Paper Note

Copy this to notes/papers/<citekey>.md and fill it in during the same session you read the paper. Keep the field order — a fixed schema is what makes notes comparable and comparable notes are what fill the literature matrix.

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Citekey: authorYearShorttitle Full citation: Authors. Title. Venue, Year. Venue tier: (top-tier / solid / workshop / preprint) Passes done: (1 / 2 / 3) Date read: Core paper? (yes = must know cold for the defense / no)

Claim (one sentence, your own words)

What do they claim to have achieved? Do not paste the abstract — the compression is the point.

Approach

Two or three sentences. What did they build or do, mechanically?

How they evaluated it

The most valuable field. Be specific.

• Workloads:
• Baselines: (and were they tuned?)
• Hardware:
• Metrics:
• Repetitions / variance reported:

What they did not do

Where thesis gaps come from. Be specific rather than dismissive.

• Unmeasured costs (inference latency, memory, training, cold start):
• Workloads or regimes not tested:
• Assumptions stated or implied:
• Generalization tested? (held-out workloads, distribution shift):

Relation to my work

• I build on:
• I compare against:
• THREAT to my novelty? (mark explicitly if this is close to your idea, and say how close)

Quotable

"..." — p. N

Follow-up

Papers to read from its references or citing it: