Didn’t mean to say those papers are completely useless, but even for those with a strong Math/ML background I would advise starting with recent survey papers. Reading “Attention is All You Need” is kind of like reading the General Relativity papers of Einstein - cool as a historical curiosity, but not ideal for optimizing expertise acquisition.
Not to start an argument here but I can’t imagine anybody with any level of understanding who should start diving deeper by reading the “Attention is All You Need” paper. Yes, this is a diverse community, but when you try to address everybody’s needs, you usually end up with addressing nobody’s needs.
Thanks but here’s the problem with this list: most of the papers mentioned are on a very high technical level, and people who would be able to understand them are probably people who have already read them. Note that Andrej was careful to keep the material at a certain level because he addresses those who want to go one step further than talking to ChatGPT, without necessarily understanding all the underlying theory.
Indubitably.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04554
If you’re trying to learn more about language models don’t bother with anything written before 2020. That’s basically the Stone Age.