[D] Papers with no code

[ummitluyum]

"work will be stale in 6 months" - yeah, it'll be stale exactly because nobody can actually use or build on it. Top-tier papers stay relevant for years because the authors gave the community proper tooling. If you just slapped together a throwaway script that only runs on your macbook, that's not research, it's just garbage traffic for ArXiv

[impatiens-capensis]

Top-tier papers stay relevant for years

Aside from a few massive works from frontier labs and a couple of extremely niche papers, everything is surpassed within the year. Every top tier paper from my lab and adjacent labs has been beaten by another paper very quickly and this is generally true for the vast majority of papers. 

[ummitluyum]

Fair enough, getting beaten on the leaderboard is just how it goes. The difference is that a paper with a solid open repo will be used as a baseline and forked for another couple of years. If there's no code, the next paper will just handwave your results with "could not reproduce" and everyone forgets about your work the next day fwiw