In June, I shared a bonus article with my curated and bookmarked research paper lists to the paid subscribers who make this Substack possible.In a similar vein, as a thank-you to all the kind supporters, I have prepared a list below of the interesting research articles I bookmarked and categorized from July to December 2025.I skimmed over the abstracts of these papers but only read a very small fraction. However, I still like to keep collecting these organized lists as I often go back to them when working on a given project.By the way, I was also working on my annual LLM review article, State of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions, which I published today as well. You can find it here:\u200bhttps:\/\/magazine.sebastianraschka.com\/p\/state-of-llms-2025\u200bOriginally, I planned to include this list in the article above. However, the article was already getting quite long, so I decided to share the list here in a separate post instead. I hope you do not mind receiving two emails today. My thinking was that splitting things up would make both articles easier to read, scan, and revisit later without getting lost in an overly long page.The categories for this research paper list are as follows (you can use the table of contents in the web view of this article to navigate to them directly):Reasoning Models1a. Training Reasoning Models1b. Inference-Time Reasoning Strategies1c. Evaluating LLMs and\/or Understanding ReasoningOther Reinforcement Learning Methods for LLMsOther Inference-Time Scaling MethodsModel Releases \/ Technical ReportsArchitecturesEfficient TrainingDiffusion-Based Language ModelsMultimodal & Vision-Language ModelsData & Pre-training Datasets<\/p>\n
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