Reddit debates China's ML paper output: 100–200 papers per grad student, one paper a week
Strong_Boy_757 · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Reddit post asks, non-derogatorily, how research is conducted in China given the extraordinary output: ML researchers there (especially in-country) publish 100–200 papers as undergrad/grad students, a paper a week isn't unheard of, and co-author lists run to dozens or hundreds — especially for benchmarks and surveys. Work clusters heavily in LLM/multimodal with few novel mathematical derivations but massive experiment sections, sometimes nearly 100 pages.
The poster notes running some of these papers through ChatGPT/Claude surfaces suspicious LLM-generated sections, yet they still get accepted at ICLR; Chinese faculty in the US recruit via Xiaohongshu/TikTok/BiliBili, suggesting an insular publishing and hiring ecosystem. He asks insiders whether back-scratching publication networks exist and how the system actually works.
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