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A proposal to let ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS area chairs desk-reject roughly half their assigned papers
An area chair says they can quickly spot papers with almost no chance of acceptance and argues reviewers shouldn’t spend time on them.
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An area chair suggests that ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS let area chairs reject roughly half of their assigned papers before review. They say they can quickly scan a batch for papers with almost no chance of acceptance, rather than ask reviewers to spend time on them.
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