Sebastian Raschka • 6/6/2026

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

This article by Sebastian Raschka presents a curated list of notable LLM research papers from January to May 2026, organized into categories such as architecture and model design, efficient training, inference efficiency, reasoning, reinforcement learning, agent systems, coding agents, diffusion language models, and benchmarks. It emphasizes trends like hybrid architectures, state space layers, and practical serving infrastructure. The list is intended as a personal reference for the author but shared as a resource for others in the field.

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#Reinforcement Learning #Reasoning Models #LLM Research