Can conference review infrastructure keep up with the increasing volume of NON-SLOP research due to agentic tools? [D]
Summary
The article discusses how AI tools are accelerating genuine ML research, leading to increased submissions at conferences like ICLR 2027, and questions whether review infrastructure can keep up, proposing that reviewers might need to use AI tools as well.
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