ICLR hits 50K submissions, reviewers face an impossible workload

miniapeur · x · 2026-09-19

ICLR has reportedly received around 50,000 submissions, with the author quipping good luck to the reviewers. The explosion in AI conference paper volume keeps piling pressure on an already strained peer-review system.

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