现场笔记
十几份PDF,撑起了价值万亿美元的基础设施。这些论文记录了最初的思想火花——大多数出乎意料地易读,每条记录都告诉你什么才是关键,无需涉及数学。
从这三个开始
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Attention Is All You Need (2017)
八位作者,一种架构,以及此后的一切。
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Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
改变了每个模型训练方式的那次修正。
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DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
推理的开放配方——在竞争对手秘而不宣之际公开发布。
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.