LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
A curated January-May 2026 list of notable LLM research papers by Sebastian Raschka.
Sebastian Raschka compiles a curated reference list of LLM papers he bookmarked from January through May 2026. The list is not comprehensive, but organized around topics useful for future articles, lectures, code examples, and research work. Public sections emphasize reasoning, RL, efficient inference, long context, agent systems, tool use, coding agents, diffusion language models, and serving infrastructure.
This Ahead of AI article is a list of LLM research papers compiled by Sebastian Raschka for January through May 2026. The author explains that this list continues his long-standing habit of saving papers he "wants to read, wants to reread, or might cite in future articles and projects," and it is not meant to cover all of this year's AI papers; given that a large number of papers are released every day, comprehensive coverage is not practical. As such, this is more of a curated reference list organized according to the author's work context and research interests.
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