Microsoft Exec Laments Top AI Conference Crisis: NeurIPS Paper Quality Drops
MParakhin · x · 2026-08-03
Mikhail Parakhin notes that since his first NeurIPS in 2001, this is the first year he feels the academic conference is facing a real crisis. He observed that ICML paper quality was noticeably lower than before, and recent NeurIPS reviews included baffling comments like 'this paper is not for the general public,' criticizing the inefficient rebuttal mechanisms between authors and reviewers.
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