Researchers urge rigorous, confound-free ablations despite high costs
MuCai7 · x · 2026-11-15
Responding to a research-rigor discussion, the author asks: have we done rigorous ablations, and are they designed so points a/b/c don't confound each other? Such experiments are extremely expensive for most labs, but the community should try to be scientific.
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