2026 January to May List of LLM Research Papers: Sebastian Raschka
Sebastian Raschka has published a curated list of significant LLM research papers from January to May 2026, focusing on topics relevant to his current work. The collection highlights trends in hybrid architectures, reinforcement learning, and efficient inference, while noting a growing interest in agent systems and diffusion language models. Raschka emphasizes that the list is a personal reference tool rather than a comprehensive catalog of all publications, with Nemotron 3 Super identified as a key architectural development.
- ▪The article presents a curated list of LLM research papers bookmarked by Sebastian Raschka between January and May 2026.
- ▪Key research themes include reasoning models, reinforcement learning, efficient inference, and agent harnesses.
- ▪Nemotron 3 Super is highlighted as a notable hybrid architecture that alternates between attention and Mamba-2 layers for long-context efficiency.
- ▪The author notes that the list is biased toward his current professional interests and does not represent every paper published during the period.
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LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)Sebastian Raschka, PhDJun 06, 2026∙ Paid90312ShareAs 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.
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