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Kosta Derpanis, a York University associate professor, proposes academic conferences desk-reject papers that fail to release promised code or model weights

NeurIPS already requires code and weights at submission time.

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#KostasThoughts: If a paper promises code/weights in the review submission, then it must be made available by the time of the conference; otherwise, conferences should desk reject the paper.

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#KostasThoughts: If a paper promises code/weights in the review submission, then it must be made available by the time of the conference; otherwise, conference should desk reject the paper.

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Francesco Locatello@FrancescoLocat8

@CSProfKGD In the last two years of the NeuIPS datasets and benchmarks track, we required it at submission if they were contributions. The rationale was that whatever is a contribution should be reviewed. Same as a theory paper, which we expect to have the proof

#KostasThoughts: If a paper promises code/weights in the review submission, then it must be made available by the time of the conference; otherwise, conference should desk reject the paper.

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#KostasThoughts: If a paper promises code/weights in the review submission, then it must be made available by the time of the conference; otherwise, conference should desk reject the paper.

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