{"n": 30447, "grounds": [{"n": 4381, "exemplars": ["It is unclear if there are new algorithms or merely reinterpretations of standard results.", "Unclear extent to which the proposed decomposition differs from prior works.", "The combination of instance perturbation, parameter perturbation, and temporal information lacks strong motivation, supporting references, and empirical isolation of contributions.", "The idea is not sufficiently novel given prior work on approximating high-order gradients.", "Analysis similar to prior work with unclear new challenges.", "Unclear innovation compared to prior art."]}, {"n": 2860, "exemplars": ["Method resembles a combination of existing approaches.", "The method seems to simply combine existing techniques.", "The method appears to be a straightforward combination of existing techniques.", "Approach appears to be a combination of existing methods.", "The approach is similar to existing methods.", "The method is a combination of several existing techniques."]}, {"n": 4576, "exemplars": ["The paper appears to be a combination of existing EfficientZero algorithm with data augmentation and similarity losses.", "The combination of existing techniques achieves SOTA without using larger neural networks.", "The method resembles existing ideas from kernel-based neurons (Xu et al., 2001) and approximate learning for mixture of Gaussians (Verbeek et al., 2003).", "The approach builds upon existing RL and generative learning algorithms.", "Previous works have explored methods based on model gradients for merging.", "many similar methods exist that incorporate past models effectively"]}, {"n": 3179, "exemplars": ["Work appears to be combining existing things rather than proposing a novel method.", "The contribution appears to be a combination of existing techniques rather than a new intellectual insight.", "The method does not appear to be a major innovation over prior art.", "The method is not particularly novel compared to existing approaches.", "The combination of existing techniques does not appear particularly novel.", "Proposed algorithms do not appear significantly novel compared to existing work."]}, {"n": 2385, "exemplars": ["method largely combines existing techniques without new algorithmic components or theoretical insights", "The method combines existing models without introducing significant new ideas.", "Combines existing techniques without a fundamentally new theoretical or algorithmic contribution.", "Method combines existing techniques without significantly advancing state of the art; experiments lack depth.", "The work combines existing techniques without introducing new concepts.", "Method combines existing ideas without clear new theoretical contribution."]}, {"n": 3729, "exemplars": ["prior work demonstrated similar findings via different methodologies", "The identified mechanisms are similar to those found in previous work.", "The method incorporates several components from prior work.", "Some findings demonstrated in existing work.", "The approach is similar to a significant body of prior work.", "Prior work already explores similar domains."]}, {"n": 1667, "exemplars": ["The novelty seems limited compared to existing methods.", "The novelty seems limited compared to existing methods.", "Novelty appears limited compared to existing approaches.", "Novelty appears limited to combining existing approaches.", "Novelty appears limited to combining existing approaches.", "The novelty is limited compared to existing techniques."]}, {"n": 2466, "exemplars": ["The paper combines known techniques without surprisingly strong results.", "Novelty unclear; paper combines existing concepts rather than making fundamental contributions.", "Paper lacks novelty; contribution of method is limited.", "Unclear separation between existing work and the paper's innovations.", "Paper lacks a point of differentiation from many existing similar studies.", "Theoretical novelty of the paper is unclear."]}, {"n": 3375, "exemplars": ["Question of whether the algorithm learns novel mappings.", "Linear reparameterization and learned positional encodings are not very new or highly specialized.", "Core ideas (learnable wavelets, thresholding, sparsity) exist in prior literature; novelty is engineering integration rather than fundamental new method. Missing subjective evaluations and efficiency evidence.", "Lack of citation and discussion of prior research on time-invariant convolution (Chaman & Dokmanic 2021; Chen et al. 2024).", "Prior work exists on TDA for neural networks and zigzag persistence; the paper does not demonstrate sufficient differentiation from these baselines.", "Core idea resembles existing graph contrastive learning methods; fails to sufficiently differentiate from prior pairwise comparison works."]}, {"n": 1829, "exemplars": ["The reviewer finds the methods not particularly novel given existing techniques.", "The reviewer argues that prior works have shown similar results in different domains.", "The approach is not sufficiently differentiated from prior work cited by the reviewer.", "Reviewer acknowledges clever modeling choice but argues the approach is not novel.", "The reviewer doubts novelty because the work utilizes existing tools to address a small part of the problem.", "The reviewer acknowledges most components are not intrinsically novel."]