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If I were an English author writing for a Chinese institution, the first thing I would do before publishing to the world is have my entire paper checked for spelling, grammar, syntax, and readability. It's cheap to have a Chinese-speaking editor, and/or to use AI—especially if that's your field—so why isn't it happening?

This paper, like nearly all other papers written by Chinese authors, is unacceptable, and should not have been published as-is. Even the primary example, turned into a hero viz, is grammatically nonsensical.

Appalling, and inexplicably occurring nearly every time.

/rant mode

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Where are you seeing that this paper was accepted to a peer-reviewed journal or conference? As far as I can tell, it's posted on arXiv (a preprint archive), and therefore is a pre-publication draft. ArXiv does not really do any review of these papers other than categorization/relevance to topic. These are typically posted to arXiv for comment, to prove priority, prevent getting scooped, or just to share (potentially early) findings in a fast-paced field like ML...

Give the authors constructive feedback and they can update the paper.

Grammarly says there are few detected readability problems in the abstract and introduction.

I also checked your comment with Grammarly and the ratio problems/total_#_words is roughly the same as in the article.

At the risk of taking some heat, I’d wager a preprint is recognized rightly by the Chinese as a flag planting, we’re first formality, where in the faults may even serve to validate it was written by human and not an LLM.

Whereas the Western academic may want to make the preprint as close to print as possible.

The core intent - communicating an idea - is still upheld.

It is not published. It is only a preprint.

Maybe they are not allowed to use uncensored LLMs, so they have to first develop this unlearning, before they can even use it.

I am not English native, but this paper seem to be well written. It seems to be not fluent in storytelling, but that would be too high of an expectation. Can you point out some issues?

That's quite racist. Language issues are common in scientific literature, I read many "Native European" papers with horrible abuse of the English language.

That's racist.

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