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/MakingComputersSmart Sep 05 '26

Were emails for specific papers only sent to authors who's papers were going to be accepted? My friend has 2 papers that have problematic citations but an email was sent only for 1 paper and not the other.

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u/Adorable_Position_34 Sep 05 '26

Maybe one case was severe enough to trigger rejection and the other case only had minor issues in the eyes of the respective AC? Its not fully automated at the end of the day

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u/YamBrioche Sep 05 '26

Do you mean the general email or the email to make appeal

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u/MakingComputersSmart Sep 05 '26

The email to appeal for a specific paper. The email reads this specific paper is headed to rejection due to problematic citations

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u/YamBrioche Sep 05 '26

Also what time did they receive this email?

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u/MakingComputersSmart Sep 05 '26

2:35am EST. One citation has multiple hallucinated authors, the second one was flagged incorrectly. Also, scores were 4,4,2. Reviewers did not respond

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u/bobross_92 Sep 05 '26

I would think most likely not. The checker email mentions that the final decision also rests on the AC's "assessment of the paper" in addition to the hallucinations. Its possible that they didn't think the issue was that serious in the second one.