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What do you check first in a paper's results?
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The absolute size of the improvement, whether there are error bars or multiple seeds, and whether the baselines were run under the same conditions. Then whether the claimed result holds across all settings or only some.
Reading an answer is not being able to give one. The section that teaches this is Reading the results section critically, 4 hours of Reading papers.
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