#ICLR2023 reviews are out… and seem incredibly brutal for a couple of papers that I really like! (by others, not by me) Good luck and happy weekend to everyone…
@thegautamkamath
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JMLR Review Delays: How TMLR Improves Academic Publishing
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I had the same experience with JMLR back in 2015. After 6 months, they hadn't found reviewers. Withdrew the paper and submitted to a different journal. I like that @TmlrOrg doesn't run into this type of friction, since reviewers are expected to review it after being assigned.
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Advisor Funding Student Conference Travel Costs
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This varies based on advisor and country. But if my students have a paper accepted at a conference, it's already implied that I will cover their costs. My students are thoughtful enough with group resources to look into travel grants and school funding, but the buck stops at me.
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Academic Review: Identifying Non-Novel Results in Research Papers
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By pointing out exactly what they consider to be not novel, e.g., the main result appears to follow as a special case of this result of XYZ. If brought up earlier, maybe the reviewers and authors could jointly figure this out. But at the last minute, the AC's should do it alone
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Protecting Rejected Papers Against Reviewer Copy-Paste Plagiarism
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In some sense, making your rejected paper public can protect against a reviewer copy-pasying the review. You can point out the fact that this is just copy-pasted, with all the critiques already addressed, and any half-awake AC will disregard said reviewer.
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Academic peer review standards for AI research papers
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If the paper reinvents the wheel, they should indicate that clearly to the authors, pointing out which results are superseded. This AC just says "here's a bunch of papers you didn't cite, figure out whether this is new or not."
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Unpunished Academic Misconduct: A Systemic Ethics Problem
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Yep. There's a lot of bad behaviours in academia that go unpunished. This is not good, but probably also one of the milder ones.
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Unlearnable Examples: False Security Against Future AI Systems
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Looks cool! However there's a critique that's been applied to unlearnable examples (
https://
arxiv.org/abs/2106.14851 ft @sanghyun_hong @florian_tramer
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Ethics of accusation: avoiding adversarial framing risks
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This one is at least feasible. But I'd still personally refrain from accusing anyone, since it's easy to frame someone adversarially or even accidentally.
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Security Vulnerability Identified as Potential Attack Vector
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Yeah, it does look pretty bad. But also seems like a nice attack vector 🙂