[D] Publishing Negative Results

I‘ve been working on a ML research project, and unfortunately, the results don‘t align with my hypothesis. I‘ve gotten negative results.

While disheartening, I believe there‘s great value in sharing these results as the hypothesis itself relies on a sensible theoretical foundation, and it‘s not a priori evident that the results would have been negative.

So, my question is, can negative results be published at top ML conferences (NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML/…)? Have any of you faced similar situations? How did you navigate …

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