ICLR 2027 auto-bid relevance system criticized for anchoring on authors' past submissions

canaesseth · x · 2026-09-24

A researcher criticizes ICLR 2027's automatic bid relevance range (likely OpenReview's): the negative-only bid flow forced him to mark every suggestion "Unwilling" before adding papers he's actually qualified for. He suspects the recommender anchors on his own author submissions — the first pages of suggestions were all diffusion LLM papers — and questions how the mechanism came about.

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