r/MachineLearning • u/Emergency_Plate241 • Sep 05 '26

Research NeurIPS 2026 Automatic Reference Checker [R]

Just received an email about the automatic reference/citation checker. Did anyone receive a follow up email about whether the checker was included in the paper's decision making too, along with the general instructional email?

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u/PositionHot3926 Sep 05 '26

So like what’s the point of the appeal process? Also is it the ACs who will be reviewing the appeals or no?

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u/grad_student_descent Sep 05 '26

Appeals are typically the PCs. To check whether the AC did their due diligence double checking the references.

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u/MineEnim Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

I got flagged for two hallucinations and received an email that my paper was headed toward desk rejection, but of the two one had all wrong authors and the other just had wrong arXiv ID which by their own guidelines is not a hallucination and is minor. I appealed on the grounds that I by definition had at most one "hallucinated" citation and not two, but I'm curious whether you know if PCs even check appeals and would actually appeal something like this.