Oh no .... The first rounds of ICLR in 2013+ had no page limits (and the submission site was .... arxiv!). At some point I reviewed a 47 page paper which looked like an intern report "we did this, then that, and here is a table, and some python code, and then this didn't work so we did this ..." - ThreadSky

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chriswolfvision.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Oh no .... The first rounds of ICLR in 2013+ had no page limits (and the submission site was .... arxiv!). At some point I reviewed a 47 page paper which looked like an intern report "we did this, then that, and here is a table, and some python code, and then this didn't work so we did this ..."

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jasoncorso.bsky.social•27 days ago

But what was the real challenge --> did the market impact of submitting a ridiculously too long paper not have time to mature. I think the market is a powerful beast.

chriswolfvision.bsky.social•27 days ago

I don't think that this is the relevant question. For me the main point is that the burden should be on the authors to write the paper as clearly as possible in the shortest way possible, and not on the reviewers to sift through a large amount of useless text.

jasoncorso.bsky.social•27 days ago

Inevitably leads to hard/impossible to understand/reproduce terse text. This was the impetus of me making the post.

I mean, eg, let's take a paper / idea everyone clearly thinks is impactful. Transformers... But, have you, umm, read the Attention is all you need paper? Impossible to understand.

omershapira.com•27 days ago

Do you think ATTENTION IS ALL YOU NEED is near a local maximum for description quality:lines allowed? How much would the allowance need to increase for the science communication to improve?

Imho there's no clear answer, but the other extreme, like Shinichi Mochizuki's unchecked works, has downsides

jasoncorso.bsky.social•27 days ago

Oh, it's an example IMO that would have benefited from more space to write more description. That's all I meant.

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