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

A January-May 2026 list of notable LLM research papers, covering new models, training methods, agents, reasoning, and efficiency improvements.

A January-May 2026 list of notable LLM research papers, covering new models, training methods, agents, reasoning, and efficiency improvements.

Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude …

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

A curated list of LLM research papers from July–December 2025, organized by reasoning models, inference-time scaling, architectures, training efficiency, and...
Reasoning
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Papers With Code highlights trending Machine Learning research and the code to implement it.

2284 methods • 143838 papers with code.
Papers with Code indexes various machine learning artifacts — papers, code, results — to facilitate discovery and comparison. Using this…
**Representation Learning** is a process in machine learning where algorithms extract meaningful patterns from raw data to create representations that are easier to understand and process. These representations can be designed for interpretability, reveal hidden features, or be…
**Image Retrieval** is a fundamental and long-standing computer vision task that involves finding images similar to a provided query from a large database. It's often considered as a form of fine-grained, instance-level classification. Not just integral to image recognition…
**Denoising** is a task in image processing and computer vision that aims to remove or reduce noise from an image. Noise can be introduced into an image due to various reasons, such as camera sensor limitations, lighting conditions, and compression artifacts. The goal of…
**Domain Adaptation** is the task of adapting models across domains. This is motivated by the challenge where the test and training datasets fall from different data distributions due to some factor. Domain adaptation aims to build machine learning models that can be generalized…