How to read a paper
Don't read the paper from first word until the last word.
That is suck if you do though.
There is a guideline from Standford CS230:Deep learning|Autumn 2018|Lecture 8-Career Advice / Reading Research Paper of how to read paper
Reading in four steps:
- Title/abstract/figures
- Introduction/Conclusion + figures (skim related work)
- Read but skip the math
- Read the whole thing but skip parts that don't make sense
When you read a paper in a few minutes, you should ask that
- What do the authors try to accomplish?
- What were the key elements of the approach?
- What can you use yourself?
- What other reference do you want to follow?
Where do you go
- Twitter
- ML Subreddit
- NIPS/ICML/ICLR
- FRIENDS
Go DEEPER
- Math
- Read through it take detailed notes and then see if you can re-derive it from scratch.
- Program
- Run the source code
- Reimplement it from scratch
General advice
Steadily reading not short bursts