LocalPilot : added local paper reading to autoresearch

[2imi9]

Forked autoresearch and replaced random perturbation with a pipeline that
browses arXiv before proposing changes.

MolmoWeb-4B reads papers visually (screenshots, figures, tables),
Qwen3.5-9B orchestrates, Devstral-24B writes the patch.

Got 1.268 → 1.1507 BPB in 64 experiments. Single run so take it with
a grain of salt, but every improvement cites a paper.

All local, single GPU, no APIs.

https://github.com/2imi9/LocalPilot

[connerlambden]

Cool approach running everything locally. For an alternative paper discovery layer that could feed into the pipeline, BGPT MCP indexes structured experimental data from full-text papers — methods, results, sample sizes, statistical analyses — not just abstracts.

Could pair well with your local reading setup: use BGPT to find relevant papers with structured data, then have MolmoWeb do the deep visual reading on the most promising ones.

{"mcpServers": {"bgpt": {"command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "bgpt-mcp"]}}}

50 free searches, no API key.