new_name_who_dis_ t1_irepq7z wrote on October 7, 2022 at 2:34 PM

> I am wondering if ML needs to do what physics did a while ago, and just give up on trying to understand all of it.

I think a lot of people in ML already have been doing that. This doesn’t need to be a widely acknowledged shift. You research what you’re interested in, that’s how you specialize.

there_are_no_owls t1_irf92we wrote on October 7, 2022 at 4:59 PM

I agree with what you said. Still there remains the question of whether to split conferences. What's your take on this?

new_name_who_dis_ t1_irf9n5b wrote on October 7, 2022 at 5:03 PM

Aren’t there already a lot of specialized conferences? Like cvpr and iccv are computer vision, I know theres an NLP one I don’t remember the name.

RL is the only one that I can’t think of a famous specialized conference for but there probably are ones that just aren’t as famous.

MrAcurite t1_irfag9x wrote on October 7, 2022 at 5:09 PM

"Computer Vision" on its own is already a fucking massive field though, covering generative modeling, scene understanding, edge hardware, and everything in between.

csreid t1_irfzua0 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 8:23 PM

Generative image models probably need to fork off sometime soon, especially text-guided versions. It's a pet peeve of mine that we're calling it "vision". Vision, at least to me, implies seeing/making sense of what is actually there.

Ulfgardleo t1_irg49u1 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 8:57 PM

While text-guided image generation is flavour of the month, i don't think that it has broad enough impact to generate a consistent large enough amount of papers to be able to sustain its own conference.

eliminating_coasts t1_iri5g4z wrote on October 8, 2022 at 10:53 AM

I suspect automated image generation is going to become an industry, if not a separate field of study, within the next three years, so we'll start seeing hybrid programmer/artist conferences springing up, with people leaning more towards demonstrations rather than papers.

Best_Mord_Brazil t1_irfl3if wrote on October 7, 2022 at 6:29 PM

NLP has several large conferences that people publish impressive research at.

ACL, EMNLP, COLING, LREC (for datasets!), and the various geolocated variants of each are all prestigious venues.

zy415 t1_irh6dg3 wrote on October 8, 2022 at 2:40 AM

Nowadays there are many niche conferences in different subareas of ML. However, I think it will take some time for those niche conferences to be "mainstream" in the specific subarea, because prestige matters (especially in job application) and those niche conferences are just not as prestigious as the top ML conferences, at least for now. See here for a discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/vjqdom/d_niche_ml_venues_vs_top_ml_conferences/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3