[HN Gopher] A Case of Plagarism in Machine Learning Research
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       A Case of Plagarism in Machine Learning Research
        
       Author : EvgeniyZh
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-04-12 18:46 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nicholas.carlini.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nicholas.carlini.com)
        
       | lol1lol wrote:
       | 100% are chinese names. yes, correlation is not causation.
        
       | cs702 wrote:
       | The individuals listed as authors of the paper who _blatantly_
       | plagiarized the original research happen to work at prominent
       | government organizations, educational institutions, and major
       | corporations:
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       | * Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
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       | * Tsinghua University
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       | * Wechat, Tencent Inc.
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       | * Northeastern University
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       | * Renmin University of China
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       | * Peking University
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       | * Huawei TCS Lab
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       | * Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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       | * Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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       | * JD AI Research
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       | * Harbin Institute of Technology
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       | * Columbia University
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       | * ByteDance AI Lab
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       | * Microsoft Research Asia
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       | * Mila-Quebec AI Institute & University of Montreal
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       | * New York University
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       | * BeiHang University
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       | * Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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       | * Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences
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       | IMHO, the main authors, who copied and pasted text without giving
       | credit, should be _fired on the spot_.
        
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         | WithinReason wrote:
         | Which of the 100 authors did the copying?
        
           | myth_drannon wrote:
           | I find it hard to believe that all of them collaborated on
           | the paper or even aware that their name is on it.
        
       | behnamoh wrote:
       | I thought journals use some software to detect plagiarism by
       | scanning the submitted files and checking for copied text. Of
       | course, it's not as straightforward because of all the symbols
       | and math involved. But I think whether the files are submitted as
       | Latex or Word docs, Regex must help extract pieces of text and
       | reverse search them in previous papers. The problem is that this
       | necessitates scanning previous papers too, which journals might
       | not be able or willing to do.
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       | Anyway, I always thought research in ML is suspiciously fast
       | paced, but most published work is honestly bs. This post says one
       | reason for this might be the fact that most research isn't
       | actually contributing much to the literature, but rather
       | reiterating previous papers.
        
         | rockinghigh wrote:
         | This paper doesn't seem to have been submitted to a
         | journal/conference and probably didn't go through a standard
         | peer review process.
        
       | light_hue_1 wrote:
       | As an adult, with a PhD, doing research in machine learning I
       | have difficulty reading a paper that's all about BMs ...
        
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