ICLR submissions top 50,000 as researcher calls for per-author paper caps
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-20
Roei Herzig notes that every few years the field agrees peer review is broken, yet submissions keep doubling — ICLR just passed 50,000 papers. He proposes capping how many papers one author can submit per cycle, arguing nobody has more than 5 conference-worthy ideas in a single cycle. The number highlights the explosive growth of AI research output and the mounting strain on the reviewing system.
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