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PAPER
INDEX.

A reading log for papers that changed, challenged or clarified the mental models in this archive. Summaries focus on ideas worth carrying forward.

P-0091

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Memory stream, reflection and planning as a practical decomposition for persistent simulated agents.

AGENTS
MEMORY
SIMULATION
ANNOTATED
P-0003

Attention Is All You Need

The architectural pivot that made attention the dominant primitive for sequence modeling.

TRANSFORMERS
ATTENTION
SEQUENCE
REFERENCE
P-0062

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP

Separating parametric memory from external retrieval as a way to ground generation in retrievable evidence.

RAG
RETRIEVAL
GROUNDING
ANNOTATED
P-0118

Inference-Time Search and Deliberation

A collection note on allocating additional compute when uncertainty or task complexity justifies it.

REASONING
SEARCH
COMPUTE
SYNTHESIS
P-0121

Long-Horizon Tool Use with Persistent State

Design patterns for keeping state legible when tasks span many external actions and partial failures.

TOOLS
STATE
AGENTS
QUEUED
P-0124

Long-Context Retrieval Beyond Nearest Neighbors

Why routing, structured filtering and hierarchy matter when the evidence space becomes heterogeneous.

CONTEXT
ROUTING
SEARCH
QUEUED