ICLR Hits 60k Submissions, and arXiv Is Inflating Everyone's Google Scholar Egos

andimarafioti · x · 2026-09-21

A wry take on ICLR reportedly reaching 60,000 submissions: most papers end up on arXiv anyway, "inflating our egos through Google Scholar" — a joke about publication inflation in AI academia.

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