Mufan Li
mufan-li.bsky.social
Mufan Li
@mufan-li.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UWaterloo Statistics and @VectorInst | Prev: Postdoc @Princeton PhD @UofTStatSci

https://mufan-li.github.io/
Thank you!
November 28, 2024 at 2:10 AM
I think the award has its fair place, since it’s hard to predict the value and impact of a paper 10 years later. I just think we shouldn’t devalue a paper based on current popularity alone, given that’s more about sociology rather than the work itself.
November 28, 2024 at 12:26 AM
I think this rise and fall of popularity of methods says more about the community than the method itself. Honestly who knows if there’s just one clever trick needed to make GANs better than diffusion models.

We really don’t need to be so obsessed about SOTA.
November 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM
May I be added as well?
November 27, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I don’t think “surprising” is a meaningful quality to evaluate. Most results are trivial once understood properly, and surprise mostly depends existing intuition being inadequate.

E.g. scaling laws are basically non-parametric rates, and you deviate if you are not minimax optimal.
November 24, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Nice to know there are other metal heads here :)
November 24, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Perhaps if the users with higher connectivity (influencers) post more on B than X, then the majority of users who are just consuming the content will prefer B instead.

The influencers also do not have to be following an optimal strategy.
November 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Honestly my AC batch is decent. Far better than the quality of reviews I’ve gotten for my own submissions.

I would prefer more reviewers to have a stronger opinion though, but usually each paper got 1-2 of those.
November 23, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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