\])%.*/\1%/' < old.tex > new.tex
```

This one line command is given from [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/help/faq/whytex).