}], "warrants": [{"n": 2416, "exemplars": ["A contribution must demonstrate genuine novelty rather than incremental combination of existing methods; unclear positioning undermines the paper's value.", "Lack of novelty in core technique undermines the paper's contribution.", "The paper's contributions may not be sufficiently distinct from existing literature, weakening its claim to novelty.", "Because related techniques already exist in the literature, the paper's contribution is not sufficiently novel.", "Lack of distinct technical novelty undermines the paper's contribution.", "A paper claiming novelty must demonstrate what is distinct from prior work; the authors have not sufficiently differentiated their contribution."]}, {"n": 3393, "exemplars": ["Differentiation from prior art is required for contribution.", "A novel contribution requires distinguishing new methods from existing ones and acknowledging relevant prior art.", "Need to 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"exemplars": ["Establishing novelty requires distinguishing from prior art.", "Novelty requires distinguishing contributions from prior art.", "Novelty requires distinctiveness from established methods.", "Novelty requires distinction from existing similar approaches.", "Distinction from existing methods is necessary to establish novelty.", "Differentiation from prior art is necessary to establish novelty."]}, {"n": 2607, "exemplars": ["Incremental contribution lacks distinctiveness compared to established methods.", "Incremental contributions that combine existing techniques without significant new insight are less valuable.", "The contribution may be incremental rather than novel without thorough differentiation from prior work.", "Incremental extensions of existing work without significant new insights do not constitute strong contributions.", "Without precise differentiation, the contribution may be incremental rather than novel.", "Incremental changes over existing specialized 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do not match theoretical premises, raising doubts about applicability.", "Unjustified mathematical assumptions and lack of statistical reporting weaken empirical validity.", "Contradictory results need explanation to establish novelty or correctness.", "Discrepancy between theoretical requirements and experimental settings undermines validity."]}, {"n": 3356, "exemplars": ["Novelty challenge: the central algorithmic contribution is a minor variant of existing work rather than a new insight.", "Technical critique on novelty: the components appear incremental or generic rather than novel contributions tailored to the MLLM domain.", "Novelty standard: incremental variations on existing methods do not constitute sufficient contribution.", "Prior-art comparison: incremental combination of known methods does not constitute sufficient novelty.", "Novelty standard: Incremental application of existing theory lacks sufficient originality.", "Combining existing techniques without sufficient 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distinctions from prior decomposition approaches in related work.", "Demonstrate distinctiveness from standard gradient-based bounds.", "Demonstrate clear differentiation from prior adaptive scaling ideas.", "Differentiate clearly from meta-learning and dynamic expansion works.", "Clarify distinct contributions beyond known latent-space manipulation techniques.", "Compare against specific prior art to demonstrate distinct advantage in the deterministic task setting."]}, {"n": 1757, "exemplars": ["Clarify distinct novelty compared to prior work.", "Clarify differences from prior work to establish novelty.", "Clarify and demonstrate distinct novelty over prior art.", "Clarify explicit differences from prior work to establish novelty.", "Clarify distinctions from prior work to establish novelty.", "Justify novelty more clearly and compare with recent methods."]}, {"n": 2203, "exemplars": ["Clarify distinctions from existing approaches.", "Clarify differences and new contributions compared 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{"text": "Novelty requires more than combining existing methods.", "year": 2024, "forum": "B4XM9nQ8Ns"}, {"text": "Novelty requires differentiation from existing methods.", "year": 2025, "forum": "SFkIb7pb8x"}, {"text": "Novelty requires more than combining existing established techniques.", "year": 2023, "forum": "MuoduaZpQxE"}, {"text": "Novelty must be distinguished from existing methods.", "year": 2025, "forum": "pUbbLHjCPM"}, {"text": "Novelty requires more than combining existing techniques;", "year": 2025, "forum": "jJJOoLVAEm"}, {"text": "Novelty requires more than combining existing techniques;", "year": 2024, "forum": "Q1u25ahSuy"}]}, {"n": 1330, "exemplars": [{"text": "contributions must be distinct from prior art.", "year": 2026, "forum": "NMKVz3hQfz"}, {"text": "Differentiation from prior art is required for contribution.", "year": 2025, "forum": "T0ebbDO60R"}, {"text": "A contribution must be more than a combination of existing techniques", "year": 2025, "forum": 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