Recently, the Graduate School of Beijing Institute of Technology responded to the incident that caused public controversy that "a paper submitted by a researcher was suspected to be leaked and plagiarized by a master's degree from Beijing Institute of Technology."
On September 20, the website of the Graduate School of Beijing Institute of Technology issued an announcement stating: Recently, a website posted about our school’s 2020 postgraduate student Zhang ×× who uploaded an academic article to arxiv as the signed second author (a joint work). The school attaches great importance to the suspected plagiarism of the paper, and immediately established a working group to conduct an in-depth investigation of the matter, and the follow-up will be dealt with as soon as possible based on the investigation results and relevant regulations.
The announcement emphasized that the school has never tolerated behaviors involving academic misconduct and will severely deal with those who violate academic ethics.
Previously, Zhihu user Wang Jianfeng, a real-name certified researcher of Megvii Technology, posted a post saying that one of his submitted papers had been leaked and was heavily plagiarized. The co-author of the suspected plagiarism paper was a master student from Beijing Institute of Technology.
According to a report on the WeChat public account "Science Net" on September 20, Wang Jianfeng recently published an article "What is the experience of seeing someone else's name on arXiv?
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The article stated that one of its papers submitted to NeurIPS 2020, a top international conference on artificial intelligence, was leaked and plagiarized in June 2020.
The above article details multiple screenshots of evidence to accuse an article published on the preprint platform arXiv on September 16, 2021 for serious plagiarism.
arXiv is a commonly used paper pre-publishing platform in the computer field. Authors can pre-publish papers on this platform to claim ownership of certain methods and ideas.
After pre-publishing on this platform, it will not affect the submission and publication of other journals or conferences.
Wang Jianfeng pointed out that the titles of the two papers are exactly the same, and both are Label Assignment Distillation for Object Detection.
In addition, there are almost identical abstracts, identical pictures and table data, and so on.
And published in "arXiv's article, none of the figures, tables, and formulas are new, and no additional experiments have been done at all."
According to the article information published on arXiv, the three authors of the article are Minghao Gao, Hailun Zhang, and Yige Yan. Which clearly shows that the second work (at the same time as a joint work) and the third work were from Beijing Institute of Technology and Hohai University. According to the student number of the public mailbox prefix, Wang Jianfeng positioned the second work as Zhang Hailun, a 2020 master student in the direction of intelligent information processing and control in the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology.