LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May) As some of you know, I have the long-running habit of keeping a running list of research papers I want to read, revisit, or cite in future articles and projects. Last year, I shared two organized paper lists, one covering January to June and another one covering July to December. Several readers told me that these lists were very useful, so, in a similar spirit, I prepared a new list for the first half of 2026. This one covers papers I bookmarked from January through May 2026. Please do not treat this as a complete list of everything published this year. There are so many papers published every day that this would be totally infeasible. Instead, this is a curated reference list based on papers I found interesting or relevant for my own…