Ask HN: ICLR went from 143 submissions to 62,301 submission IDs – what happened?

10 years ago, ICLR had just 143 submissions. ICLR 2026 received 19,525 valid submissions. Just before the ICLR 2027 deadline, we saw submission ID #62,302. The OpenReview ID isn't the final submission count, but the growth is pretty wild to see.

8 points | by luxshan_t 23 hours ago

6 comments

  • giacomoforte 5 hours ago
    Used to be in every AI/ML job advert, that they preferred those who had previously published in the top 3.

    Ironically now it has become a bit of a meme and I see it less often as one of the "nice to have".

  • sivasuthan9 23 hours ago
    This is wild. I submitted at 11:08am IST, the submission ID was already #55,005. By 11:45am IST it had reached #55,499. a HUGE submission number!!!
  • sivasuthan9 22 hours ago
    Really curious to see what research will look like 5–10 years from now :)
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    • jubeerathan 21 hours ago
      1,500,000 submissions for ICLR.
  • sivasuthan9 22 hours ago
    there’s another interesting problem, do authors always understand what they submit?

    Some CMU researchers looked into exactly this and proposed a method to tackle it: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/preprints/greCAPTCHA.pdf

  • tmpsvc2695f5 15 hours ago
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  • jubeerathan 23 hours ago
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