The number of AI-related research papers has skyrocketed in recent years, outpacing papers from all other academic topics since 2000. This has, not unsurprisingly, resulted in a shortage of qualified peer reviewers in the machine learning community, particularly when it comes to conference paper submissions.
Researchers who submitted papers to the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018 (NIPS) began receiving their reviews last week — and many are less than satisfied.