Ethical Challenges Related to the NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award
To AI Research Community: This report is written to convey our serious concerns about the recent recipient of the Best Paper award at NeurIPS 2024, Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction (VAR) . While we acknowledge that this NeurIPS paper is technically sound, we must emphasize that it involves serious misconduct by the first author (Keyu Tian), which fundamentally undermines the core values of integrity and trust upon which our academic community is built. Considering the critical importance of upholding ethical standards in academia—especially in the rapidly evolving fields of AI—we respectfully urge the community to reconsider granting this award. This report presents all relevant facts and evidence to the research community, detailing the event, the link between Tian’s actions and the paper, and the negative impact on both the NeurIPS conference and the broader research community. Our goal is to ensure transparency and uphold the eth
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