ICLR's new Informativeness review question wins praise: "What did I learn?"
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-10-27
- ICLR's review form now includes an Informativeness question — "What did you learn from this paper?" — with the top rating being "a substantially deeper understanding of the problem."
- Scholar Kostas Penn praised the addition, saying it has always been his first question when reading a paper.
- The screenshot shows ICLR's three scoring axes: Presentation, Informativeness, and Soundness, each on a 1-3 scale.
The change signals top-venue reviewing shifting from flaw-hunting toward measuring a paper's net contribution to field understanding.
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