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Duplicate citations #1109

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@pratik-narain

Describe the bug
Using quality or balance modes (deep research) with a local LLM (qwen 3 4b vl) generates a report with upto 100 or more citations but most them are duplicates of each other. For example, it links to the same research paper on pubmed, sciencedirect, google scholar and researchgate and cites it 4 times in the bibliography. This makes sorting citations very difficult.

To Reproduce
Search for a deep scientific topic (for eg. in biomedical research) using balance or quality modes. Use qwen 3 4b vl (mine is lemonade/fastflowlm on a ryzen ai NPU on arch linux) to reproduce exact behaviour. Q8 qwen 3 4b vl on llama.cpp vulkan behaves similarly. Selecting only "academic" sources tends to miss useful information on "non academic" (bioinformatics stack exchange) platform.

Expected behavior
Search results should be looked at by the LLM for same paper titles and repetitions should be discarded.

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