Most-cited Computer Science papers of 2024, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Computer Science research papers published in 2024, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Learning Multiple Layers of Features from Tiny Images
   Alex Krizhevsky · 2024 · 24,642 citations
2. Targeted Branching for the Maximum Independent Set Problem Using Graph Neural Networks
   Silva, Gabriel, Rodrigues, Mário et al. · 2024 · 5,266 citations
3. Kaldi Speech Recognition Toolkit
   Daniel Povey · 2024 · 4,823 citations
4. Reading digits in natural images with unsupervised feature learning
   Yuval Netzer · 2024 · 4,403 citations
5. Caltech-UCSD Birds-200-2011 Dataset
   Catherine Wah · 2024 · 3,860 citations
6. Segment anything in medical images
   Jun Ma, Yuting He et al. · 2024 · 2,923 citations · Free PDF
7. A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models
   Yupeng Chang, Xu Wang et al. · 2024 · 2,832 citations
8. A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions
   Lei Huang, Weijiang Yu et al. · 2024 · 2,370 citations · Free PDF
9. A survey on large language model based autonomous agents
   Lei Wang, Chen Ma et al. · 2024 · 1,805 citations · Free PDF
10. ProTox 3.0: a webserver for the prediction of toxicity of chemicals
    Priyanka Banerjee, Emanuel Kemmler et al. · 2024 · 1,595 citations
11. The effects of over-reliance on AI dialogue systems on students' cognitive abilities: a systematic review
    Chunpeng Zhai, Santoso Wibowo et al. · 2024 · 1,480 citations
12. Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
    Nelson F. Liu, Kevin Lin et al. · 2024 · 1,405 citations · Free PDF
13. TransUNet: Rethinking the U-Net architecture design for medical image segmentation through the lens of transformers
    Jieneng Chen, Jieru Mei et al. · 2024 · 1,355 citations
14. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap
    Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo et al. · 2024 · 1,320 citations · Free PDF
15. Evaluation metrics and statistical tests for machine learning
    Oona Rainio, Jarmo Teuho et al. · 2024 · 1,282 citations · Free PDF
16. ADMETlab 3.0: an updated comprehensive online ADMET prediction platform enhanced with broader coverage, improved performance, API functionality and decision support
    Li Fu, Shaohua Shi et al. · 2024 · 1,250 citations
17. A review of convolutional neural networks in computer vision
    Xia Zhao, Limin Wang et al. · 2024 · 1,149 citations · Free PDF
18. An Update on the Nitrogen Heterocycle Compositions and Properties of U.S. FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals (2013–2023)
    Christopher M. Marshall, John G. Federice et al. · 2024 · 1,054 citations
19. A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
    Yifan Yao, Jinhao Duan et al. · 2024 · 1,052 citations · Free PDF
20. A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application
    Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang et al. · 2024 · 1,022 citations
21. Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
    Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao et al. · 2024 · 972 citations
22. Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
    Yan-Kun Chen, Jingxuan Liu et al. · 2024 · 941 citations
23. DEA-Net: Single Image Dehazing Based on Detail-Enhanced Convolution and Content-Guided Attention
    Zixuan Chen, Zewei He et al. · 2024 · 939 citations
24. Medical Image Segmentation Review: The Success of U-Net
    Reza Azad, Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam et al. · 2024 · 927 citations
25. Vision-Language Models for Vision Tasks: A Survey
    J Zhang, Jiaxing Huang et al. · 2024 · 921 citations

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