maximerivest/paper-rewrites-for-young-readers

Paper rewrites for young readers

21,069 chat examples that teach a model to rewrite a research paper for a curious 12–14-year-old: the same paper, in the authors' own voice, keeping every result, number and uncertainty, in plain words. The source papers are 4,416 open-access (CC BY) articles from PubMed Central; the rewrites are synthetic, written by two frontier models with refined prompts.

It is the training data of maximerivest/qwen3.5-9b-paper-rewriter and maximerivest/qwen3.5-4b-paper-rewriter.

What one example looks like

Each paper gives up to five examples, one per call:

1. opening: from the whole paper, rewrite the title, abstract, first introduction paragraph and conclusion.
2. introduction_rest, methods, results, discussion: rewrite one section, given the rewritten opening.

Column
messages	system (the task), user (the paper or section, its reference glossary, the writer label), assistant (the rewrite, in tags)
call	opening or section
section	which part is rewritten
writer	writer_a (13,969 examples) or writer_b (7,100): which frontier model wrote the rewrite. The same label appears in the prompt as <writer>.
paper_id, paper_title, paper_doi, paper_license	the source paper

Each user message carries a reference glossary: definitions of the passage's technical terms from an offline copy of Wikipedia and Wiktionary, as - term (long form): definition [source].

Splits: train (20,874 examples) and validation (195 examples from 40 papers). The models' 3 benchmark papers are not in the dataset. When training, we skipped the 480 examples longer than 24,576 tokens.

The papers config lists every source paper: title, authors, journal, year, DOI, licence and link.

Licence and credit

• Source papers: all CC BY (4,167 CC BY 4.0, 6 CC BY 3.0 or 2.5, 243 "CC BY" without a version), checked in each paper's publisher file. The paper text in the prompts is unchanged. The rewrites are adaptations of those papers. Credit the original authors (see the papers config) and say the text was adapted.
• Glossary definitions come from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
• So the dataset as a whole is released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Limitations

• The rewrites are synthetic and were not checked by people. A judge found occasional errors: numbers attached to the wrong group, hedges made firmer, similar terms confused.
• Mostly life-science and environmental papers, all in English.
• Paper text was extracted automatically from PubMed Central XML; tables and figure captions may be incomplete.