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[r/ML] [D] Has industry effectively killed off academic machine learning research in 2026?

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Academic machine learning research is increasingly overshadowed by industry, which now conducts most ML research topics "much better." This shift is attributed to industry's superior access to compute resources and a global pool of talent. Consequently, academia is largely relegated to niche studies on older models, with little prospect of their findings being applied in real-world scenarios dominated by industry advancements.

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