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r/MachineLearning community 8d ago
Do LLMs make ML research more fair for small teams? [D]
It feels like LLMs are partially leveling the playing field in ML research. A solo researcher or a two-person team can now get help with coding, literature review, writing things stronger labs usually get from experienced colleagues and large networks. Obviously, LLMs don’t…
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NeurIPS 2026 Concept & Feasibility Track [D]
I could not find any discussion threads for the C&F track. Have people actually submitted to this track? If so, what are your reviews and scores looking like, along with post rebuttal engagement? In our case, they received reviews not in line with the policy defined for the…
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I Compressed Bad Apple into a 3MB Neural Network [P]
I trained a small MLP to memorize the classic Bad Apple animation, ~2.7 billion pixels of video compressed into 790k parameters (3.2 MB float32, 1.6 MB float16). The network takes a 3D coordinate (t, y, x)- frame index and pixel position- and outputs a grayscale value between 0…
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Building a new project[P]
I have a project question. Right now, I am building a webapp for advanced arabic language learners that helps in Nahw (I'rab) which is something related to how Arabic sentences are built. My question is, how do you develop your idea when you know that there are other people out…
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Completely dead NeurIPS review period from both ends? [D]
I’ve seen a lot of people whose reviewers went silent after initial reviews, but I am also noting abnormally quiet authors. I ultimately withdrew my paper, but stayed an active reviewer. Out of my batch of 4 papers, one withdrew, one posted a rebuttal, and two have been…
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NeurIPS 2026 post-rebuttal score distribution poll [D]
As the title suggests, because there's no data on Papercopilot yet, and people have been talking about the scores being lower in general than last year, I thought it could be interesting to survey the average score distribution after the rebuttal phase (not considering…
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Reactive Play: Achieved!! Experimenting with Atari Breakout [R]
Six months ago I started experimenting with PPO and Breakout as a way to learn about Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning. After a few experiuments just trying to get high scores, it bothered me that everything was a "memorized" script rather than reactive play, like a…
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A question on ICLR and NeurIPS deadlines, and OpenReview [D]
After a very silent discussion period, we are in a very confused state with regards to NeurIPS, and really unsure what to make of everything. We do not wish to withdraw the submission since we have no idea what the reviewers and AC think of the paper, having deserted the…
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Automated Plagiarism with LLM-remixers [D]
An author puts together a number of papers he likes, especially adds the .tex files from arxiv, tells the LLM to look for gaps in the papers, commented out material, and remix them, while avoiding syntactic overlap. The result is a paper that will pass arxiv's syntactic overlap…
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The Downsides of LLM-Generated Peer Reviews [D]
Having used LLMs to assist with reviews, and also having received reviews that appear to rely heavily on LLM-generated text, I have noticed two recurring problems. 1. The endless search for uncontrolled variables LLMs are very good at identifying additional variables that were…
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Do ACs also give scores? [D]
This is my first time submitting to NeurIPS. Are ACs also supposed to give ratings during the Phase 2 (author-reviewer discussion session)? I have received the meta-review, but have not received any comments from the AC yet, and was wondering whether this is the standard!  …
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Missed EMNLP commitment deadline, what can be done? [D]
Asking for a friend: We submitted our paper to ARR May 2026 and got decent scores from the reviewers - 2.5,3,3.5,4. The meta-reviewer gave an overall of 3.5. However, we missed the deadline to commit our work to EMNLP! On our Saturday (we live in the eastern half of the globe),…
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Sentence retrieval method [P]
I have been working on a memory management system SALT for a while now and the idea is that all input is saved in a trie structure in dram and then retrieved sentences based on a keyword theme dominance system through CELF currently at a 20% budget. It’s very efficient however…
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I created an autonomous boxing benchmark [D]
I created an AI boxing match to test the decision speed, adaptability and strategy. I fed the LLMs with data about the current match and if they have vision, they will get even more data. The match has street rules, anything goes and an AI is not defeated until the ref counts to…
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Bad but typical NeurIPS experience? [D]
I tried to do all my NeurIPS reviews responsibly, even for the papers I suspected to be AI slop. I even gave what apparently were very nice scores compared to the scores I ended up getting. (I don't just mean the absolute number for my scores were higher, but that they were…
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NeurIPS 2026: Tips that might convince AC? [D]
So our paper had very good initial reviews but one of the reviewers decreased now their score although we addressed 3 out of 4 weaknesses. There’s no further justification or something like “your results arise more issues”. It seems to be very annoying because why decreasing now…
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Deep Dive on RL and OPD for Training LLMs [D]
Hi everyone, if you have been reading the tech reports of Kimi, DS, Qwen and GLM, you will realize how much on policy distillation and GRPO style algorithms power the frontier. I thought it will be quite beneficial to do a deep dive explaining the maths and code behind this…
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No rebuttals from neurips authors [D]
I know there’s a lot of frustration around no response from reviewers, which I also got only one so yeah what a bummer, but I was wondering if no rebuttal from the authors was just as common or not. I got no rebuttal so far, so I’m here scratching my head what might have…
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Twin: A Possible Solution to AI Context Rebuilding [P]
Over the last few months I've realized that I spend an absurd amount of time (and money) teaching the same things to AI over and over again. Information about my projects is already there. Slack contains discussions and decisions. GitHub contains commits and pull requests.…
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Neurips 2026: does every metareview recommend accept/reject? [D]
I see some people say their metareview already contains a decision/recommendation (all of them were rejections). Ours doesn’t. Even though our avg score is 3, the metareview seems optimistic and finishes with “a convincing response would be an important consideration while…
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neurips 2026: ACs and reviewers have disappeared [D]
we submitted our rebuttal via the "Rebuttal" button before the author/reviewer/AC discussion period officially opened (Jul 27 AoE). since then, we've gotten complete silence from all four reviewers and the AC several of us are also reviewing this cycle. when the discussion…
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Conference Reviews: Asking Too Much? [D]
There's a kind of review that asks for lengthy additions, usually extending the scope of the paper beyond the stated, even though the submission is at page limit. Naturally, such additions in the case of top-tier conferences have to go into the supplemental materials or…
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ARR August Cycle [D]
Mine was just submitted, and the submission count shown is still under 500. Does anyone know whether this count is meaningful for identifying the intended venue, possibly EACL, or whether it is simply low because many authors have not submitted yet or the counter is incomplete?…
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No replies to rebuttals and comments even by AC [D]
Not even the AC, nor reviewers, is responding to our comments in rebuttals, and they were all submitted well before the discussion period started. What is one to do in this case?   submitted by   /u/bricklerex [link]   [comments]
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[R] CausalVLBench: Benchmarking Visual Causal Reasoning in Large VLMs.
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Discussion About Meta-Review Issue Report in ARR Cycle [D]
So guys, this is one of the discussions that I wanted to engage in for sometime now. Based on your personal experience in the ARR cycles, I want you guys to share your experience on your meta reviews especially if you have filed a meta-review issue report in the same in the past…
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[D] Self-Promotion Thread
Please post your personal projects, startups, product placements, collaboration needs, blogs etc. Please mention the payment and pricing requirements for products and services. Please do not post link shorteners, link aggregator websites , or auto-subscribe links. -- Any abuse…
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