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Navigating Papers With Code

Learn to efficiently search, filter, and discover papers with implementations. Master the site's navigation to find exactly what you need in seconds.

The Homepage

The Papers With Code homepage gives you immediate access to the most important sections:

  • Trending Papers: Papers gaining the most attention and GitHub stars right now
  • Greatest Papers: All-time most popular papers on the platform
  • Latest Papers: Newly indexed papers from arXiv and conferences
  • Top Navigation: Quick links to Papers, Datasets, Methods, and SOTA sections

Search Strategies

The search bar is the fastest way to find specific papers or topics. Here are effective search strategies:

Keyword Search

Search by topic, technique name, or problem type. Examples:

  • vision transformer — finds papers about ViT and related architectures
  • text-to-image diffusion — finds papers on diffusion-based image generation
  • retrieval augmented generation — finds RAG papers and implementations

Author Search

Search for papers by specific researchers to find their body of work and implementations.

Conference Filtering

Filter papers by venue (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP) to find peer-reviewed, high-quality research.

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Pro tip: Sort search results by "Most Stars" to find the most popular and well-maintained implementations, or by "Newest" to see the latest research.

Paper Pages

Each paper page on the platform contains rich information:

  • Abstract: The paper's summary and key contributions
  • Code repositories: Links to all known implementations, ranked by GitHub stars
  • Results: Benchmark scores reported in the paper, linked to SOTA leaderboards
  • Tasks: The ML tasks the paper addresses (e.g., object detection, text classification)
  • Datasets: Datasets used for training or evaluation
  • Methods: Specific techniques and components used in the paper

Trending and Discovery

Papers With Code offers several ways to discover new and impactful research:

Trending Papers

Updated daily, trending papers are ranked by a combination of recent GitHub activity, social media mentions, and community engagement. This is the best way to stay on top of breaking research.

Newsletter

Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to receive curated highlights of the most important papers and developments directly in your inbox.

Task Pages

Browse by task (e.g., Image Classification, Machine Translation, Question Answering) to see all papers, benchmarks, and datasets related to a specific problem.

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Implementation quality varies: A paper may have multiple linked repositories. Look at GitHub stars, recency of commits, documentation quality, and whether it is an official implementation from the paper authors.

Using the API

Papers With Code also offers a REST API for programmatic access to papers, datasets, benchmarks, and results. This is useful for building research tools, automated literature reviews, or integration with your own workflows.