THE RESEARCH ATLAS

Efficient AI training papers

Efficient attention, low-rank adaptation, sparse experts and inference optimization. Read compute, memory and task quality together.

2026-10-19 · OpenAI · Official research articleInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Advancing coding in low-resource programming languages

Official research discussion of improving coding capabilities in languages with less available training material.

2026-10-16 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment

Models assess their own conversations as an additional misuse-detection layer, reusing cached context to limit overhead.

2026-10-11 · Deep Robotics · Research paperCredited institutions · Zhejiang University / DEEP Robotics 🇨🇳 China

PointWalker: Mapless Quadruped Locomotion Directly From Raw LiDAR Point Clouds

Fuses LiDAR point clouds and proprioception through attention, connecting terrain perception with a reinforcement-learned quadruped policy.

2026-09-10 · DeepSeek · Official research articleInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient

Official release introducing an asymmetric causal encoder-decoder architecture and linking its technical report and model resources.

2026-03 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report

An open-weight model for coding agents explores strong training recipes with a small active parameter footprint.

2026-01 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3-ASR Technical Report

A speech-recognition family and a forced-alignment model address multilingual transcription and timestamp prediction.

2025-12 · DeepSeek · Technical reportInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

Sparse attention and post-training methods are combined to improve efficiency, reasoning and agent-oriented behavior.

2025-08 · OpenAI · Model cardInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

Open-weight reasoning models are described through their architecture, training, capabilities and safety evaluations.

2025-06 · Hugging Face · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Hugging Face ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics

A compact vision-language-action model explores accessible robot learning and an efficient inference pipeline.

2025-05 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3 Technical Report

Dense and mixture-of-experts models integrate thinking and non-thinking behavior, with configurable inference-time reasoning.

2024-12 · DeepSeek · Technical reportInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

A mixture-of-experts language model combines architectural and training-efficiency techniques, including latent attention and multi-token prediction.

2024-01-08 · Mistral AI · Research paperInstitution base · Mistral AI 🇫🇷 France

Mixtral of Experts

Introduces a sparse mixture-of-experts model exploring model capacity and activated computation.

2023-05 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · Stanford University 🇺🇸 United States

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

A preference-based objective optimizes a language model directly, avoiding a separate reward-model training stage.

2022-05 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · Stanford University / University at Buffalo 🇺🇸 United States

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness

An IO-aware attention algorithm reduces memory transfers while computing exact attention.

2022-03 · Google · Research paperCredited institutions · DeepMind 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

The study examines how to allocate a training-compute budget between model size and training data.

2021-06 · Microsoft · Research paperCredited institutions · Microsoft / Carnegie Mellon University 🇺🇸 United States

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Low-rank trainable updates adapt a frozen pretrained model without updating all of its parameters.

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