ICML 2027 chair asks for ideas on submission explosion; scholar proposes submission caps and desk-rejects
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-09-22
- ICML 2027 Program Chair Andrew G. Wilson publicly asked for suggestions on managing the explosion of AI slop and submissions, improving reviewing, incentivizing quality, and cutting bureaucracy.
- mircomusolesi proposed: (1) cap submissions per author at a small N across NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR (possibly JMLR/TMLR) with TMLR-style weighting, forcing self-selection; (2) return to a single author-comment box plus one confidential box, with at most 1-2 flags for ethics/AC attention; (3) reviewer- or AC-initiated desk-rejection confirmed by AC/SAC, as some ACM venues do; (4) simplify rebuttals as much as possible; (5) stricter limits if caps prove insufficient.
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