"Reject, go get more compute": mocking reviewers who dismiss small-scale NLP work
yoavartzi · x · 2026-09-25
Yoav Artzi satirically channels a reviewer: "PPL numbers are behind models trained on trillions of tokens — reject! Go get more compute before you submit to us again."
The joke skewers how academia's small-scale studies struggle to stay relevant in an era of trillion-token frontier models, with compute thresholds becoming the new bar for publishable work.
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