Too many machine learning papers? - The Data Mining Blog

A few days ago, I have read a post on LinkedIn showing that the number of Machine Learning (ML) papers has been increasing very quickly over the last few years to about 100 ML papers per day (on Arxiv, a popular public repository of research papers). That is about 33,000 papers per year. This shows the excitement about the new advances in that field in particular with respect to deep learning that has lead to obtaining good results for various applications. Some people on LinkedIn wondered if there are too many ML papers and how they could keep up with advances in that field. I will make a few comments about this.