Honestly I’m surprised by how low Nature has fallen. Is it even a useful signal of paper quality anymore? NeurIPS and ICLR aren’t great but in general I’ve foun

Honestly I’m surprised by how low Nature has fallen. Is it even a useful signal of paper quality anymore? NeurIPS and ICLR aren’t great but in general I’ve found their work to be more rigorous than that of Nature despite of the fact that they are shorter conference papers compared to Nature’s journal papers. Right now sadly the only useful signal in Deep Learning research is research group. If OpenAI releases a paper I know it’s something good that works at scale, similarly if Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar and team in Meta AI release a paper, it tends to be really good and SOTA. Google Deepmind maintains high quality, Google brain has been more of a mixed bag. If Berkeley releases a paper, it has 50% chance of directly going to trash, Stanford has a much lower percent (I also disambiguate) based on specific groups. Of course I’m going to be heavily biased and this system is not great, but conferences and journals have managed to become such a useless signal that I find this method to be more accurate.