Guidelines on How to Read Papers

Find Related Paper

If you have a topic of interest, you can search them in Arxiv, DBLP, Google Scholar etc.

In addition, in our daily lives, we can take time to browse the following websites every day:

• Daily Papers by AK and the research community: There are recommended papers with voting numbers every day.

  • X: Yes, X is a great platform where we can find some interesting papers.

For Chinese:

• Cool Papers: This is a website created by Jianlin Su, based on Kimi Chat.

• Red: Like X.com, but more suitable for Chinese.

Extensive or Intensive Reading?

Followed by Mu Li: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1H44y1t75x

When you download a paper:

• First of all, you need to read the Title, Abstract and Conclusion sections (further, you can glance at the result tables/figures, even the framework figure).

• Then, if you think this paper matches your topic/question, please do intensive reading.

In this part, you can also use AI to help you select suitable papers, such as ChatGPT, Kimi Chat, etc.

Intensive Reading

For intensive reading, we recommend recursive reading:

• As you read this paper, also focus on the references that match your topic.

• Check which works follow this paper on Google Scholar.

When reading, you should focus on some information/question:

• What is its motivation?

• How the detailed method is designed?

• What conclusions can be drawn?

• What are the shortcomings of this approach?

• How do I apply to the topic I care about?