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by chienomi 3394 days ago
Thanks. This can explain the situation where most people are struggling to replicate a neat result in a paper.
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Well, I'm afraid of that I am not so sure. A well-designed paper should demonstrate what the training process was and use a publicly available dataset for training. There are many repositories of training data that exist specifically to provide a standard like this in various domains, so anyone following a paper should be able to use the same training process on the same data and get the same result. A paper presenting a result that cannot be obtained in this way can be informative but does not substitute for peer-reviewed research.
Here is a discussion with some information on such data repositories as I mention in my other reply: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85722/what-is-th...