GoKawiilICLR 2027 and other AI conferences cap paper submissions per author
ICLR 2027, to be held in San Francisco, will limit authors to 20 submissions each, with first-time authors capped at one unless paired with an experienced co-author. The conference expects over 62,000 submissions, up from 490 a decade ago. Similar caps have been adopted by the 2027 AISTATS conference in Montreal (12 per author, 3 for newcomers) and the Association for Computational Linguistics' Budapest conference (20 per person, 5 for first-author papers).
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The caps suggest conference organizers are struggling to manage a flood of submissions they attribute partly to AI-generated papers, according to ICLR programme chair Jacob Andreas. Critics like Aylin Yener argue the rules could unfairly favor established researchers over productive newcomers, pointing to tension between curbing mass submissions and ensuring fair access for early-career scientists.
- ICLR 2027 caps submissions at 20 per author, with newcomers limited to one unless co-authoring with an experienced researcher.
- Submissions to ICLR have grown from 490 a decade ago to an expected 62,000-plus next year.
- Other conferences, including AISTATS and ACL, have introduced similar caps, prompting debate over fairness to new researchers.
Source: nature.com — Singh Chawla, 2026-10-13
Published there as: “Inundated AI conferences impose submissions caps”
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