15 classic AI papers every engineer should read, from Transformers to RLHF
kalyan_kpl · x · 2026-07-23
A reposted list of 15 foundational AI papers every engineer should know, spanning Transformers, LoRA, PEFT, ViT, VAE, GANs, BERT, diffusion, RAG, GPT-3, MoE, RLHF, and more.
- Focuses on canonical papers rather than a new release.
- Useful as a reading map for model architecture, fine-tuning, retrieval, and alignment.
- The post appears truncated after listing LLaMA, but the core point is a curated classics list.
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