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Weekly readings, in plain language.

One paper a week, summarized so a first-year can follow it, with a link to the source. The log lives right here.

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The entries below are examples of the format, until the real readings begin.

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Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017)

  • transformers
  • NLP

The paper that introduced the Transformer. It removed recurrence from sequence models and replaced it with attention: a mechanism that lets every token look directly at every other token. Nearly every large model today is built on this architecture.

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Earlier weeks

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Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (He et al., 2015)

  • vision
  • architectures

Deeper networks were supposed to be better, yet past a certain depth they got worse. ResNets fixed this with one idea: let each layer learn only the change it needs to make. The result trained networks over a hundred layers deep and won ImageNet 2015.

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But what is a neural network? (3Blue1Brown, 2017)

  • foundations
  • video

Not a paper: a visual essay. Grant Sanderson builds a neural network from nothing, and it is still the clearest hour you can spend on the subject. Our own landing animation borrows its mental model.

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