ICLR 2027 trims review scores to a 4-point scale, reviewers puzzled
random-tomato · reddit · 2026-10-04
An ICLR 2027 reviewer shared the new review scale: recommendation is now just four options — 1 Clear rejection, 2 Weak rejection, 3 Weak acceptance, 4 Clear acceptance, judged on soundness, significance, clarity, and contribution.
- The range is drastically compressed compared to previous years
- The poster questions whether such a coarse scale makes sense
- The assessment dimensions themselves are unchanged; only the decision granularity changed
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