papers-we-love

Papers We Love is a community built around reading and discussing academic computer science papers. This repository is its directory, gathering papers scattered across the web into one place.

The README describes Papers We Love as a community built around reading, discussing, and learning more about academic computer science papers. The repository acts as a directory of some of the best papers the community can find, pulling together documents scattered across the web. The homepage is paperswelove.org, and the primary language is listed as Shell.

Licenses get in the way of hosting. The README is direct about it: the project cannot always host the papers themselves. When it can, a scroll emoji marks the entry. Otherwise readers get a link to where the paper actually lives. The directory points you to the original documents instead of pretending to be a library.

Local chapter meetups are the social core, and the README invites people to stop by and join the discussions. A Discord server covers events, the content in this repository, and anything else related to the project. Pull requests are welcome for papers that should be added, better organization of what is already there, and links to other paper repositories worth pointing to.

The README recommends alphaXiv, which adds a discussion layer by swapping arxiv for alphaxiv in an arXiv URL, and Google Scholar as another place to look. A wiki page collects blogs, books, and exchanges worth reading. There is also guidance on how to read a paper, with the reminder that reading one is not like reading a blog post or a novel.

The name Papers We Love and the organization's logos are copyrighted and owned by Papers We Love Ltd, with all rights reserved. Starting a chapter means reviewing the guidelines and asking about logo use. A download script can scrape the markdown files for links to PDFs and pull the papers into their directories.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README