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Find the next paper that makes the field click.
Start from one clear catalog, choose a field, and continue on a dedicated roadmap page. Every list is bounded, ordered by prerequisite, and changes require human review.
Roadmap catalog
Choose a field
The home page helps you choose. Each card opens a separate page with that field's levels, paper notes, prerequisites, and saved reading progress.
LLMs & Transformers
From the first dense word vectors to frontier reasoning models — the architectures, the scaling laws, and the alignment recipes that produced ChatGPT and its descendants.
Open roadmap 02Computer Vision
From hand-engineered convnets on MNIST to general-purpose vision foundation models — the network designs, the loss functions, and the diffusion processes that built modern visual AI.
Open roadmap 03Reinforcement Learning
From dynamic programming and TD learning to AlphaGo and human-feedback fine-tuning — the policies, values, and self-play recipes that built modern decision-making systems.
Open roadmap 04Distributed Systems
From Lamport clocks to globally consistent transactions — the consensus protocols, storage architectures, and coordination primitives that make the cloud actually work.
Open roadmap 05Graph Neural Networks
From random-walk embeddings to molecular structure prediction — how neural networks learned to operate on graphs and unlocked science applications from drug discovery to AlphaFold.
Open roadmap 06Database Systems
From the relational model to learned indexes — the data structures, transaction protocols, and storage architectures that organise the world's information.
Open roadmap 07Cryptography
From Shannon's information-theoretic secrecy to post-quantum lattices — the mathematical primitives, security definitions, and protocols that secure modern systems.
Open roadmap 08Information Retrieval
From tf-idf to neural retrievers — how systems learned to find the right documents (and now the right passages) for a query, and how that became the foundation of modern search and RAG.
Open roadmap 09Computer Architecture
From the von Neumann report to AI accelerators and side-channel attacks — the design choices, performance walls, and security boundaries shaping what software actually runs on.
Open roadmap 10Computational Biology
From dynamic-programming alignment to AlphaFold and protein design — how algorithms went from finding motifs in DNA to predicting and engineering biological structure.
Open roadmap 11Programming Languages
From Turing's computable numbers to verified compilers and dependent types — the type theories, semantics, and verification techniques that decide what counts as a correct program.
Open roadmap 12Machine Learning Systems
From mixed-precision arithmetic to trillion-parameter training runs and paged KV caches — the frameworks, parallelism strategies, and serving engines that turn models into products.
Open roadmapA calmer way into research
From orientation to understanding
Pick one field
Use the catalog to compare scope, length, and the size of each focused path.
Start at your level
Roadmap levels are field-specific. Begin where the prerequisites already feel familiar.
Read with context
Open each paper with a concise explanation of what it adds and what should come first.
Trust the path
Curation quality is the product.
This is not an exhaustive bibliography or a live feed. Additions should close a real conceptual gap, use open primary sources, and receive human editorial review.