How do I choose a baseline?
Something a reasonable person would actually use for this problem, ideally a published method on the same data. Comparing against a deliberately weak baseline is the fastest way to lose a reader's trust, and reviewers and graders both look for it.
This comes up on MS Computer Science Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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