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

Posted by luxshan_t 19 hours ago

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.

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Comment by giacomoforte 35 minutes ago

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".

Comment by sivasuthan9 18 hours ago

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!!!

Comment by sivasuthan9 17 hours ago

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

Comment by jubeerathan 16 hours ago

1,500,000 submissions for ICLR.

Comment by sivasuthan9 17 hours ago

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

Comment by tmpsvc2695f5 10 hours ago

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Comment by jubeerathan 18 hours ago

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