Uhhhh. This is tough because there's no such thing as a "generic research paper." The entire point of a paper is to dive deep into a specific subject.
I tend to read papers related to reverse-engineering malware, unpacking binaries, and cryptography but I'm not sure they would fit in the criteria you've asked so please do tell.
Been doing some machine learning stuff:
Also, this - definitely this:
github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papers
Which includes extensive blog posts, papers, blogs on many different areas of neural networks :).
hmm
ich hope those are enough for the moment. The memory things is not a classic publication paper but it's really good.
As Todd said, "generic research paper" kind of defeats the concept of a research paper... and personally in my experience "computer science research papers" are usually just packed with theoretical double-talk by people who don't actually know how to IMPLEMENT any of the subjects they are discussion. It's educational institution circle-jerking that typically has zero real-world production relevance.
The closest I would come to anything resembling that description still isn't "generic" -- the articles over at nnGroup about accessibility and usability, since they ACTUALLY study it and practice what they preach... as opposed to collegiate level self-BS'ing by those who haven't updated their actual skills in two decades.
SO many "research papers" in "computer science" (even the TERM CS sets my teeth on edge) reek of buzzword bingo double-talk by people not qualified to figure out how to install a notepad replacement.
J03
Just another bit in the byte
Funny you ask that as a few moments ago before seeing this post I made a post of my own linking a paper I just read concerning scaling Bitcoin using the Lightning Network:
Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks