Reading Papers

Things to look for when reading papers.

How I read papers

I'm not very experienced but here is how I read papers:

• Watch their video.
  • Their video will give a high-level summary. Usually video explanations are faster/easier to understand.
  • Sometimes they show their results. Pay attention to problems in their results.
  • If they don't have a video, look for a third-party one on YouTube.
• Read the abstract.
• Look through all figures and captions.
• Read the Intro and Methods.
  • Tells you the problem they're addressing and their approach to addressing it.
  • What is the input to and output of their pipeline?
• Read the Related Works section.
  • This gives you an idea of what others have tried. Especially important if you don't work in the field.
• Read the Evaluation section.
  • Usually this is just a bunch of tables and numbers but it can give you links to datasets and a reference for some benchmarks.
  • This is important if you plan on building upon the work.

Resources

• Yannic Kilcher How I Read a Paper