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I didn't even realize this happened. Thank you for posting. Sucks because now I have less respect for Andrew.

I don't understand why you'd want to cheat for a competition like this? I get it, people cheat all the time, but the field of machine learning is built on a foundation of open and shared research, and trust.

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On skim-reading the article it seems they were banned from submitting entries to a competition server for 12 months because they made a significant number of submissions.

It's arguable that they were gaming the system somewhat, but unless a limit was explicitly defined then this just seems like they were doing a lot of exploration in the area.

Imagine if you published some research showing you'd made something that did something cool, but then people lost respect for you because you'd made a lot of previous attempts.

The specified limit was 2 submissions per week, according to the people organizing the competition:

http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-...

1. Third paragraph: "twice a week" 2. They registered multiple accounts to get around the limit. That removes almost all doubt that the submitter knew he/she was cheating

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