Yoav Goldberg on ICLR reviewing: question-title papers must actually answer the question
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-21
NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg, amid ICLR reviewing, set out two minimum bars: if a paper's title is a question, the paper must meaningfully try to answer it; if the main claim is producing an artifact with property X, the paper must at least discuss how X was achieved and verify its quality — a jab at clickbait question titles and unverified claims in current peer review.
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