What 320,000 Public Reviews Say About AI Conferences
I collected every public review on OpenReview for ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML. ICLR submissions grew 19-fold in eight years, and one in five now has 'LLM' in the title, yet those papers are accepted at exactly the average rate. Plus: the score that gives a coin-flip chance of acceptance, what rebuttals are worth, and the rise and fall of 'delve'.
Oct 7, 2026
