Researcher calls out vision RL papers as p-hacked rather than scalable results
gowthami_s · x · 2026-10-20
A researcher says the quality of some academic vision RL papers is so low that she passed on tweeting about two of them because their results looked p-hacked rather than genuinely scalable — a signal worth noting about reproducibility and statistical rigor in the field.
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