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martinkunev t1_ivxtknz wrote

The abstract looks very promising. I'm wondering why there is just 1 citation in 4 months. Is there a caveat?

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new_name_who_dis_ t1_ivy2et6 wrote

Getting lots of citations a few month after your paper comes out only happens with papers written by famous researchers. Normal people need to work to get people to notice their research (which is they are sharing it here now).

And usually a paper starts getting citations after it’s already been presented at a conference where you can do the most easiest promotion of it.

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terranop t1_ivyafa1 wrote

While what you are saying here is true, it doesn't really apply in this case because Anima Anandkumar is a famous researcher.

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new_name_who_dis_ t1_ivybdq7 wrote

Oh I didn’t know them. Still if it’s only been out a few months for it to be cited it would have needed to be noticed by someone who is writing their next research paper and have that paper already published.

Unless preprints on arxiv count. But even then it takes weeks if not months to do research and write a paper. So that leaves such a small window for possible citations at this point.

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samloveshummus t1_iw1qaft wrote

As well as what the other commenters are saying, sometimes deeper stuff takes longer to have an impact. If you look through the history of science (and human endeavor more generally), there are many famous examples of people whose work revolutionized our modern world, but who weren't recognized in their lifetime - society needed time to catch up.

Now I think we can do a lot better than that. We're a global civilization that communicates at lightspeed. However, we are still also big hairless apes with CPUs made of electric jelly, so we take a while to process things. The more unexpected, the more processing we need.

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lynnharry t1_iw9rfek wrote

Multiple reviewers pointed out that the empirical study is only limited to a modified ResNet and two datasets.

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