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PublishedMay 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Are We Truly Innovating? A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Originality in AI Research Papers
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arXiv:2602.06054v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Assessing originality in AI research is arguably the most consequential yet least reliable step in peer review. Reviewer judgments of originality remain opaque, inconsistent, and dependent on comparisons to prior work that are often incomplete. In
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