---
tags: paper reading
---

# 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733m6qBH-jI) of how to read paper

## Reading in four steps:
1. Title/abstract/figures
2. Introduction/Conclusion + figures (skim related work)
3. Read but skip the math
4. 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