ICML 2027 chair asks for help curbing AI slop as scholar proposes submission caps
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-09-22
ICML 2027 Program Chair Andrew Wilson publicly asked for creative suggestions on managing the explosion of AI slop, insane submission growth, reviewing burden, and bureaucracy.
Researcher mircomusolesi proposed a concrete reform package:
- Cap submissions per author to a small N across NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR (possibly JMLR/TMLR), with TMLR-style weighting, forcing self-selection of quality work and killing quantity-based strategies
- Return to a single author-comment box plus one confidential channel for reviewers/ACs/chairs, with at most 1-2 flags for ethics issues
- Add desk-rejection by reviewers or ACs, validated by the AC or SAC, as some ACM venues do
- Simplify the rebuttal process as much as possible
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