NeurIPS 2019's record-breaking submissions now smaller than 2026's accepted papers

chhaviyadav_ · x · 2026-09-25

The author dug up their first NeurIPS acceptance email from 2019 and noted a striking change: the total number of 'record-breaking' submissions that year is smaller than the number of papers expected to be accepted in 2026 — a vivid marker of AI research's explosive growth.

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