Eric Jang: My Criteria for Reviewing Papers
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Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese ( 中文 ) Accept-or-reject decisions for the NeurIPS 2020 conference are out, wi...
Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese (中文) Accept-or-reject decisions for the NeurIPS 2020 conference are out, with 9454 submissions and 1900 accepted papers (20% acceptance rate). Congratulations to everyone (regardless of acceptance decision) for their hard work in doing good research! It's common knowledge among machine learning (ML) researchers that acceptance decisions at NeurIPS and other conferences are something of a weighted dice roll. In this silly theatre we call "Academic Publishing" -- a mostly disjoint concept from research by the way --, reviews are…
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