The four criteria for research impact: important problems, strong baselines, scalability, real usability
srchvrs · x · 2026-10-27
srchvrs summarizes (with conference slides): for an invention to matter it should solve an important problem, be well engineered and maintained, outperform strong baselines, and scale — essentially be practical. Slides give parallel criteria for LLM developers and any audience, noting "this is hard and takes time."
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