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04 / THE PAPERS

Paper Readings

Read the paper. Understand the mechanism. Examine the evidence.

A personal record of research papers I have read, with close readings of their methods, experiments, limitations, and implications for research and engineering.

  • LLM & VLM
  • Inference & training
  • Hardware & systems
  • Agents & multimodal AI

READING ARCHIVE

Close readings

Inside a close reading

From claims to understanding

  1. The source. Paper title, authors, publication and version, original link, code, and reading date.
  2. The mechanism. Problem, prior approaches, core idea, equations, architecture, and original figures.
  3. The evidence. Experimental setup, baselines, results, ablations, and limitations.
  4. The takeaway. Personal insights, engineering relevance, and open questions, separate from the paper's claims.