Classic research meme: 'Our method wins' — against an untuned baseline
jaivinwylde · x · 2026-10-04
Yacine MTB pokes fun at a familiar AI research trope: a paper claims its method beats the competition, but inside, the comparison is against an untuned baseline. The post resonates as a recurring critique of unfair evaluation practices in ML papers — "proving" superiority by comparing against a poorly tuned rival.
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