2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews
March 18 2026 On Violations of LLM Review Policies Gautam Kamath ICML 2026 By ICML 2026 Program Chairs Alekh Agarwal, Miroslav Dudik, Sharon Li, Martin Jaggi, Scientific Integrity Chair Nihar B. Shah, and Communications Chairs Katherine Gorman and Gautam Kamath.AI has increasingly become a valuable part of researchers’ workflows. Unfortunately, AI has the potential to hurt the integrity of peer review if improperly used. Conferences must adapt, creating rules and policies to handle the new normal, and taking disciplinary action against those who break the rules and violate the trust that we all place in the review process. ICML is actively working to adapt. This year, we desk-rejected 497 papers (~2% of all submissions), corresponding to submissions of the 506…
