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Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

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Keyu Tian is the first author of one of two papers chosen for the main “ Best Paper Award ” at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference.

The committee’s decision to grant the honor to Tian quickly became the focus of wider discussions online about how NeurIPS is run and the way top AI researchers evaluate the work of their colleagues.

A blog post accuses Tian of having “deliberately disrupted experiments, causing erroneous and irreproducible results, severely damaging their physical and mental well-being”.

Tian and his coauthors, however, are optimistic that their future research in areas like AI -generated video could help make running models less resource-intensive. It is becoming “prohibitively expensive” to generate high-resolution videos with traditional AI models, the authors noted in their paper, adding they believe their methodology could provide a solution. “We therefore foresee a promising future for exploiting VAR models in the realm of video generation. ” Zeyi Yang contributed reporting..