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As a consultant data scientist who attended NeurIPS this year I was surprised at how few of the talks and posters covered innovations practically applicable out
by renjimen 2y ago
As a consultant data scientist who attended NeurIPS this year I was surprised at how few of the talks and posters covered innovations practically applicable outside of niche domains. Those that did (DL for tabular data, joint LLM training with RAG, time series foundational models) were swamped with attendees. It's not that there aren't jobs for innovators, it's just that there needs to be some amount of applicability of your research outside the theory of learning.
- mvkel 2y agoIsn't this just the culture of "true" AI researchers? Until very recently (2019?) it was almost exclusively an academic pursuit
- currymj 2y agothe physical conference itself is now an excuse for companies to throw lavish parties, but NeurIPS as a publication venue is still mainly for academics. for research that translates directly to an industry setting, look someplace like KDD. venues like that are where data science/ML teams who do some research but are mainly product focused tend to publish.
- renjimen 2y agoI’ve been to those industry ML conferences and they are often just dressed up product pitches. Most talks are 5 mins of methods followed by 15 mins of sales.
- bradneuberg 2y agoWhat was the joint LLM training with RAG work? Sounds interesting.
- renjimen 2y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12854 https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12854