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I often need to discern what the State of the Art (SOTA) is for certain Machine Learning Applications, which I currently ask on the Fast.ai forums. For example:

I don't think these are on-topic, because the question essentially boils down to "what's out there?" which isn't very answerable and seems more suitable for a forum and/or wiki. However, I wanted to check my conclusion with the community before self-filtering.

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    $\begingroup$ I'm afraid that with "what's deep learning SOTA for X" we would have to update the answers every week... $\endgroup$ – Tim♦ Mar 15 at 15:40
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    $\begingroup$ Somewhat related is: stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5540/… I believe that is very important for such questions to describe a clear scope, and this is a bit of a grey area. What is expected to be a sufficient answer? A question that is phrased as 'how does X deal with Y?' is already more specific than 'what are (latest) examples of X dealing with Y' (how big of a list is expected, does it need to be exhaustive, just provide a few of the most recent/important, how novel does it need to be to classify as sota, etc?) $\endgroup$ – Sextus Empiricus Mar 15 at 16:38
  • $\begingroup$ No one objected to my question about SOTA for some image benchmarks stats.stackexchange.com/questions/363640/… $\endgroup$ – Sycorax says Reinstate Monica Mar 23 at 16:36
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Both of those examples seem to me to be well researched, & narrow enough in scope for our Q&A site. "What's state-of-the-art in supervised learning", on the other hand, would, I think, be too broad.

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    $\begingroup$ In other words, specific problems presented with sufficient context can be considered on-topic? I'm just trying to rephrase this to make sure I understand. $\endgroup$ – Seanny123 Mar 15 at 16:17
  • $\begingroup$ @Seanny123: Yes. The 2nd example could perhaps do with some clarification: what kind of explanation are you looking for? - global or local? $\endgroup$ – Scortchi - Reinstate Monica♦ Mar 15 at 18:00

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