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[D] ICML Rebuttal Question

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In responding to the ICML rebuttal regarding the perception that your method lacks novelty, it’s essential to clearly articulate the significant contributions of your work. Highlight how your approach not only surpasses all baselines but also achieves unexpected results through a unique combination of existing and novel components. Emphasize that the groundbreaking nature of your findings has garnered surprise within the field, showcasing their importance.

I am currently working on my response on the rebuttal acknowledgments for ICML and I doubting how to handle the strawman argument of that the method is not "novel". We were able to address all other concerns, but the reviewers keep up with this argument.

The issue is that our approach is mostly novel. We are able to outperform all baselines, and even a set of baselines which our method should not have been able to outperform. We achieve this through unexpected means, whereby we exactly could pinpoint the reasons why we could do this. Everyone in our field are surprised with these results, and says they are sort of groundbreaking for the field.

However, we were able to do this by combining existing components, which were never used in our domain. We also introduced novel components, but the reviewers do not care about them. Does someone know the best way to react to this argument?

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