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TLDR

A curated directory of other GitHub repositories that collect research papers, organized by field so you can find the right paper list fast.

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    What it does
      Index of paper list repos
      Organized by ACM taxonomy
      Bilingual EN and Chinese
    Tech stack
      Python
      Generated markdown
    Use cases
      Find paper collections by field
      Get oriented in a research area
      Discover niche survey lists
    Audience
      Researchers
      Students
      ML engineers
    Content scope
      260 verified repos
      95 topics
      14 fields
    Quality bar
      Manually reviewed entries
      No forks or archives
      Ranked by stars

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Browse a specific computer science field to find the best paper-list repository for it.

USE CASE 2

Get a starting point when entering a new research area with no prior reading list.

USE CASE 3

Discover niche survey or bibliography repositories that would be hard to find by direct search.

What is it built with?

PythonMarkdown

How does it compare?

lancezpf/awesome-papers-awesomesac-y/identity-skillohad6k/emulo
Stars201202199
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/53/52/5
Audienceresearchervibe coderdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
The README does not state a license.

In plain English

This project is not a collection of research papers itself. It is a directory that points you to other GitHub repositories which collect research papers. Think of it as an index of indexes: instead of searching for paper lists one by one, you get a single organized map of the best ones across computer science. The repository sorts these paper-list repositories using a classification system based on the ACM Computing Classification System, with artificial intelligence treated as its own top level field rather than folded into general computing. Under that field sit topics like machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, and reinforcement learning, along with many non AI fields such as hardware, networks, security, and human computer interaction. As of this snapshot it lists 260 verified repositories spread across 390 category placements, 95 topics, and 14 fields. The whole page is presented in both English and Simplified Chinese. Each entry in the list is manually checked before inclusion. The maintainers require a repository to contain a real paper list, bibliography, or survey collection, not just a single paper implementation or a generic tool list. Entries are ranked by current GitHub star count, though the maintainers note that stars measure discovery, not quality. Forked and archived repositories are excluded, and near duplicate repository names are limited to cut down on mirrors and clones. For someone trying to get oriented in a research area, this is meant as a starting point: browse by field, click through to a promising paper list repository, and continue from there. Contribution guidelines and details on how the data is maintained are described later in the file. The full README is longer than what was shown.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm new to a research area in computer science, help me pick which category in this index to browse first.
Prompt 2
Given this list of categories from awesome-papers-awesome, which one best matches research on reinforcement learning?
Prompt 3
Summarize what kinds of paper-list repositories are included under the artificial intelligence field in this index.
Prompt 4
Explain how this index decides which repositories to include and how it ranks them.

Frequently asked questions

What is awesome-papers-awesome?

A curated directory of other GitHub repositories that collect research papers, organized by field so you can find the right paper list fast.

What language is awesome-papers-awesome written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Markdown.

What license does awesome-papers-awesome use?

The README does not state a license.

How hard is awesome-papers-awesome to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is awesome-papers-awesome for?

Mainly researcher.

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