We are currently facing a surge in digital scientific publications, known as "big literature", creating challenges in understanding literature landscapes through traditional manual reviews.
Recent large language models (LLMs) are proficient in literature comprehension, but they fall short in providing the desired comprehensive, objective, open, and transparent views for systematic reviews.
LitChat is introduced as an end-to-end, interactive literature agent that enhances LLM agents with data-driven tools for exploring literature through user queries interpretation, source retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and evidence-based insights generation.
The effectiveness of LitChat is demonstrated through a case study on AI4Health, showcasing its ability to swiftly navigate users through vast literature landscapes with data-supported insights, which are challenging to obtain using traditional methods.