alt Hacker NewsIt's often quite common to see a citation say "BTW, we weren't able to reproduce X's numbers, but we got fairly close number Y, so Table 1 includes that one next to an asterisk."
The difficult part is surfacing that information to readers of the original paper. The semantic scholar people are beginning to do some work in this area.
yeah thats a good point. the citation might actually be pointing out a problem and not be a point in favor. its a slog to figure out... but seems like the exact type of problem an LLM could handle
give it a published paper and it runs through papers that have cited it and give you an evaluation