A 6-month roadmap for students to break into ML research, from paper reproduction to contacting labs
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-10-30
An AI-community author shares a six-month roadmap for students entering ML research: month 1, math + PyTorch; month 2, reproduce a classic paper; month 3, deeply understand a recent paper; month 4, reproduce its main experiment; month 5, run ablations and try one modification; month 6, write up results and contact labs. The author is soliciting feedback from working researchers on what to change.
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