PaperNova · Learn
Understand research papers,
lesson by lesson.
Interactive walkthroughs of landmark AI papers — animated visuals, live Python code you can edit and run, and explanations written for deep understanding.
Available papers
Attention Is All You Need
Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit, Jones, Gomez, Kaiser, Polosukhin
Transformers · NLP
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers
Devlin, Chang, Lee, Toutanova
NLP · Pre-training
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
He, Zhang, Ren, Sun
Computer Vision · CNNs
Generative Adversarial Nets
Goodfellow, Pouget-Abadie, Mirza, Xu, Warde-Farley, Ozair, Courville, Bengio
AI · Research
What each lesson includes
Professor-quality explanations
Every concept is taught with motivation, intuition, math, worked examples, and common mistakes — the way a great professor would.
Animated SVG visuals
Custom animations show you exactly how data flows, how attention weights form, and how the architecture fits together.
Live Python in the browser
Edit and run numpy code directly in the page — no setup, no installs. Powered by Pyodide (WebAssembly Python).
Exercises with solutions
Reinforce understanding with targeted exercises. Reveal hints and full solutions when you're ready.