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수십 편의 PDF가 수조 달러 규모 인프라의 토대를 이룬다. 이것이 아이디어가 처음 등장한 논문들이다 — 대부분 놀랍도록 읽기 쉬우며, 각 기록은 수식 없이 무엇이 중요했는지를 알려준다.
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AI
Attention Is All You Need (2017)
저자 여덟 명, 아키텍처 하나, 그 이후의 모든 것.
TC
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
모든 모델의 훈련 방식을 바꾼 수정.
DR
DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
공개된 추론의 레시피 — 경쟁사들이 비밀로 유지하는 동안 공개됨.
Foundational papers
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AI
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.
CA
Constitutional AI (2022)
Anthropic's method: models critique themselves against written principles.
DR
DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
The open recipe for reasoning models — a Nature cover, from a hedge fund's lab.
DD
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.
LL
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.
TC
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
DeepMind's correction: most models were undertrained on data.