ML paper explosion outpaces reviewer pool, peer review is getting 'vibey'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-20
The author argues that the volume of ML/AI papers is growing far faster than the pool of people available to peer review them, so reviewing is becoming increasingly superficial—"more and more vibey."
It points to a structural bottleneck in academic publishing: the widening gap between submission volume and reviewer capacity may be eroding quality control at the venues that gatekeep ML research.
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