Area Chair proposes letting ACs desk reject ~50% of papers at ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS
maksym_andr · x · 2026-10-04
An Area Chair at ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS proposes a controversial fix for review overload: give ACs authority to desk reject roughly 50% of papers in their batch. He argues ACs can quickly scan submissions and spot those with 0% acceptance chances, sparing reviewers from wasting time on hopeless papers.
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