LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)

A topic-organized collection of 200+ LLM research papers from 2025

LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)

In June, I shared a bonus article with my curated and bookmarked research paper lists to the paid subscribers who make this Substack possible.

2023, year of open LLMs

Note on 18th September 2026

Simon Willison reflects on his current disinterest in large language models (LLMs), comparing it to a geneticist dismissing the newly opened Jurassic Park. He emphasizes that this stance feels odd given the excitement surrounding LLMs. The note highlights his personal stance on AI and generative‑AI topics.

LLM-Generated or Human-Written? Comparing Review and Non-Review Papers on ArXiv

arXiv:2601.17036v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: ArXiv recently prohibited the upload of unpublished review papers to its servers in the Computer Science domain, citing a high prevalence of...

LLM assisted writing deserves empirical evaluation

arXiv:2608.22124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-assisted writing is often treated as a detection problem, as it raises questions about clarity, integrity, equity, and evaluation. An analysis of 6...

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026

A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026

Welcome Llama 3 - Meta's new open LLM

How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide

The article "How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide" offers a practical, hands‑on walkthrough for fine‑tuning large language models in real‑world scenarios. It covers the entire process from data preparation to deployment, providing readers with actionable steps to adapt LLMs to specific tasks. The guide is aimed at practitioners looking to implement fine‑tuning in a structured, end‑to‑end manner.

The Exact ML Project I’d Build to Get Hired in 2026

Follow this framework to build a project that will impress hiring managers The post The Exact ML Project I’d Build to Get Hired in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Most biomedical publications show signs of LLM-assisted writing

arXiv:2608. 10715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past several years, LLM-powered chatbots and agents have become widely used as a tool for academic writing.