arXiv Sees New Trend of Submissions Whose Authors Likely Don't Understand Their Own Papers
_akpiper · x · 2026-09-14
ML researcher Terry Dietterich (@tdietterich) observes a new trend in arXiv submissions — and presumably conferences and journals: authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand.
A reply proposes a mitigation: attach an "expertise score" based on how many papers the same author has previously published on the topic, including theses, allowing filtering without gatekeeping.
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