Catalog — Specimen ReviewVol. I · Entries 01—03

A catalog of drafted literature reviews.

Each entry below was drafted from a real corpus. Every claim in every synthesis is pinned to a paper — click through to read.

  1. 001 · REV-ATTENTION
    Attention mechanisms in neural sequence models.
    A survey of architectural innovations, 2014 – 2024

    Attention mechanisms reshaped sequence modelling between 2014 and 2024, progressing from additive soft attention to the scaled dot-product transformer and its sparse / linear descendants. This review clusters 12 canonical works into three strands (foundations, efficiency, and interpretability), identifies one under-cited bridge between the efficiency and interpretability literatures, and notes the shift in benchmarking conventions that clouds cross-strand comparison.

    Maya AlvesUC Berkeley EECS12 papers4 themesupdated 2026-04-19
    • Foundations· 3
    • Efficiency· 4
    • Interpretability· 3
    • Gap-bridging· 2
  2. 002 · REV-ALZHEIMER
    Anti-amyloid therapies in Alzheimer's disease.
    Clinical trial outcomes, 2016 – 2024

    Nine Phase-II and Phase-III trials of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (2016 – 2024) are clustered by target epitope and endpoint family. Two positive trials (lecanemab, donanemab) share a common plaque-reduction mechanism but diverge on cognitive endpoint strength. The review flags a gap in head-to-head comparison and a consistent under-powering for ApoE4 carriers.

    Priya PatelCambridge Neuro9 papers4 themesupdated 2026-04-12
    • Central-domain antibodies· 3
    • N-terminal antibodies· 2
    • Plaque-selective antibodies· 3
    • ARIA safety literature· 1
  3. 003 · REV-CLIMATE
    Direct air capture economics.
    Capex trajectories and LCOA forecasting, 2019 – 2024

    This review surveys eight techno-economic analyses of direct-air-capture systems published between 2019 and 2024. Solid-sorbent and liquid-solvent projections diverge by 2× at 2035; the divergence is driven entirely by assumed electrolyzer capex rather than DAC capex.

    Daniel RodriguezColumbia SIPA8 papers3 themesupdated 2026-04-07
    • Solid sorbent· 3
    • Liquid solvent· 2
    • LCOA forecasting· 3

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