arXiv quirk: method A and method B papers each published claiming to beat the other
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-05
Replying to Yacine, int16h recalls a recurring pattern in academic publishing: methods A and B both go up as arXiv preprints, each author independently compares against the other, and the published A paper claims superiority over B while the published B paper claims superiority over A — exposing the structural weakness of unbenchmarked comparisons.
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