ICML 2027 Program Chair Asks Publicly: How to Handle AI Slop and Submission Explosion
andrewgwils · x · 2026-09-21
The ICML 2027 Program Chair publicly solicited suggestions for the conference, asking how to manage the explosion of AI slop and submissions, improve reviewing, incentivize high-quality creative work, and cut bureaucracy — spotlighting the crisis facing ML conferences in the LLM era.
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