ICLR submissions triple to 60,000 abstracts; reviewing would take 250 human-years
gleech · x · 2026-09-20
Giles highlights ICLR's explosive growth: 60,000 abstracts submitted this year — three times last year's count — and reviewing them would take roughly 250 human-years of labor. Pre-LLM submission growth ran 40% annually; this year it hit 200%. He argues publication pressure and slipping standards have intensified 5x, with LLMs acting as the enabler of this surge.
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