Priority 1 — surface the frontier synthesis layer

Why this is high-value:

  • frontiers/* is the strongest existing bridge layer
  • adding this route surfaces several cross-lane research theses at once
  • this is higher value than sprinkling many small paper-to-paper links

Priority 2 — route readers into the most important frontier pages

Why:

  • this is the strongest bridge between the current architecture lane and the current compression-robustness lane

Why:

  • this page names one of the garden’s most underconnected but high-upside research seams

Why:

  • this is the best current bridge between recurrent structure and test-time compute

Priority 3 — surface the challenge-history layer

Why:

  • this resolves the current one-way bridge between challenge framing and challenge-history analysis
  • it makes public-record interpretation discoverable from the main challenge route

Priority 4 — connect hypotheses to concrete evidence

Why:

  • this creates a visible evidence trail for the recurrent-width lane
  • right now the architecture lane reads more theoretical than it needs to

Why:

  • even if provisional, it is an important synthesis node for combined architecture + compression thinking

Priority 5 — rescue the orphan idea layer

Why this entire tier matters:

  • the idea layer already contains concrete next experiments
  • the lack of backlinks makes the garden weak at converting synthesis into agenda

Priority 6 — targeted paper rescue

Why:

  • BitNet is more important to the native-low-bit framing than its current visibility suggests

Why:

  • it is central to compute-aware interpretation of compact-model tradeoffs, not just a side paper for the training lane

Summary principle

The best backlinks are the ones that surface:

  • hidden synthesis
  • hidden agenda pages
  • hidden evidence pages
  • challenge-history context

They are not the ones that merely make the graph denser.