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Red-Portal t1_irbwou6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in [D] How hard is it to join a lab during Master's? by Ok-Experience5604

The norms did change quite a bit. Undergraduate research programs are an official thing in many departments and undergrads with proper first-author papers are definitely not common but do exist. But this will wildly depend on the field.

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[deleted] t1_irby34u wrote

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Red-Portal t1_irbypcb wrote

Okay let me first explain how ML research works. Here, people are pretty anti-journal and most of the best work gets published in the so-called "top conferences." And yes, I have personally seen papers written by undergrads in those conferences. Before working in ML, I personally published a computer systems papers in our top journal when I was a junior undergrad. So yes, undergrads doing grad-level research do exist, including my past self.

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