AI assistants & evaluation · 2025

AI Assistants to Enhance and Exploit the PETSc Knowledge Base

Barry Smith, Junchao Zhang, Hong Zhang, Lois Curfman McInnes, Murat Keçeli, Archit Vasan, Satish Balay, Toby Isaac, Le Chen, Venkatram Vishwanath

arXiv:2506.20608 (2025)

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Summary

Describes the PETSc team's LLM-powered system—RAG, reranking, and chatbots over source code, documentation, mailing lists, and issues—to make three decades of fragmented PETSc knowledge accessible to users and developers.

Keywords

PETScknowledge baseretrieval-augmented generationchatbotsscientific softwareLLM assistants

Cite

@article{2025_smith_petsc_ai_assistants,
  title = {AI Assistants to Enhance and Exploit the PETSc Knowledge Base},
  author = {Barry Smith and Junchao Zhang and Hong Zhang and Lois Curfman McInnes and Murat Keçeli and Archit Vasan and Satish Balay and Toby Isaac and Le Chen and Venkatram Vishwanath},
  journal = {arXiv:2506.20608 (2025)},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2506.20608},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}