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

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

A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year

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

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

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.

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year

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arXiv:2601.17036v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: ArXiv recently prohibited the upload of unpublished review papers to its servers in the Computer Science domain, citing a high prevalence of...

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 .

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

The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions

A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.

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...

4 Claude Skills Every Data Scientist Needs in 2026

The article lists four skills that data scientists should acquire to stay competitive in 2026. It emphasizes the importance of integrating these skills into current workflows to avoid falling behind. The post was originally published on Towards Data Science.