About Novelty

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Posted by tianchen on April 26, 2022

About Novelty

转载自 Michael J. Black’s Blog: Novelty in Science A guide for reviewers

  • 公众意义上对Novelty的广泛解释，常会包含：complexity, difficulty, technicality
    • 将Novelty解释为“Beauty”
  • Novelty v.s. Complexity:
    • 误解： “The idea is very simple. It just changes one term in the loss and everything else is the same as prior work.”
    • value simplicity over unnecessary complexity
    • A simple idea can be important. But it can also be trivial.
  • Novelty v.s. Difficulty:
    • 误解 “technical details must be difficult”
  • Novelty v.s. Surprise
    • 误解 “The idea is obvious because the authors just combined two well known ideas.”
    • an idea is obvious after you’ve heard it, reviewers quickly assume it isn’t novel
    • 对reviewer的意见： the novelty, however, must be evaluated before the idea existed.
  • Novelty v.s. Technical Novelty
    • A new dataset can be novel if it does something no other dataset has done，
    • A new use of an old method can be novel if nobody ever thought to use it this way.
    • Replacing a complex algorithm with a simple one provides insight.
  • Novelty v.s. Usefulness of value
    • reviewer的误解 “The authors describe a new method but I don’t know why anyone needs this.”， Lack of utility
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