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