machine-learning-research-leaves-negative-results-unpublished CLM-0519
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Machine learning research treats beating the state of the art on a benchmark as the main kind of publishable result, so negative results — methods that did not work, conditions under which a known method fails — go largely unpublished, and compute is spent repeating attempts that others have already found not to work; registering what does not work is no less important than registering what works.

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