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Main Authors: Teufelberger, Lukas, Liu, Xintong, Li, Zhipeng, Moebus, Max, Holz, Christian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21593
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author Teufelberger, Lukas
Liu, Xintong
Li, Zhipeng
Moebus, Max
Holz, Christian
author_facet Teufelberger, Lukas
Liu, Xintong
Li, Zhipeng
Moebus, Max
Holz, Christian
contents To enhance productivity and to streamline workflows, there is a growing trend to embed large language model (LLM) functionality into applications, from browser-based web apps to native apps that run on personal computers. Here, we introduce LLM-for-X, a system-wide shortcut layer that seamlessly augments any application with LLM services through a lightweight popup dialog. Our native layer seamlessly connects front-end applications to popular LLM backends, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, using their uniform chat front-ends as the programming interface or their custom API calls. We demonstrate the benefits of LLM-for-X across a wide variety of applications, including Microsoft Office, VSCode, and Adobe Acrobat as well as popular web apps such as Overleaf. In our evaluation, we compared LLM-for-X with ChatGPT's web interface in a series of tasks, showing that our approach can provide users with quick, efficient, and easy-to-use LLM assistance without context switching to support writing and reading tasks that is agnostic of the specific application.
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spellingShingle LLM-for-X: Application-agnostic Integration of Large Language Models to Support Personal Writing Workflows
Teufelberger, Lukas
Liu, Xintong
Li, Zhipeng
Moebus, Max
Holz, Christian
Human-Computer Interaction
To enhance productivity and to streamline workflows, there is a growing trend to embed large language model (LLM) functionality into applications, from browser-based web apps to native apps that run on personal computers. Here, we introduce LLM-for-X, a system-wide shortcut layer that seamlessly augments any application with LLM services through a lightweight popup dialog. Our native layer seamlessly connects front-end applications to popular LLM backends, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, using their uniform chat front-ends as the programming interface or their custom API calls. We demonstrate the benefits of LLM-for-X across a wide variety of applications, including Microsoft Office, VSCode, and Adobe Acrobat as well as popular web apps such as Overleaf. In our evaluation, we compared LLM-for-X with ChatGPT's web interface in a series of tasks, showing that our approach can provide users with quick, efficient, and easy-to-use LLM assistance without context switching to support writing and reading tasks that is agnostic of the specific application.
title LLM-for-X: Application-agnostic Integration of Large Language Models to Support Personal Writing Workflows
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21593