Academic Paper Reading

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 Sep 19 7:55
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2025 Nov 26 13:56
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Intuition → Experimental Results → Details - read in this order, then check if charts and experimental results are convincing. The key is to skim through most papers quickly and read only a few good papers deeply.
Just sit down and start chewing on it. Don't think: I should finish this within X days/weeks/years.
Scalability
is an important criterion - if it's not scalable, you don't need to worry about it much
  1. Abstract
  1. Diagram
  1. Method
  1. Limitation

Paper Picking

  1. List up tier-1 conferences in the field you want to follow
  1. Check all accepted papers from the conference
  1. Filter once by title, then by abstract to select papers to read in full
  1. Select papers that fit your research topic
  1. Read them over the course of a month
 
 
 
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