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Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea by 1970-01-01 on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:18PM (#47494551)
> The original paper used several medical X-ray datasets which I don’t have access to anymore, so I needed a new dataset with spatial annotations to test the expert attention mechanism. I picked the Ukiyo-eVG dataset: ~11K Japanese woodblock prints

That's such a weird switch. There's lots of free medical imaging online. Example: https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/

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Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea by ykumards on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:19PM (#47495921)
That’s true! It felt a bit flippant to give medical data to an agent. Also, I wanted to see if the model would work in other domains!
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Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea by make3 on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:19PM (#47497926)
but doesn't it break the assumption that it should ideally be able to reproduce your original results
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Re:Autoresearch on an old research idea by ykumards on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:38AM (#47498645)
IMO it would be hard to reproduce the results using autoresearch setup.

To get CLIP to work properly we typically need large batch sizes. So the experiments in the original paper were quite heavy, and ran parallel across 8 GPUs.

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