Research desk
An annotated reading list. Every entry is credited to its original authors, with a note on what it changes once the idea meets a real system.
1 entry
Argues that accuracy alone is a misleading summary of a language model, and evaluates a set of models across many scenarios and many metrics at once, including calibration, robustness, fairness and efficiency, so the trade-offs stay visible.
The architectures and pre-training results everything else stands on.
3 entries
Grounding a model in documents you actually own.
4 entries
Getting a model to show its work, and checking the work.
5 entries
Models that call tools, hold state, and finish multi-step jobs.
6 entries
Changing what a model does without retraining all of it.
3 entries
Steering outputs toward what a person would accept.
3 entries
How you know it works before a customer finds out it does not.
5 entries