Hidden gems tool surfaces underrated AI papers like TinyStories and 1-bit LLMs

omarsar0 · x · 2026-11-02

Sewon Min shared an arXiv discovery tool that lets you filter by field, sort by year, and browse a "Hidden gems" view highlighting undervalued high-impact papers.

The AI & ML hidden gems list includes Language Modeling Is Compression (Delétang et al., 2023), TinyStories (Eldan & Li, 2023), the 2025 study on early-2025 AI's impact on experienced open-source developer productivity, Emergent World Representations (Li et al., 2022), and The Era of 1-bit LLMs (2024). Their citation curves all show recent upticks, making it a handy shortlist for catching up on classics and new empirical work.

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