The AI Papers Iceberg: From Attention to Obscure RL Papers in 7 Tiers
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-08
An "AI papers iceberg" chart is going viral, ranking 100 papers by familiarity: from must-reads like Attention Is All You Need and the GPT-4 report, through LoRA, CoT, DPO and the DeepSeek lineage, down to obscure work on sparse autoencoders, positional interpolation and KV-Cache eviction. The deeper you go, the fewer people have actually read them.
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