Incoming ML masters student: hundreds of papers read, still no elegant research ideas
sooham · reddit · 2026-11-07
A 31-year-old incoming ML masters student on Reddit asks how first authors produce elegant results like diffusion models, VAEs and MoEs. Despite reading hundreds of papers and replicating dozens over 7-8 years, their own ideas feel clunky and crude — are top researchers built different, or did their work also start awkwardly?
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