ICLR reviewer demands comparison with reviewer-author's own renamed workshop paper

fanconic · reddit · 2026-11-06

An ICLR submission — an improved version of the author's own workshop/arXiv paper with a renamed method and title — drew a reviewer request to compare against "a closely related paper" that is actually the author's own earlier version. The dilemma: how to establish the two are the same work without breaking double-blind anonymity. Scores are already poor, but the situation highlights how renaming methods trips up reviewer matching under anonymity rules.

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