In ML results are often a score (accuracy or whatever) which makes it more gamefied
It's common to have competitions where the one with the highest score in the benchmark "wins". Even if there is no formal competition, it's very important being the SOTA model.
Results are more applicable to the real world, and more "cool" subjectively (I don't think there's a 2 minutes paper equivalent for math?), which increases ego.
And often authors are trying to convince others to use their findings. So it's partly a marketing brochure.
It's common to have competitions where the one with the highest score in the benchmark "wins". Even if there is no formal competition, it's very important being the SOTA model.
Results are more applicable to the real world, and more "cool" subjectively (I don't think there's a 2 minutes paper equivalent for math?), which increases ego.
And often authors are trying to convince others to use their findings. So it's partly a marketing brochure.