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research/ — Research Analysis

Three independent scopes. llm/ and omni/ are isomorphically organized (both follow the “four-layer reading model” below, by year + full index); harness/ is organized differently (one dossier per harness + 12 cross-dimension sections, no year folders / no 01-INDEX). This is the navigation page; for actual content, go into each scope’s 00-SUMMARY.md.

scopeThemeSpanScaleEntry
llm/LLM technology evolution (pretraining data / architecture / AI infra / post-training / agentic)GPT-3 2020-05 → 2026-06525+ primary sources00-SUMMARY · 01-INDEX
omni/Multimodal/omni-modal generation (text-to-image / editing / unified understanding-and-generation / any-to-any omni / video / audio / 3D / enabling methods)2020 → 2026-H1324 work pages / ~322 sources00-SUMMARY · 01-INDEX
harness/Source-level survey of mainstream agent harnesses (agent loop / memory / tools / prompt / orchestration / skills / self-evolution / observability / security / sandbox / model co-evolution / trajectory utilization — 12 dimensions)as of 2026-0761 harnesses · 12 cross sections (open-source pins commit, closed-source anchors version/fetch-date)00-SUMMARY

Structure of Each Scope

<scope>/
├── 00-SUMMARY.md     # Main summary: storyline overview + statistics + reading guide (read this first)
├── 01-INDEX.md       # Full source index: grouped by year/month, each with original URL, clickable
├── 2020/ … 2026/     # Per-work structured pages (one work per file, kebab-case slug)
├── sections/         # Cross-cutting categorical/topical summaries
└── deep-dive/        # Cross-cutting deep-dive comparisons of models or families

harness/ is the exception: no year folders, no 01-INDEX.md. Its structure is 00-SUMMARY.md (roster of 61 harnesses + 12-dimension guide) + <slug>.md (one 12-dimension dossier per harness) + sections/<dim>.md (12 cross-harness dimension comparisons). Raw excerpts and fetch notes live in ../sources/harness/<slug>/ (each folder has a NOTES.md).

Four-Layer Reading Model (from “conclusion” to “primary source”)

  1. 00-SUMMARY.md — for the storyline and reading guide, read just this page.
  2. sections/ · deep-dive/ — for a cross-cutting comparison of a topic (architecture evolution, training methods, benchmarks…) or a family (SD-FLUX, Qwen, unified omni…).
  3. 01-INDEX.md — to browse all entries along the timeline and find the original link for a given entry.
  4. <year>/<slug>.md — for the six-dimension close reading of a single work (data / training / architecture / benchmark / infra + innovation/impact); its downloaded primary source is in ../sources/<scope>/<year>/.

Page Conventions

  • Each page begins with a YAML frontmatter (title / org / country / date / type / category / url / …).
  • The body uses Obsidian-style [[slug]] internal links to cross-reference pages (slug = filename without .md).
  • Per-work pages share a uniform six-dimension structure; all numbers come from primary sources and are checked via adversarial verification.

Maintenance

Maintenance scripts live in the repo’s scripts/ directory (Python standard library only, no dependencies; see scripts/README.md):

  • build_index.py / build_index_omni.py — regenerate each scope’s 01-INDEX.md from page frontmatter
  • normalize_wikilinks.py — normalize omni internal-link aliases (e.g. [[dit]][[dit-scalable-diffusion-transformers]])
  • fix_frontmatter.py — repair YAML frontmatter
  • lint.py — health checks (duplicate pages / frontmatter / broken wikilinks / folder-date consistency), run by CI on every push/PR

After adding or removing source pages, re-run build_index*.py to refresh the index; run lint.py before committing.