119k papers later: top-venue acceptance exploded from 968 to 19,003 per year since 2006
angelaqdai · x · 2026-09-27
A researcher pulled stats from CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR, and SIGGRAPH/SA/ToG since 2006: 119k papers plus 460k arXiv preprints.
Key figure: annual top-venue acceptances exploded from 968 (2006) to 19,003 (2025), already at 18,976 in 2026 — roughly a 20x increase in two decades.
The author asks how much of this explosion is AI-generated and opens a thread on the paper-production bubble.
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