ICLR reviewer credits aggressive bidding-phase filtering for the solid papers he got
benno_krojer · x · 2026-10-18
Following up on his claim that two-thirds of his ICLR submissions are solid, the reviewer shares a possible reason: he aggressively removed a ton of papers during bidding, only picking titles that suggested analysis/interpretability work rather than generic eval/modeling.
A practical peek at how reviewer-side filtering shapes perceived submission quality.
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