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ML student seeks advice on generating novel research ideas

A master's student in machine learning is struggling to generate novel research ideas, despite extensive reading and replication of existing papers. The student, who is older than typical peers, finds their own ideas to be clunky and inelegant, contrasting with the perceived brilliance of published work like diffusion models and token superposition. They question whether successful researchers are inherently gifted or if their initial work also faced similar challenges, and whether luck or astute mentorship plays a significant role. AI

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/sooham ·

    Try my dang hardest to come up with novel research ideas, but everything feels clunky [R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Im an incoming masters student in ML, a bit older than most (31). I’ve read 100s of papers over the last 7/8 years from the foundational papers in the field to niche papers that never got adopted (Hinton’s forward forward, capsule networks). Ive …