20+ ICLR 2027 Submissions Found With Fabricated Results, Sparking Reproducibility Critique

srchvrs · x · 2026-10-23

Gautam Kamath highlights Nihar B. Shah's blog post documenting 20+ ICLR 2027 submissions with clear signs of fabricated results — some effectively exposed by their own figure captions.

In the replies, srchvrs adds a related pathology: worse than releasing no code is releasing "code" that doesn't work, doesn't match the paper, and can't be fixed even by two experienced ML engineers — with authors refusing to provide fixes or clarifications.

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