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Deep Learning Papers Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Annotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Deep Learning Papers Guide

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$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill deep-learning-papers-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins deep-learning-papers-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/domains/ai-ml/deep-learning-papers-guide .claude/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide && rm -rf skills-src

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Facts

Skill name
deep-learning-papers-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
443 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Annotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs

  • Works in 7 steps: Read the paper twice. First pass for… → Identify the core algorithm. Usually in… → List all hyperparameters. Create a… → …
  • Tasks that involve Deep learning
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Core Architecture Families, Key Architecture Comparison and Training Patterns, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Deep Learning Papers Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Annotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering Deep learning. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Deep learning

Example prompts

  • “/deep-learning-papers-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the paper twice. First pass for high-level understanding; second pass for implementation details.
  2. Identify the core algorithm. Usually in Section 3 or 4 of the paper.
  3. List all hyperparameters. Create a config dict before writing any code.
  4. Implement bottom-up. Start with the smallest building blocks (attention, normalization), then compose.
  5. Test each component in isolation. Verify tensor shapes and gradients at each level.
  6. Reproduce a known result first. Match the paper's numbers on a small dataset before scaling.
  7. Use the official implementation as reference. But write your own code for understanding.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • arxiv.org
    • github.com
    • jalammar.github.io
    • paperswithcode.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Deep Learning Papers Guide loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 443 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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SKILL.md

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 443 words, ~2,133 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
deep-learning-papers-guide
description
Annotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs

Deep Learning Papers Guide

Overview

Understanding deep learning architectures requires more than reading papers -- it requires reading and writing code. The annotated_deep_learning_paper_implementations repository (65,800+ stars) provides line-by-line annotated implementations of seminal deep learning papers in PyTorch, making it one of the most valuable learning resources in the field.

This guide organizes the key architectures by category, provides implementation patterns for the most important building blocks, and offers strategies for going from paper to working code. Whether you are implementing a Transformer variant for your research, understanding a GAN architecture for your experiments, or teaching a deep learning course, these patterns accelerate the process.

The focus is on practical understanding: what each component does, why it is designed that way, and how to implement it correctly in PyTorch.

Core Architecture Families

Transformer Architectures

The Transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) is the foundation of modern NLP and increasingly of computer vision.

Multi-Head Self-Attention
python
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import math

class MultiHeadAttention(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, d_model: int, n_heads: int):
        super().__init__()
        assert d_model % n_heads == 0
        self.d_model = d_model
        self.n_heads = n_heads
        self.d_k = d_model // n_heads

        self.W_q = nn.Linear(d_model, d_model)
        self.W_k = nn.Linear(d_model, d_model)
        self.W_v = nn.Linear(d_model, d_model)
        self.W_o = nn.Linear(d_model, d_model)

    def forward(self, query, key, value, mask=None):
        batch_size = query.size(0)

        # Linear projections and reshape to (batch, heads, seq, d_k)
        Q = self.W_q(query).view(batch_size, -1, self.n_heads, self.d_k).transpose(1, 2)
        K = self.W_k(key).view(batch_size, -1, self.n_heads, self.d_k).transpose(1, 2)
        V = self.W_v(value).view(batch_size, -1, self.n_heads, self.d_k).transpose(1, 2)

        # Scaled dot-product attention
        scores = torch.matmul(Q, K.transpose(-2, -1)) / math.sqrt(self.d_k)
        if mask is not None:
            scores = scores.masked_fill(mask == 0, float('-inf'))
        attn = torch.softmax(scores, dim=-1)
        context = torch.matmul(attn, V)

        # Concatenate heads and project
        context = context.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(batch_size, -1, self.d_model)
        return self.W_o(context)
Transformer Encoder Block
python
class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, d_model: int, n_heads: int, d_ff: int, dropout: float = 0.1):
        super().__init__()
        self.attention = MultiHeadAttention(d_model, n_heads)
        self.norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(d_model)
        self.norm2 = nn.LayerNorm(d_model)
        self.ffn = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(d_model, d_ff),
            nn.GELU(),
            nn.Dropout(dropout),
            nn.Linear(d_ff, d_model),
            nn.Dropout(dropout)
        )
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout)

    def forward(self, x, mask=None):
        # Pre-norm variant (used in GPT-2, ViT, modern architectures)
        attn_out = self.attention(self.norm1(x), self.norm1(x), self.norm1(x), mask)
        x = x + self.dropout(attn_out)
        x = x + self.ffn(self.norm2(x))
        return x
Convolutional Neural Networks
ResNet Bottleneck Block
python
class BottleneckBlock(nn.Module):
    expansion = 4

