Refreshments Room: Kolker Room (26-414)

SubMIT Overview & News

• Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Room: Kolker Room (26-414)

User Group Representatives Roundtable & Open Discussion

• Josu Aurrekoetxea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Jose Miguel Munoz Arias (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Jordan Lang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Amer Al-Hiyasat (MIT)
• Hans Moritz Guenther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Luke Kim (student@mit.edu)

Room: Kolker Room (26-414)

A2rchi – An Open Source LLM Framework

• Ivan Paus
• Pietro Lugato (student@mit.edu)
• Luca Lavezzo (MIT)

Room: Kolker Room (26-414) A2rchi (AI Augmented Research Chat Intelligence) is an open source, end-to-end framework to quickly build an AI support agent for classes and research resources developed jointly by faculty and students in MIT’s physics and computer science departments. It has already been successfully deployed for SubMIT, the private cloud at MIT’s Physic Department, and for the 8.01 and 8.511 courses. A2rchi allows students to quickly find help on how to use the SubMIT infrastructure or helps TAs to answer questions on Piazza. These test deployments demonstrated that A2rchi can significantly reduce the load on TAs, Lecturers, and support staff. In contrast, to other GenAI chat support solutions, A2rchi is fully open-source, works with different foundational models, and most importantly is integrated with Piazza and Redmine, a widely used open-source flexible project management web application including a ticketing system. (see: [ppc.mit.edu/a2/](https://ppc.mit.edu/a2/))

Followup Discussion Room: Kolker Room (26-414)