Research desk
The papers behind how we build
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.
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- 2017NeurIPS 2017PublishedCurated
Attention Is All You Need
Introduces the transformer: a sequence model built entirely from attention, with no recurrence and no convolution. Because every position is computed in parallel, the architecture scales to far larger training runs than the recurrent models it replaced.
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Foundations
The architectures and pre-training results everything else stands on.
3 entries
Retrieval & RAG
Grounding a model in documents you actually own.
5 entries
Reasoning
Getting a model to show its work, and checking the work.
6 entries
Agents & Tool Use
Models that call tools, hold state, and finish multi-step jobs.
8 entries
Adaptation
Changing what a model does without retraining all of it.
4 entries
Alignment
Steering outputs toward what a person would accept.
6 entries
Evaluation
How you know it works before a customer finds out it does not.
11 entries