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Sowmya Narayanan Active 310 pts · Accepted answer

This is really helpful context. One more question: for the ethics committee approval, does the institution where the data is collected or the institution where the analysis is performed need to be the primary ethics approver?

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Asha Pillai Distinguished 880 pts · Accepted answer

As a senior faculty member (25 years in the system), I want to offer a different perspective. Yes, the pressures are real. But I have also seen the other side: students who produce excellent work, publish honestly, and build reputations over time. The system is imperfect but not entirely broken.

What has actually helped my students: choosing venues carefully (a few strong papers rather than many weak ones), developing genuine collaborations rather than transactional coauthorships.

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Kavitha Subramanian Active 365 pts · Accepted answer

Strongly agree with the point about choosing venues carefully. One paper in NeurIPS > five papers in obscure workshops.

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Neha Agarwal Growing 90 pts · Accepted answer

This question comes up a lot. The answer really depends on your specific field and what your committee values.

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Royal Dsouza Starting 30 pts · Accepted answer

Strongly agree with the point about choosing venues carefully. One paper in NeurIPS > five papers in obscure workshops.

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Preethi Anand Distinguished 690 pts · Accepted answer

Check whether your institution has a Springer/Elsevier waiver agreement.many NITs and IITs do.

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Priya Nair · Accepted answer

Thank you for the honest take. This is the kind of answer I was looking for.not the sanitized version.

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Chirag Mehta Starting 15 pts · Accepted answer

Thank you for this detailed answer! A quick follow-up: when you mention cosine learning rate with warm-up, are you warming up the LoRA parameters specifically or the entire model including the frozen backbone?

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Ganesh Menon Growing 140 pts · Accepted answer

For longitudinal data with missing values, mixed-effects models handle this more gracefully than imputation in most cases.

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Amit Joshi Starting 15 pts · Accepted answer

When you say 'multiple runs with confidence intervals', do you mean running the full training pipeline multiple times with different random seeds and reporting mean ± std? Or something more statistically rigorous?

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Jaya Lakshmanan Growing 50 pts · Accepted answer

Thank you for this detailed answer! A quick follow-up: when you mention cosine learning rate with warm-up, are you warming up the LoRA parameters specifically or the entire model including the frozen backbone?

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Royal Dsouza Starting 30 pts · Accepted answer

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this out in detail. This is going straight into my research notes.

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Arjun Venkatesan Growing 195 pts · Accepted answer

If you are not already using a reading group format with your students, I would strongly recommend it. Forces everyone to articulate what they read.

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Ashwin Murthy Distinguished 560 pts · Accepted answer

Thank you for this detailed answer! A quick follow-up: when you mention cosine learning rate with warm-up, are you warming up the LoRA parameters specifically or the entire model including the frozen backbone?

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Quamar Ahmed Growing 65 pts · Accepted answer

Check whether your institution has a Springer/Elsevier waiver agreement.many NITs and IITs do.

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Deepa Krishnamurthy Distinguished 810 pts · Accepted answer

[Moderator] Pinning this thread as it contains highly useful information for new PhD students.