I like Pugh's paper on skip lists [1], Shannon's "Mathematical Theory of Communication" [2], and these two might be a stretch but I also like Rong's "Word2vec P

I like Pugh's paper on skip lists [1], Shannon's "Mathematical Theory of Communication" [2], and these two might be a stretch but I also like Rong's "Word2vec Parameter Learning Explained" [3] and Levy & Goldberg's "Word2vec Explained" [4]. In any case use the recommended papers to learn paper reading skills e.g look at references when you don't understand a concept, find an introductory textbook to clarify a proof method, write a summary to make your understanding concrete. Good Luck! [1]: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs2604/fall05/wmcquain/Notes/Supplemental/PughSkiplistPaper.pdf http://courses.cs.vt.edu/cs2604/fall05/wmcquain/Notes/Supple... [2]: http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop... [3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.2738.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.2738.pdf [4]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3722.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.3722.pdf