ICLR Flooded With 50,000 Submissions as NeurIPS Reviewer Laments Declining Quality

burny_tech · x · 2026-09-20

ICLR reportedly received 50,000 paper submissions this cycle, prompting jokes about a "DDoS attack on ML research." Meanwhile, a reviewer shared their experience writing NeurIPS workshop reviews, saying "it's only getting worse." Together the posts highlight how AI paper output is overwhelming the peer-review system.

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