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October 27, 2026 ai_technology community

How to do method research when I feel I have no guidance on doing it? [D]

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I am a 3rd year PhD student in a small lab working on ML in healthcare. My PI is new (we have no PhD graduates yet - lab is 4 years old). I want to publish in a top ML conference (I know its necessary for an ML researcher job). And my PI is saying you need to do method research and I don't know how to do it? We don't have the amount of data to do foundational models. Our data is very small. I feel like my PI had me jumping around topics he was excited about for the 1st two years of my Ph

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