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**Papers We Love** (*PWL*) is a community built around reading, discussing and learning more about academic computer science papers. This repository serves as a directory of some of the best papers the community can find, bringing together documents scattered across the web. You can also visit the [Papers We Love site ](http://paperswelove.org/ ) for more info.
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Due to [licenses ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#respect-content-licenses ) we cannot always host the papers themselves (when we do, you will see a :scroll: emoji next to its title in the directory README) but we can provide links to their locations.
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If you enjoy the papers, perhaps stop by a local chapter meetup and join in on the vibrant discussions around them. You can also discuss *PWL* events, the content in this repository, and/or anything related to *PWL* on our [Slack ](https://paperswelove.slack.com/messages/general/ ), after [signing-up ](http://papersweloveslack.herokuapp.com/ ) to join it, or on our *#paperswelove* IRC channel on freenode.
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### Chapters
Here are our official chapters. Let us know if you are interested in [starting one ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Creating-a-PWL-chapter ) in your city!
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* [Amsterdam ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-amsterdam/ )
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* [Athens ](https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Athens )
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* [Atlanta ](https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Atlanta )
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* [Bangalore ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-we-love-Bangalore/ )
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* [Barcelona ](https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-bcn/ )
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* [Belfast ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Belfast/ )
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* [Berlin ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Berlin/ )
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* [Bhubaneswar ](https://www.facebook.com/groups/pwlbbsr/ )
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* [Boston ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Boston-Cambridge/ )
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* [Brasilia ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-bsb )
* [Bucharest ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-bucharest/ )
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* [Buenos Aires ](https://paperswelove.org/buenos-aires/ )
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* [Cairo ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Cairo/ )
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* [Chattanooga ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Chattanooga/ )
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* [Chicago ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-chicago/ )
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* [Columbus, Ohio ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Columbus/ )
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* [Gothenburg ](https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Gothenburg/ )
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* [Hamburg ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Hamburg/ )
* [Hyderabad ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-hyderabad/ )
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* [Iowa City ](https://www.meetup.com/techcorridorio )
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* [Kathmandu ](https://www.facebook.com/groups/PapersWeLoveKathmandu/ )
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* [Kyiv ](https://www.facebook.com/groups/PapersWeLoveKyiv )
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* [Lebanon ](http://www.paperswelovelb.club )
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* [London ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-london )
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* [Los Angeles ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-la )
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* [Madrid ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Madrid/ )
* [Montreal ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Montreal/ )
* [New York City ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ )
* [Paris ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Paris/ )
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* [Pune ](http://www.meetup.com/Doo-Things )
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* [Raleigh-Durham ](https://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Raleigh-Durham/ )
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* [Rio de Janeiro ](https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/papers-we-love-rio-de-janeiro/ )
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* [San Diego ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-San-Diego/ )
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* [San Francisco ](http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/ )
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* [Seattle ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Seattle/ )
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* [Seoul, Korea ](http://www.meetup.com/seoul-tech-society )
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* [Singapore ](https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/ )
* [St. Louis ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-in-saint-louis/ )
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* [Teresina ](https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/Papers-We-Love-Teresina/ )
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* [Toronto ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Toronto/ )
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* [Vienna ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-Vienna/ )
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* [Washington, DC ](http://www.meetup.com/Papers-We-Love-DC-NoVA/ )
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* [Winnipeg ](http://pwlwpg.ca/ )
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* [Zürich ](https://www.meetup.com/Papers-we-love-Zurich/ )
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All of our meetups follow our [Code of Conduct ](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md ).
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### Past Presentations
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Check out our [YouTube ](https://www.youtube.com/user/PapersWeLove ) and [MixCloud ](https://www.mixcloud.com/paperswelove/ ) (audio-only format) channels.
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## Info
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We're looking for pull requests related to papers we should add, better organization of the papers we do have, and/or links to other paper-repos we should point to.
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### Other Good Places to Find Papers
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* [2 Minute Papers ](https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz )
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* [Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983 ](https://www.bell-labs.com/our-research/technical-journal/ )
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* [Best Paper Awards in Computer Science ](http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html )
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* [Facebook ](https://research.fb.com/publications/ )
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* [Google Scholar ](http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng ) (choose a subcategory)
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* [Microsoft Research ](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=publications )
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* [Functional Programming Books Review ](http://alexott.net/en/fp/books/ )
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* [MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications ](http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/39813 )
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* [MIT's Distributed System's Reading Group ](http://dsrg.pdos.csail.mit.edu/ )
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* [arXiv Paper Repository ](http://arxiv.org/ )
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* [SciRate ](https://scirate.com/ )
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* [cat-v.org ](http://doc.cat-v.org/ )
* [y-archive ](http://yarchive.net/comp/index.html )
* [netlib ](http://www.netlib.org/ )
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* [Services Engineering Reading List ](https://github.com/mmcgrana/services-engineering )
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* [Readings in Distributed Systems ](http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07/12/readings-in-distributed-systems.html )
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* [Gradual Typing Bibliography ](http://samth.github.io/gradual-typing-bib/ )
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* [Security Data Science Papers ](http://www.covert.io/the-definitive-security-datascience-and-machinelearning-guide/ )
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* [Research Papers from Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University ](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/papers/index.html )
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* [Lobste.rs tagged as PDF ](https://lobste.rs/t/pdf )
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* [The Morning Paper ](http://blog.acolyer.org/ )
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Please check out our [wiki-page ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Other-Good-Sources-of-Reading-Material ) for links to blogs, books, exchanges that are worth a good read.
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### How To Read a Paper
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Reading a paper is not the same as reading a blogpost or a novel. Here are a few handy resources to help you get started.
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* [How to read an academic article ](http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2010/08/31/how-to-read-an-academic-article/ )
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* [Advice on reading academic papers ](https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~akmassey/posts/2012-02-15-advice-on-reading-academic-papers.html )
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* [How to read and understand a scientific paper ](http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/ )
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* [Should I Read Papers? ](http://michaelrbernste.in/2014/10/21/should-i-read-papers.html )
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* [The Refreshingly Rewarding Realm of Research Papers ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRx5Wo3xYA )
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### Applications/Ideas built around Papers We Love
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* Love a Paper - [@loveapaper ](https://twitter.com/loveapaper )
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### Download papers
Open your favourite terminal and run:
```bash
$ ./scripts/download.sh
```
This will scrape markdown files for links to PDFs and download papers to their respective directories.
See [README.md ](./scripts/README.md ) for more options.
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## Contributing Guidelines
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Please take a look at our [CONTRIBUTING.md ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md ) file.
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## Copyright
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The name "Papers We Love" and the logos for the organization are copyrighted, and under the ownership of Papers We Love Ltd, all rights reserved. When starting a chapter, please review [our guidelines ](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/wiki/Creating-a-PWL-chapter ) and ask us about using the logo.
