This award was founded in 2021, and used to have the sponsor, Squirrel AI, in the title. The winner got 1 milion dollars! Now, Squirrel AI has been removed from the title, and it's "only" worth 25000 dollars (2.5% of orig). Wonder what happened. Congrats nonetheless to Tuomas.
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LLM-Generated Scientific Contributions and Author Responsibility
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At least within the context of the areas we work in, I don't really see the issue with that. If there are novel scientific contributions, which were created by the authors (potentially coerced from an LLM), and they are willing to take responsibility for it, seems fine to me.
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Keynote talks and broad vision in AI research
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I think keynote/invited talks sometimes serve this purpose, where established researchers often try to give a more broad vision beyond just one work/paper. But I agree that it's not perfect, and I like the explicit focus here on the broad vision.
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Parametric Bootstrap for Private Statistics Research Methods
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Sigh, I knew I was missing something in the related work. Yes, I was aware of this nice work by Cecilia, Shufan, and Dan — they use the parametric bootstrap for bias correction in private statistics (among other things). Will definitely add this one to the next revision.
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Emoji Reactions as Research Quality Metric Critique
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The most accurate way to evaluate quality of research papers is by the number of emoji reactions they get when posted on Slack
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ICLR 2023 Accepted Papers Now Visible on OpenReview
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Accepted (and not accepted) papers for @iclr_conf are now visible and de-anonymized on OpenReview #ICLR2023 https://
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AI Tools Disclosure Standards for Academic Authors
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1. Authors should report tools they use (consistent with field standards)
2. Authors always take responsibility for paper contents
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Trade-off Optimization Using Higher Order Distribution Moments
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Yes! The trade-off gets better if you have more moments for the underlying distribution (versus just a variance). We have the theorem in the paper.
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Research Impact Beyond Papers: Building Cumulative Understanding
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Many have the misconception that research is just about publishing papers. In my view, research is about creating a body of work that, when taken in aggregate, extends our understanding. Papers are just stepping stones. This seems like a nice initiative to refocus things.
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Unbiased Algorithms in Differential Privacy Research
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BONUS TWEET Be sure to also check out this other paper posted at the same time, by @thesasho and Haohua Tang, also focused on unbiased algorithms in differential privacy. Despite similarities in the titles, the settings are mostly different. https://
arxiv.org/abs/2301.13850 9/8