---
title: Distilled literature
description: >-
  Machine-readable distillations of research papers (core results, datasets
  used, theory tested) so you can see what a paper found without reading all
  of it.
sidebar:
  label: Overview
  order: 0
---

import PapersIndex from '../../../components/PapersIndex.astro';

These pages distil each paper to the part you usually need (**its core
results, the datasets it used, and the theory it tested**), with exact
source locators. Read the full paper to replicate or extend it, not to find
out what it found.

Each distillation states its own **provenance honestly**: which paper, that
the source is peer-reviewed or not, that extraction was done by an LLM and
*not* human-verified, and whether the result has been reproduced (almost
never, yet; we say so rather than imply otherwise). Where the source licence
permits, the verbatim PDF is also mirrored, machine-accessible, in the
[Open Library](/library), because the publisher often is not.

## Distilled papers

The table below is generated at build time from each page's own metadata, so a
new distillation is one new file under `papers/` with nothing else to update.

<PapersIndex />

> A distillation is **not** a substitute for the paper under peer review or
> in citation. It is a map. Re-expressed factual results are not
> copyrightable; the synthesis is the Institute's, the findings are the
> authors'. Read the source (mirrored or via DOI) before building on it.