Note sul campo
Una dozzina di PDF reggono un trilione di dollari di infrastrutture. Sono i paper in cui le idee sono comparse per la prima volta — la maggior parte è sorprendentemente accessibile, e ogni scheda qui spiega cosa ha contato, senza la matematica.
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Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Otto autori, un'architettura, tutto il resto da allora.
TC
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
La correzione che ha cambiato il modo in cui ogni modello viene addestrato.
DR
DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
La ricetta aperta per il ragionamento — pubblicata mentre i rivali tenevano la loro segreta.
Foundational papers
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Attention Is All You Need (2017)
The eight Google authors who invented the transformer.
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AlexNet (2012)
The ImageNet result that started the deep-learning era — on two gaming GPUs.
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Constitutional AI (2022)
Anthropic's method: models critique themselves against written principles.
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DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
The open recipe for reasoning models — a Nature cover, from a hedge fund's lab.
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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (2020)
The DDPM paper behind every image and video generator.
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FlashAttention (2022)
The kernel trick that made long context affordable.
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Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction (2021)
AlphaFold 2 in Nature — the result that won a Nobel.
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InstructGPT — RLHF at Scale (2022)
How raw language models became assistants people can use.
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Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
The GPT-3 paper: capability from scale, tasks from prompts.
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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation (2021)
Fine-tuning for the GPU-poor — tiny adapters instead of full weights.
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Kaplan et al.: loss falls as a power law in compute — the investment thesis, quantified.
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Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
DeepMind's correction: most models were undertrained on data.