NeurIPS '26 accepts 7,900 papers, 3.6x POPL's entire 53-year output
srush_nlp · x · 2026-09-26
- POPL has published 2,199 papers over its entire 53-year history; NeurIPS '26 just accepted 7,900 papers in one go
- srushnlp jokes that paper titles were running out back in 2019, with "several hash collisions" already
- A wry take on the explosive scale of ML conference publishing
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