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Re:At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 sub... by semi-extrinsic on Sunday December 07, 2025 @04:06PM (#46185148)
Yeah, there is an interesting question there (always has been). When do you stop citing the paper for a specific model?

Just to take some examples, is BiCGStab famous enough now that we can stop citing van der Vorst? Is the AdS/CFT correspondence well known enough that we can stop citing Maldacena? Are transformers so ubiquitous that we don't have to cite "Attention is all you need" anymore? I would be closer to yes than no on these, but it's not 100% clear-cut.

One obvious criterion has to be "if you leave out the citation, will it be obvious to the reader what you've done/used"? Another metric is approximately "did the original author get enough credit already"?

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Re:At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 sub... by stdbrouw on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:39AM (#46189498)
Yeah, I didn't want to be contrary just for the sake of it, the heuristics you mention seem like good ones, and if followed would probably already cut down on quite a few superfluous references in most papers.
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