When you pick up a SoTA algorithm and try to apply it into a particular problem, ... it does not work or does not work well enough.
You must modify or fix it. Combine it with other approaches. Be able to know what algorithms to pick. Without knowing how the thing works, what the internal dynamics is, what are the bottlenecks and limitations you get nowhere. Trying to fix problems by blindly tweaking parameters is not going to work.
You don't have to be able to analyze and do research on internals by yourself, but you must understand the papers and be able to get the idea. Just like engineer doing signal processing must know lot about Fourier transform, wavelets, Laplace transforms even if they forget the details and forget some equations.
When you pick up a SoTA algorithm and try to apply it into a particular problem, ... it does not work or does not work well enough.
You must modify or fix it. Combine it with other approaches. Be able to know what algorithms to pick. Without knowing how the thing works, what the internal dynamics is, what are the bottlenecks and limitations you get nowhere. Trying to fix problems by blindly tweaking parameters is not going to work.
You don't have to be able to analyze and do research on internals by yourself, but you must understand the papers and be able to get the idea. Just like engineer doing signal processing must know lot about Fourier transform, wavelets, Laplace transforms even if they forget the details and forget some equations.