CVPR 2025 organizer: 90%+ of first authors had one submission, so authorship caps won't cut volume

CSProfKGD · x · 2026-09-22

Responding to calls for stricter authorship limits after ICLR 2027's submission surge, CVPR 2025 organizer Fuxin Li argues caps address gift authorship, not volume. His data: at CVPR 2025, over 90% of first authors had exactly one first-authored submission and over 99% had at most two — so tightening limits won't meaningfully reduce submissions. The real problem, he says, is that everyone now expects to be an author.

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