Paper Discussions

In this section I practice actually reading academic papers — not just the math, but the claim, the evidence, and where I’d push back. One paper at a time, using a simple template I fill in as I read.

Papers

• Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (Bahdanau et al., 2014) The paper that names the seq2seq bottleneck problem I found in my own translation experiment, and introduces attention as the fix.