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unique opportunity to truly shape and influence things here.
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While there is a lot of value in such endeavours, most of our projects
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are not 'leader-board science' in that they do not have the explicit
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are not leader-board science in that they do not have the explicit
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goal of beating all state-of-the-art methods. That is *not* to say that
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we are not interested in producing relevant methods! Our overarching
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goal is to produce excellent science using methods whose performance we
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can *explain* and *understand*. This necessitates comprehensive
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comparisons with other methods, ablation studies, and many additional
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tricks to figure out what is going on. If this sounds enticing to you,
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we would love to hear from you!
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we are not interested in producing relevant methods or that leader-board
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science is bad, on the contrary: As [Jimmy Lin](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin)
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outlines when describing his ideal intellectual [ecosystem](https://github.com/lintool/guide/blob/master/ecosystem.md),
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this type of research is just what comes more naturally to him and his
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group. Our goals are different in that we want to produce excellent
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science based on methods whose performance we can *explain* and
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*understand*. This necessitates comprehensive comparisons with other
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methods, ablation studies, and many additional tricks to figure out what
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is going on. If this sounds enticing to you, we would love to hear from
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you!
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To learn more about our working style, see [this note for potential
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student collaborators](https://bastian.rieck.me/collaborations).
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student collaborators](https://bastian.rieck.me/collaborations) and read
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our [research guide](/guide).
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## Bachelor's and master's theses
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