alt Hacker NewsThey claim the algorithm "discovered" the new techniques, but the methods described in section 5 do not seem all that novel to me. It smells like it could be "laundering" the literature [1] and reshuffling existing techniques. This is not inherently a bad thing, but I would hope that if it is borrowing existing techniques, the appropriate citation would eventually make it into this paper.
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AlexCoventry • yesterday at 9:51 PM
In the future, we will all be Jürgen Schmidhuber. :-)
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alyxya • yesterday at 10:09 PM
There generally aren't new techniques when optimizing something ubiquitous. Instead, there are a lot of ways to apply existing techniques to create new and better results. Most ideas are built on top of the same foundational principles.
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You’re not kidding. I just looked. There isn’t anything novel in that section. I assumed from the description they found novel methods but this is standard GPU Gems advice.