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A reviewer stated on Reddit that they spent 4 hours reviewing a paper and gave it a score of 3/4, but the next day received an email notice that the paper had been desk rejected.
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10/16/2026
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Valid until: 10/30/2026(expired)
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Top AI Conferences Plagued by "Desk Rejects": ICLR Submission Chaos and the Peer Review Dilemma
redditr/MachineLearning10/16/2026
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