KaleabTessera / Research-Paper-Reading-Template

A markdown template for taking notes to summarize research papers.

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[Title]

Quick Look

Authors: [Authors]

Date Published : [Date published or submitted.]

Link : [Paper link]

Comments: [e.g. Published at X / arXiv paper/ in review.]

TLDR: [One or at most two line summary.]

Relevance: [Score between 1 and 5, stating how relevant this paper is to your work. Usually filled in at the end. ]

Tags: [General or specific research topic tags e.g. rl, nlp or efficient-nlp. Could also be used to specify the conference this was accepted at or any useful grouping.]

Paper summary (What)

[Summary of the paper - a few sentences with bullet points. What did they do? What is their hypothesis? ]

Issues addressed by the paper (Why)

[What are the issues that the paper addresses? Describe the problem. Why did they write this paper?]

Detailed Information (How)

[ Only for work that appears to be highly related from reading abstract/intro/conclusion.]

Problem Setting

[ What is the problem setting e.g. regression, classification or sequence prediction? In RL, this would also include the environment and details about rewards etc. This should include the evaluation setting for the results. ]

Methodology

[How did they approach the problem. What methods did they use?]

Assumptions

[What assumptions were made and are these assumptions valid?]

Prominent Formulas

[Can be empty]

Results

[Theoretical or empirical results (any main graphs and tables). Also try to possibly mention why you or the authors think certain results occurred. ]

Limitations

[Did the authors mention any reservations/limitations to their work or methodology? Do you see any limitations of their work?]

Confusing aspects of the paper

[Is there anything that is confusing and could need better explanations or references?]

Conclusions

The author's conclusions

[What is the author's conclusion? What do they claim about their results?]

My Conclusion

[What do you think about the work presented in the article? Did the authors manage to achieve what they set out to achieve?]

Rating

[Fine, Good, Great]

Possible future work / improvements

[Can you think of ways to improve this paper or ideas for future work?]

Relation to Own Work

[If related to own work.]

  • What can we learn from their approach:
  • How are we different:

Extra

  • Cited references to follow up on/related papers/check google scholar for papers citing this paper:
  • Source code/blog/twitter thread/other links:

References

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A markdown template for taking notes to summarize research papers.