Survey of LLM Research Papers for the First Half of 2026
Sebastian Raschka published a curated list of key scientific papers on large language models (LLMs) from January to May 2026. The selection highlights trends: hybrid architectures (alternating attention and state-space layers), efficient inference, agentic systems, and diffusion language models. Special attention is given to Nvidia's Nemotron 3 with hybrid design and Qwen3.6 with Gated DeltaNet.
NVIDIA
Alibaba/Qwen
Mistral
Baidu
Cohere
Technology Innovation Institute
MiniMax



