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Is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology a commercial entity?

KAIST is a top-tier South Korea university focused on science & engineering.

Can someone explain what this means? Reproducing some private work publicly?

I think they mean using arxiv to host whitepapers so they smell more academic.

What criteria one uses to distinguish a white paper from an academic paper?

Academic papers are peer reviewed white papers aren’t.

This paper is just accepted in NAACL which is a top NLP conference.