ICLR reviewer avoids LLM-sounding titles when bidding: no bidders may signal a bad paper
gsarti_ · x · 2026-10-22
An ICLR reviewer reports that this year's batch wasn't too bad on AI-generated papers, partly because he categorically avoided LLM-sounding titles during reviewer bidding.
He suggests this could be a way forward for conferences: if no reviewer is willing to bid on your paper, maybe something was wrong with it from the very start — turning 'zero bidders' into a screening signal.
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