    def __init__(self, in_channels, out_channels, stride=1, downsample=None):
        super().__init__()
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, 1, bias=False)
        self.bn1 = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(out_channels, out_channels, 3,
                               stride=stride, padding=1, bias=False)
        self.bn2 = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels)
        self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(out_channels, out_channels * self.expansion, 1, bias=False)
        self.bn3 = nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels * self.expansion)
        self.relu = nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
        self.downsample = downsample

    def forward(self, x):
        identity = x
        out = self.relu(self.bn1(self.conv1(x)))
        out = self.relu(self.bn2(self.conv2(out)))
        out = self.bn3(self.conv3(out))
        if self.downsample is not None:
            identity = self.downsample(x)
        out += identity
        return self.relu(out)

Key Architecture Comparison

ArchitectureYearParametersKey InnovationPrimary Domain
ResNet201525M (ResNet-50)Skip connectionsVision
Transformer2017VariesSelf-attentionNLP
BERT2018340M (Large)Masked language modelingNLP
GPT-220191.5BAutoregressive generationNLP
ViT202086M (Base)Patch-based image tokenizationVision
Diffusion2020VariesIterative denoisingGeneration
LLaMA20237B-70BEfficient open LLMNLP

Training Patterns

Standard Training Loop
python
def train_epoch(model, dataloader, optimizer, criterion, device):
    model.train()
    total_loss = 0
    for batch_idx, (data, targets) in enumerate(dataloader):
        data, targets = data.to(device), targets.to(device)

        optimizer.zero_grad()
        outputs = model(data)
        loss = criterion(outputs, targets)
        loss.backward()

        # Gradient clipping (crucial for Transformers)
        torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), max_norm=1.0)

        optimizer.step()
        total_loss += loss.item()

    return total_loss / len(dataloader)
Learning Rate Scheduling
python
# Cosine annealing with warmup (standard for Transformers)
from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import CosineAnnealingLR, LinearLR, SequentialLR

optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=3e-4, weight_decay=0.01)
warmup = LinearLR(optimizer, start_factor=0.01, total_iters=1000)
cosine = CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer, T_max=50000)
scheduler = SequentialLR(optimizer, schedulers=[warmup, cosine], milestones=[1000])
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From Paper to Code: A Methodology

  1. Read the paper twice. First pass for high-level understanding; second pass for implementation details.
  2. Identify the core algorithm. Usually in Section 3 or 4 of the paper.
  3. List all hyperparameters. Create a config dict before writing any code.
  4. Implement bottom-up. Start with the smallest building blocks (attention, normalization), then compose.
  5. Test each component in isolation. Verify tensor shapes and gradients at each level.
  6. Reproduce a known result first. Match the paper's numbers on a small dataset before scaling.
  7. Use the official implementation as reference. But write your own code for understanding.

Best Practices

  • Always verify tensor shapes. Add assert statements for dimensions during development.
  • Use mixed precision training. torch.cuda.amp provides 2x speedup with minimal accuracy loss.
  • Log everything. Use Weights & Biases or TensorBoard for experiment tracking.
  • Start small. Debug on a tiny dataset before running on the full one.
  • Read the appendix. Critical details (learning rates, initialization, data augmentation) are often in the supplementary material.
  • Join the community. Papers With Code, Reddit r/MachineLearning, and Twitter/X are where implementation details are discussed.

References

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/domains/ai-ml/deep-learning-papers-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Deep Learning Papers Guide

What does Deep Learning Papers Guide do?

Annotated deep learning paper implementations with code walkthroughs. Deep Learning Papers Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Deep Learning Papers Guide?

Deep Learning Papers Guide fits situations like: tasks that involve Deep learning.

How do I install Deep Learning Papers Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill deep-learning-papers-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ai-ml/deep-learning-papers-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Deep Learning Papers Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill deep-learning-papers-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ai-ml/deep-learning-papers-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Deep Learning Papers Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill deep-learning-papers-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide, .gemini/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide, .github/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide and .opencode/skills/deep-learning-papers-guide in your project.

What does Deep Learning Papers Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Deep Learning Papers Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Deep Learning Papers Guide access the network?

SKILL.md names 4 domains. As links in the text: arxiv.org, github.com, jalammar.github.io and paperswithcode.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Deep Learning Papers Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Deep Learning Papers Guide use?

Deep Learning Papers Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Deep Learning Papers Guide use?

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Who maintains Deep Learning Papers Guide?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

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