KAN author Ziming Liu: even top researchers can't predict AI experiment outcomes before running them

ZimingLiu11 · x · 2026-10-31

ZimingLiu (KAN author), on Day 3 of the MetaCircleAI Research Exposition with a linked paper, notes a truth of research practice: even top researchers often have little clue what an AI experiment will produce before running it — you usually have to actually run the experiment to get the results.

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