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+# Rationale
+
+This section contains a collection of documents describing the motivation and
+rationale for some of the design decisions behind MLIR.
+
+*   [MLIR: Incremental Application to Graph Algorithms in ML Frameworks](MLIRForGraphAlgorithms.md) -
+    A discussion of how the adoption of MLIR can be taken in incremental steps,
+    with each step providing tangible benefits along the way. Refutes the idea
+    that full adoption of MLIR is required before we can reap the benefits of
+    MLIR.
+
+*   [MLIR Rationale](Rationale.md) - Introduces the motivation for MLIR and
+    captures design discussions and decisions made for various core features of
+    MLIR.
+
+*   [Generic DAG Rewriter Infrastructure Rationale](RationaleGenericDAGRewriter.md) -
+    Details the rationale behind a general DAG-to-DAG rewrite infrastructure for
+    MLIR.
+
+*   [Linalg Dialect Rationale: The Case for Compiler-Friendly Custom Operations](RationaleLinalgDialect.md) -
+    Describes the key design principles that led to the existing implementation
+    of Linalg and lessons learned along the way.
+
+*   [MLIR: The case for a simplified polyhedral form](RationaleSimplifiedPolyhedralForm.md) -
+    An early design proposal exploring the tradeoffs of using a simplified form
+    for polyhedral compiler techniques in MLIR instead of the traditional
+    polyhedral schedule list form.
+
+*   [Usage of 'Const' in MLIR, for core IR types](UsageOfConst.md) - Explains
+    the rationale for eschewing the use of `const` entirely for the core IR
+    types in MLIR.