- The most scathing reviewer 2 review I have ever read
This is not my paper. Not my review either. Official Review of Submission21893 by Reviewer Xz8e Paper Summary: The paper tries to learn correlations among components of each latent state in a...
286 points52 comments5 d ago
- ICLR 2027 Review Scores [N]
128 points33 comments5 d ago
- ICLR 2027 Reviews Discussion [D]
The ICLR 2027 reviews will be released soon. Share your results here, and keep a lookout on papercopilot to judge your odds. I also found paperScorer quite interesting for the same. Of course,...
124 points755 comments7 d ago
- Try my dang hardest to come up with novel research ideas, but everything feels clunky [R]
Im an incoming masters student in ML, a bit older than most (31). I’ve read 100s of papers over the last 7/8 years from the foundational papers in the field to niche papers that never got adopted...
65 points33 comments5 d ago
- The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook: training Mixture-of-Experts models with Megatron-LM, setting by setting [P]
Handbook: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/moe-blogpost Hello, I'm Nouamane, one of the authors. I'm at Hugging Face and also worked on the Ultra-Scale and Smol Training Playbooks, if...
58 points7 comments6 d ago
- What is now considered a “reasonable” publication rate (papers/year) for a PhD student to be considered “productive”? [D]
I would assume LLMs have bumped this number, or maybe not. Which is why I am asking. If there are PIs on here, how many papers before you let your students graduate? Is the number different now...
57 points29 comments7 d ago
- What exactly is the relationship between ML academia and industry/big tech nowadays (2026)? [D]
It was clear to me that around 2012 - 2018ish, academic research was kind of paving the way for many applications in industry, from deep nets for vision to RL algorithms. There was tremendous...
52 points14 comments5 d ago
- Did we ever really get to the bottom of why BatchNorm works? [D]
It's been a long time since I studied this. Just checking in on an old friend.
50 points20 comments2 d ago
- Publication expectations for ML PhDs at top-10 US schools / top ML groups? [D]
From what I’ve read on Reddit so far, I’m getting the impression that around 4 first-author papers at top ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.) is a fairly standard expectation for graduating...
44 points64 comments7 d ago
- ICLR 2027 Reviews are out [D]
How did it go? I will start: 3/3/2
40 points130 comments6 d ago