[ansk]

So glad the AK account exists. As a researcher, I've always wanted some guy with an econ degree and a year of ML eng to recommend me papers after glancing at them for maybe 30 seconds.

I am genuinely baffled that researchers in the field think there is any value in the service AK provides. I'd wager I could create an equally effective bot with the following process:

    1) Create a historical dataset of publications and their citation counts

    2) For each publication extract the following features:

        - H-index of first author

        - Maximum H-index of all authors

        - Number of author affiliations in {top-10 school, deepmind, meta, openai, nvidia}

        - Number of times the phrase "state-of-the-art" appears

        - Which latex template is used (NeurIPS, ICML, etc.)

        - Number of images in the paper

        - Whether there is an image on the first page

        - Whether "all you need" appears in the title

        - Whether the publication has a linked project page

    3) Train a shallow decision tree with citation counts as the regression target

[icyfox]

A friend of mine created a bot to do basically this, except it also looks at the current page rank associated with researchers recommending that paper. I've seen a lot of good looking papers (decent school/group/conference submission/etc.) that don't end up contributing to the field. Top researchers and Professors tend to have a better intuition of importance by reading the abstract and a quick skim.

[abidlabs]

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

[ansk]

Do you by chance have a vested interest in attesting this? A disclaimer might be appropriate if so.

[abidlabs]

Yes you’re right thanks, I should have disclaimed earlier, but AK is a member of the team I lead at Hugging Face.

[refulgentis]

You should be ashamed of yourself and apologize. What's more likely? There's paid shills lying that he provides non-negative value, or you're missing something when asserting for every ML PhD on earth, they must think his extremely popular work has negative value?

[ansk]

Apparently my innuendo has not been taken well, so I'll clarify in more straightforward terms: @abidlabs is the employer of the individual running the aforementioned twitter account.

[jurynulifcation]

If this is true then not disclosing that is extremely unethical of @abidlabs, damn near intellectual malfeasance, and reflects very poorly on the rest of their work.

[jimmySixDOF]

except the fact that the company name is in the handle

[hall0ween]

What is the AK account? This sounds useful for keeping up on research in this field.

[causalmodels]

https://x.com/_akhaliq

[danielmarkbruce]

If someone has done more of the quantitative side of econ, they are well positioned to pick up ML real fast. And the average AI/ML paper simply isn't very difficult to understand. I was a comp sci undergrad and some of the econometrics focused folks were much closer to ML work than anyone doing comp sci (this was quite some time ago though).

[Imnimo]

"Do I recognize the latex template" is my number one filter when clicking through the new arxiv papers each day, so I definitely buy that that would work.

[causalmodels]

> As a researcher, I've always wanted some guy with an econ degree and a year of ML eng to recommend me papers after glancing at them for maybe 30 seconds.

This kind of elitism is baffling given the quality of work from independent researchers recently.

And no, I have no I have no “vested interest” (whatever the hell thats supposed to mean) in someone’s Twitter.