More than 60 thousand papers submitted to ICLR, the main machine learning conference, more than in its entire history combined
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SI research is accelerating so fast that humans physically cannot keep up with checking it: peer review, it seems, will also have to be entrusted to machines.
ICLR 2027 has 62,288 registered abstracts, 143% more than a year ago (25,649), whereas 2026 saw 19,525 full submissions and 2013 had just 67. Organizers capped each author at 20 papers in advance; at the previous workload such a flow would have required about 98 thousand reviewers. The Decoder attributes the explosion to SI tools that speed up paper writing: at ICLR 2026, fabricated references had already been found in generated texts.