Area chair proposes desk-rejecting 50% of NeurIPS/ICML submissions to save reviewers' time
AmartyaSanyal · x · 2026-10-04
An Area Chair at major ML conferences suggests a controversial change: let ACs desk-reject about 50% of papers in their batch, since a quick scan can identify submissions with near-zero acceptance odds and spare reviewers wasted effort. Another researcher echoes the sentiment based on their own ICLR batch.
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