Bad but typical NeurIPS experience? [D]
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- I tried to do all my NeurIPS reviews responsibly, even for the papers I suspected to be AI slop. I even gave what apparently were very nice scores compared to the scores I ended up getting. (I don't just mean the absolute number for my scores were higher, but that they were calibrated differently--I only rejected for severe issues, while I had a reviewer who only raised very minor issues but gave a reject, with a 1 for all the subscores.)
- I got shockingly bad reviews for my own paper; two of them were straight up adversarial. (I have quite a bit of experience publishing at this point, so I say with some confidence that I rolled an unusually adversarial batch.)
- The AC was almost nonresponsive until the last day. All but one of the reviewers was nonresponsive, only one responded when the AC prompted them to, and that was to say that their concerns were addressed but they maintained their reject score.
I'm not surprised by my experience given how much of a lottery these conferences are, but it's a very toxic system.
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