Research engineer kalomaze noted massive rejections over perceived novelty issues.
@johnschulman2 That's where my first conference paper got accepted! I just slammed together two SOTA language modeling methods and got +2%. Peer review in AI was a farce long before LLMs
PPO: rejected from NIPS 2017
Users dismissed peer review in AI papers as a farce that long predates LLMs, voicing strong disapproval of the process.
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@johnschulman2 @hallerite one could pack a novel full of papers deemed insufficiently novel...
@hallerite iirc, the usual things: limited novelty, insufficient improvement over baselines
@jsuarez @johnschulman2 *Peer review was a farce long before LLMs