awesome-ai-research-papers
github.com/awesomelistsio/awesome-ai-research-papers ↗A curated list of seminal and influential research papers in artificial intelligence, covering key topics in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and AI ethics.
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Community
- AI Research Slack
A Slack community for AI research discussions.
- Papers with Code Community
A forum for discussing AI research and code implementations.
- Reddit: r/MachineLearning
A subreddit for sharing and discussing AI research papers.
Deep Learning
- AlexNet: ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (2012)
The paper that popularized deep convolutional neural networks.
- BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (2018)
The paper introducing BERT, a Transformer-based language model.
- Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (2015)
The introduction of ResNet, a deep residual network architecture.
- Generative Adversarial Nets (2014)
Ian Goodfellow’s paper on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning (1989)
One of the early comprehensive works on neural networks and deep learning.
Reinforcement Learning
- AlphaGo: Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search (2016)
The paper on AlphaGo, the first AI system to defeat a professional Go player.
- Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning (2016)
The introduction of A3C, an efficient reinforcement learning algorithm.
- DREAMER: Reinforcement Learning with Latent World Models (2019)
A paper on model-based reinforcement learning.
- Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2013)
The seminal paper introducing deep Q-networks (DQN).
- Proximal Policy Optimization (2017)
The introduction of PPO, a popular reinforcement learning algorithm.
Foundational Papers
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
Claude Shannon’s foundational work on information theory.
- Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey (1956)
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project proposal, considered the founding moment of AI as a field.
- Attention Is All You Need (2017)
The seminal paper that introduced the Transformer architecture.
- The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain (1958)
The original paper introducing the perceptron by Frank Rosenblatt.
Resources for Finding Research Papers
- arXiv.org
A repository for research papers across multiple disciplines, including AI.
- Google Scholar
A search engine for academic research papers.
- Papers with Code
A platform that connects research papers with code implementations.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- ELMo: Deep Contextualized Word Representations (2018)
The introduction of ELMo, a model for contextual word embeddings.
- GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation (2014)
The GloVe model for generating word embeddings.
- GPT-2: Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners (2019)
The paper introducing GPT-2, a powerful generative language model.
- The Illustrated Transformer (2018)
An accessible and visual explanation of the Transformer architecture.
- Word2Vec: Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space (2013)
The introduction of Word2Vec, a method for learning word embeddings.
AI Ethics and Fairness
- Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems (2018)
A foundational paper on fairness in AI systems.
- Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification (2018)
A study on bias in commercial AI systems.
- The Mythos of Model Interpretability (2017)
A critical examination of model interpretability.
Computer Vision
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks (2015)
A paper on a high-performance object detection framework.
- HOG: Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection (2005)
The paper introducing the HOG feature descriptor.
- NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis (2020)
The introduction of Neural Radiance Fields for 3D scene representation.
- Visual Transformer (2020)
The adaptation of Transformer architecture for computer vision tasks.
- YOLO: You Only Look Once - Unified, Real-Time Object Detection (2016)
The introduction of YOLO, a real-time object detection system.
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