Dietterich urges researchers to publish 'best publishable units', not micro-result papers
tdietterich · x · 2026-10-02
Renowned ML researcher Thomas Dietterich pushes back against 'least publishable unit' culture: authors increasingly split extra ablations or slight architectural tweaks from existing work into micro-result papers. He encourages publishing 'best publishable units' instead—presenting work in more complete form to discourage fragmented submissions.
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