How It Works
[The Problem] As scientists ourselves we realize that keeping abreast the arXiv was taking too many hours from research (or pretending to research). To help deal with the information overload, we needed a way to cut down on the material we needed to cover, without missing out on important or interesting papers that our peers were publishing.
[ yourXiv ] alleviates the information overload issue by helping you filter the deluge of articles.
[How it Works] When you start using yourXiv, yourXiv contains all the information the arXiv does. In your preferences, you can set which arXivs you care about. To further reduce the load, you can define a maximum percentage of each arXiv you want to see. For example, if you choose to see 60% of the High Energy Physics arXiv, yourXiv will show you only the top 60% of High Energy Physics articles.
As you continue using yourXiv, it gets better. The following 2 features require us to learn more about you before they begin to take effect:
[Classification] As you continue to use yourXiv, you train a classification algorithm that learns what type of articles you have are interested in. The engine is trained on the entire text of every article you read, so you won't miss anything. The more you use yourXiv, the smarter it gets.
[Collaborative Filtering] Because its important to know what your peers are reading, your reading history is also compared against every other user of yourXiv. Academics in the same field read similar articles, so our ranking system includes a slight bias to include articles that readers similiar to yourself have read.
