LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)

As some of you know, I keep a running list of research papers I (want to) read and reference.About six months ago, I shared my 2024 list, which many readers found useful. So, I was thinking about doing this again. However, this time, I am incorporating that one piece of feedback kept coming up: "Can you organize the papers by topic instead of date?"The categories I came up with are:Reasoning Models- 1a. Training Reasoning Models- 1b. Inference-Time Reasoning Strategies- 1c. Evaluating LLMs and/o...