Area Chair Proposes Desk-Rejecting 50% of Papers at ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS to Save Reviewer Time
menhguin · x · 2026-10-05
An Area Chair for ICML/ICLR/NeurIPS proposes a controversial change: let ACs desk-reject roughly 50% of the papers in their batch. He argues a quick scan is enough to spot submissions with near-zero acceptance chances, so reviewers shouldn't waste time on them.
A reply pushes back: the current precision requirements force this leniency, otherwise legitimate papers wouldn't get reviewed in time. The exchange highlights the review bottleneck as AI conference submissions explode.
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