arXiv moderation backlog sparks 'altxiv' proposal: instant acceptance, quality-ranked
arankomatsuzaki · x · 2026-10-24
Aran Komatsuzaki reports a paper stuck in arXiv moderation for 1.5 weeks and proposes "altxiv": instant acceptance for all papers, ranked by quality computed from author affiliations and metadata, plus scraping notable GitHub releases as the arXiv/GitHub boundary blurs.
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