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§ art-008-negative-results · April 20, 2026 · PERSPECTIVES

The Case for Negative Results in ML Research

Harikumar · 5 min read

Most ML papers report only what worked. But the experiments that failed -- the hypotheses that were wrong, the architectures that underperformed -- carry just as much scientific information. Here is why negative results deserve publication, and how to write them up.

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