simple

Definition

A claim that the method has few moving parts, few assumptions, or a short implementation while matching more elaborate baselines. In this field simplicity counts as a genuine contribution, because simple methods are easier to reproduce, tune, and build on. The thing to verify is whether the baselines were tuned as carefully as the proposed method — many "simple beats complex" results hinge on exactly that.

Explainers using this term

• Self-Supervised Learning — The Day Unlabeled Data Became an AssetA Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations
• Music and Audio Generation from Scratch — Sound as TokensSimple and Controllable Music Generation
• Mixture of Experts (MoE) from Scratch — Routing and Load Balancing in the Switch TransformerSwitch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity