ICLR's 2027 meeting reportedly received more than 40,000 paper submissions

News from Science says more than 40,000 papers were submitted for the 2027 International Conference on Learning Representations by its September 2026 deadline, compared with about 500 a decade earlier. It says other computer science meetings are also expanding rapidly, reflecting what many in the field describe as rising interest in AI, pressure to publish and the ease of using AI to write papers faster.