ICLR submissions top 40,000 for 2027, up from about 500 a decade ago

News from Science reports that the International Conference on Learning Representations received more than 40,000 paper submissions for its 2027 meeting, compared with about 500 a decade earlier. Other computer science meetings are also growing rapidly. Many in the field point to interest in AI, pressure to publish and the ease of using AI to write papers faster.