Should charge AI for training on top of it or get them to donate. A small amount can fund them easily.
It would be nice if the corporations pay for the bandwidth. As arXiv corpus hosted on GCP, network charge cannot be small.
ArXiv's Next Chapter
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One growing role, especially in mathematics, is that of a host for "overlay journals": https://www.insmi.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/epijournaux-en-mathema... I really like the idea. In short: arXiv, HAL and similar sites host the papers without any peer review (short of perhaps stopping crank spam) or access control. They're freely available to anyone. Authors then submit arXiv IDs (or similar) to the reviewers of "overlay…
I’ve been arguing for this for a long time, glad to see this sort of thing start. Papers “being in” a journal hasn’t made sense for a long time, but curation is valuable as is staking reputation on something. People I was with called some of this “badges”, there is no reason why a paper cannot be reviewed by a set of people who say “this is new and innovative stuff in the field and highly important if true, but we’re…
A future system that works like you described would be awesome. It'd be like community-sourced peer review (although by community I mean a community of experts in different fields, not arbitrary individuals).
I'd love a statistician's review on a ton of the papers I read.
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#93Thought-provoking closing paragraph from the linked Cornel Chronicle article about the transition: “It’s now difficult to prepare for the world three months from now if the median LLM-produced computer science paper is better than that produced by the median grad student.” https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/06/digital-research-re...
"Morrisett also said that arXiv needed to be more nimble when it came to hiring – and paying – staff than was possible under the Cornell umbrella."
IOW, it's hard to hire the software engineers at the University payscale.
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#94I always struggle to figure out what role arXiv should play in my information diet. On the one hand I support Open Access research. On the other hand, peer review is vital, and a substantial quantity of “papers” on arXiv are just blog posts in a LaTeX trench coat.
Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
Yes, you can subscribe to an arXiv RSS feed for your specific research field (or register to email notifications if you prefer that), and get an overview of everything going on in your field.
In my field (condensed matter physics), most colleagues appear to monitor arXiv at least weekly.
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#95I always struggle to figure out what role arXiv should play in my information diet. On the one hand I support Open Access research. On the other hand, peer review is vital, and a substantial quantity of “papers” on arXiv are just blog posts in a LaTeX trench coat.
For academia people who care about publication, arxiv is more like a place to claim a spot before others do and before a paper gets accepted somewhere. It's also easier to get open-access publications from arxiv, as some journals are still behind paywalls.
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#96I always struggle to figure out what role arXiv should play in my information diet. On the one hand I support Open Access research. On the other hand, peer review is vital, and a substantial quantity of “papers” on arXiv are just blog posts in a LaTeX trench coat.
If you know the authors of your specific area of research, arXiv is a nice way to read their new papers when they are (mostly) done but the submission to a journal is not finished yet.
Out of curiosity, what actual journals (with peer review) do you read to keep up with research developments relevant for tech?
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If you know the authors of your specific area of research, arXiv is a nice way to read their new papers when they are (mostly) done but the submission to a journal is not finished yet.
Out of curiosity, what actual journals (with peer review) do you read to keep up with research developments relevant for tech?
I'm in math, so I can't give you an answer on tech journals unfortunately. And for math, I don't really read any specific journal. It's so much work to read and get something out of a research paper in math that I pretty much only read papers that are directly related to my work or have been recommended to me.
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they also keep the papers as a pre-edited, free version of the peer reviewed equivalent
This reminded me of the fact that one colleague of mine even updates the arXiv version if any errors are spotted and says himself that this makes the arXiv version better than the journal version.
fantastic bloke, I wish most people did this
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>3. It puts the effort on the readers to decide whether each paper is valuable, and particularly scientifically valuable, for which most readers will be unequipped. You say it as if replication crisis doesn't exist and publish or perish is not a thing.
Actually, the replication crisis shows how difficult (or underinvested) the process of reviewing is. Removing this (often very basic) peer review doesn't somehow fix the problem. The solution lies in more thorough reviews and replication studies, not in everyone deciding for themselves.
You can't have replication studies if the junk isn't published first.
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#100I always struggle to figure out what role arXiv should play in my information diet. On the one hand I support Open Access research. On the other hand, peer review is vital, and a substantial quantity of “papers” on arXiv are just blog posts in a LaTeX trench coat.
Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
dedpends on your area of interests. Computer Science and yo ucan get more specifics like silicon methods or anything that has to do with that keyword. I look it up to see what new breakthroughs or ideas people are interested in. Then comes where does the research is hosted, from " University" , "large tech company", or independent. Also who is listed on the top. Must check the names to what other work they've have done, adds credit to the research.