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Ask HN: ICLR went from 143 submissions to 62,301 submission IDs – what happened?

8 points - yesterday at 4:29 PM


10 years ago, ICLR had just 143 submissions. ICLR 2026 received 19,525 valid submissions. Just before the ICLR 2027 deadline, we saw submission ID #62,302. The OpenReview ID isn't the final submission count, but the growth is pretty wild to see.

  • giacomoforte

    today at 10:55 AM

    Used to be in every AI/ML job advert, that they preferred those who had previously published in the top 3.

    Ironically now it has become a bit of a meme and I see it less often as one of the "nice to have".

    • sivasuthan9

      yesterday at 4:41 PM

      This is wild. I submitted at 11:08am IST, the submission ID was already #55,005. By 11:45am IST it had reached #55,499. a HUGE submission number!!!

      • sivasuthan9

        yesterday at 5:49 PM

        Really curious to see what research will look like 5–10 years from now :)

          • jubeerathan

            yesterday at 6:47 PM

            1,500,000 submissions for ICLR.

        • sivasuthan9

          yesterday at 6:00 PM

          there’s another interesting problem, do authors always understand what they submit?

          Some CMU researchers looked into exactly this and proposed a method to tackle it: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/preprints/greCAPTCHA.pdf

          • tmpsvc2695f5

            today at 12:54 AM

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            • jubeerathan

              yesterday at 4:38 PM

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