{"slug": "ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the", "title": "AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline", "summary": "ICLR 2027 has received roughly 50,000 abstract submissions ahead of its deadline, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026, according to The Decoder. The surge is attributed to AI hype, corporate pay tied to publication records, and AI tools that make it faster to produce papers, which the report says will worsen existing submission and review quality problems.", "body_md": "ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype, corporate pay tied to publication records, and above all, AI making it faster to crank out papers. That's only going to worsen existing quality problems with submissions and reviews.\n\nThe article [AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline](https://the-decoder.com/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-before-the-deadline/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-before-the-deadline/", "published_at": "2026-09-19 10:37:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 10:55:17.029299+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["ICLR", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-conference-iclr-is-drowning-in-abstracts-with-roughly-50000-submissions-the.jsonld"}}