In 2025, I read 113 papers and 16 non-technical books. 113 papers is slightly more than my previous record (99 papers in 2024). In 2026, I want to read 100 papers and at least 15 non-technical books.
Complete list of my read papers: github.com/fregu856/papers.
Among the 113 papers, here are 25 that I found particularly interesting and/or well written (in alphabetical order):
- Adaptable Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction from Heterogeneous Data using Large Language Models (arxiv, 2025-05)
- Artificial Intelligence for Hemodynamic Monitoring With a Wearable Electrocardiogram Monitor (Communications Medicine, 2025)
- BenchECG and xECG: A Benchmark and Baseline for ECG Foundation Models (arxiv, 2025-09)
- Beyond Sensor Data: Foundation Models of Behavioral Data from Wearables Improve Health Predictions (ICML 2025)
- BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models (ICML 2023)
- Bootstrap Your Own Latent: A New Approach to Self-Supervised Learning (NeurIPS 2020)
- Development and Validation of an Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Agent for Clinical Decision-Making in Oncology (Nature Cancer, 2025)
- Digital Profiling of Gene Expression from Histology Images with Linearized Attention (Nature Communications, 2024)
- ECG Semantic Integrator (ESI): A Foundation ECG Model Pretrained with LLM-Enhanced Cardiological Text (TMLR, 2024)
- Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers (ICCV 2021)
- Foundation Model of Electronic Medical Records for Adaptive Risk Estimation (GigaScience, 2025)
- HEST-1k: A Dataset for Spatial Transcriptomics and Histology Image Analysis (NeurIPS 2024)
- iBOT: Image BERT Pre-Training with Online Tokenizer (ICLR 2022)
- LabTOP: A Unified Model for Lab Test Outcome Prediction on Electronic Health Records (CHIL 2025)
- Large Language Models are Powerful Electronic Health Record Encoders (arxiv, 2025-02)
- MedRAX: Medical Reasoning Agent for Chest X-ray (ICML 2025)
- Muddit: Liberating Generation Beyond Text-to-Image with a Unified Discrete Diffusion Model (arxiv, 2025-05)
- OneCAT: Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation (arxiv, 2025-09)
- Path2Space: An AI Approach for Cancer Biomarker Discovery Via Histopathology Inferred Spatial Transcriptomics (biorxiv, 2024-10)
- Performance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text Regression (arxiv, 2025-06)
- Q-Heart: ECG Question Answering via Knowledge-Informed Multimodal LLMs (arxiv, 2025-05)
- Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation (ICLR 2023)
- SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors (NeurIPS 2025)
- Towards Physician-Centered Oversight of Conversational Diagnostic AI (arxiv, 2025-07)
- Zero Shot Health Trajectory Prediction Using Transformer (npj Digital Medicine, 2024)
Some paper statistics (number of papers read each year, papers by venue):
The 16 non-technical books I read in 2025:
- 25-12-31 | Bildhuggarens dotter | Tove Jansson | Rating: 3.5
- 25-12-06 | Invandrarna | Vilhelm Moberg | Rating: 4
- 25-10-04 | Stad i världen | Per Anders Fogelström | Rating: 3.5
- 25-08-30 | I en förvandlad stad | Per Anders Fogelström | Rating: 4
- 25-07-08 | Resa med lätt bagage | Tove Jansson | Rating: 3.5
- 25-06-21 | Egenmäktigt förfarande | Lena Andersson | Rating: 3.5
- 25-06-12 | Doktor Glas | Hjalmar Söderberg | Rating: 3.5
- 25-06-01 | Utvandrarna | Vilhelm Moberg | Rating: 3.5
- 25-05-05 | Stacken | Annika Norlin | Rating: 4
- 25-04-20 | Jävla karlar | Andrev Walden | Rating: 4
- 25-04-05 | Den lodande människan. Havet, djupet och nyfikenheten: Essäer | Patrik Svensson | Rating: 3.5
- 25-03-15 | Köpenhamnstriologin | Tove Ditlevsen | Rating: 4.5
- 25-02-22 | Jag ser allt du gör | Annika Norlin | Rating: 4
- 25-02-07 | Sommarboken | Tove Jansson | Rating: 3.5
- 25-01-19 | Foster | Claire Keegan | Rating: 4
- 25-01-11 | Minns du den stad | Per Anders Fogelström | Rating: 4.5
Among the 16 books, these are my top 5 favorites (in alphabetical order):
- Invandrarna | Vilhelm Moberg | Rating: 4
- Jävla karlar | Andrev Walden | Rating: 4
- Köpenhamnstriologin | Tove Ditlevsen | Rating: 4.5
- Minns du den stad | Per Anders Fogelström | Rating: 4.5
- Stacken | Annika Norlin | Rating: 4