A Snappy TeX Workflow for Reports
Using GPT-3 or similar LLM we can quickly create error-free KaTeX
Created on February 8|Last edited on April 28
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Introduction
When reading through a new piece of research that is shown on PapersWithCode I'll create a Report to use as I read through the research paper. Oftentimes, I'm performing a literature review of several papers in a DL subfield and so, to organize the most-salient features of the papers, or to jot down some facts that help in creating a mental model of the research space I'll make use of a Report. While Reports are great for pure text data, images, and dynamic charts if you're training a model, if you're like me writing from scratch or 'translating' your on-paper scribbles to isn't always the most expedient workflow! A time-saving workflow for adding to your Reports is outlined below. So read on if you'd like a fast, streamlined workflow for getting complex mathematical equations – snippets from papers, into your Weights & Biases Reports in short order!
Fast ( in a Report
A quick workflow for rendering inside your Report from a handwritten math equation or from a snippet of text that you've found on the web is to do the following steps.
- Grab an image of the text that you want to render using :
- you can write the math on a piece of paper and snap a photo of it
- you can copy-paste or upload in a PNG or JPG image that you've found on the web
- you can upload an entire PDF that has some -typeset text in it somewhere
2. Go to https://snip.mathpix.com/ ; you'll need to create an account first there if you don't already have one. There's a Chrome browser extension, you can use the snip.mathpix.com website, or you can even use their CLI to render your math text as .
MathPix Snip section
The picture of the term-document matrix is transformed into LaTeX markup language, below
Click on the copy icon next to the 'flavor' of typeset text that you would like; MathPix copies the markup text to your clipboard.
3. Because your Report actually wants -formatted instead, head on over to one of the following tools and ask it to convert your chunk of in .
ChatGPT creates the same output as GPT-3, however, it then decides to typeset the markup snippet in the browser, resulting in the following:
A pretty matrix, but of no help if we want to paste the TeX markup into our Report
- YouChat: I wouldn't recommend this tool as of February 2023 as the inline rendering breaks the formatting of TeX snippets by removing slashes and backslashes.
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Andrea •
YouChat: I wouldn't recommend this tool as of February 2023 as the inline rendering breaks the formatting of TeX snippets by removing slashes and backslashes.
2023-02-08: Ticket filed with You.com outlining the issue with the slashes and backslashes being 'eaten' when the YouChat agent 'is typing'.
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