ResearchAtlas is a curated paper atlas for systems, infrastructure, and algorithms behind modern AI. The repository is organized by year and broad technical area, with a venue-coverage pass that now represents every conference listed in COFERENCES.md.
- Last updated: 2026-03-11
- Years covered: 2022-2026
- Total papers tracked: 82
- Awesome Papers tracked: 17
- Test-of-Time / Influential awards tracked: 5
- Conference venues represented: 31 / 31
| Year | Papers | System | Distributed | AI | Compiler | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 2024 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Topic | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed Deep Learning | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Graph Neural Networks | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Explainable AI | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Sparse Matrix & Kernels | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Compiler Optimization | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Model Compression | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Model Quantization | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Hodgepodge | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| LLM Systems & Algorithms | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 3 |
| AI Infrastructure | 8 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 5 |
| MLIR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| CUDA Kernels | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| GPU Optimization | 3 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 3 |
| HPC | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
CATALOGUA.mdcontains the year-by-year, conference-grouped listing of all papers currently tracked in the atlas.
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figures/generate_topic_growth.py.
Awesome-Papers/
CATALOGUA.md
figures/
2022/
2023/
2024/
2025/
2026/
TOPICS.md
COFERENCES.md
AUTHORS&GROUPS.md
TEST_of_TIME.md
README.md
- All topics in
TOPICS.mdare represented at least once. - Every conference listed in
COFERENCES.mdis represented by at least one paper in the repository. Hodgepodgeis used for venue-coverage entries that are only weakly aligned with the atlas core topics.CATALOGUA.mdis generated from the tracked paper corpus and currently recordsAffiliations: N/Awhen affiliation data has not been explicitly verified.