ICLR Flooded with 50,000 Submissions as Researcher Jokes It's a 'DDoS on ML Research'

Michael_D_Moor · x · 2026-09-20

A researcher reacted to ICLR receiving a staggering 50,000 paper submissions, quipping: "Is this a DDoS attack on machine learning research??" The quip captures mounting frustration over exploding submission volumes, reviewer shortages, and low-quality papers flooding top ML conferences.

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