One author per paper: AI conference registration squeeze sparks authorship jokes

andimarafioti · x · 2026-09-07

Researcher andimarafioti jokes that this year it's "one author per paper" — if his last-authored submission is accepted, the first author attends while he stays home, a jab at the tight registration limits at the merged NeurICMLR conference.

In the quoted context, @thegautamkamath notes that any author of any accepted paper (main conference or workshop) had a reserved registration, and the cap was conservative enough that no one with an accepted paper who wanted to attend was turned away.

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