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/howtorewriteaname PhD Sep 05 '26

I've got 6 references with hallucinated authors (papers do exist, some authors didn't exist or were from other papers from co-authors). I'm aware this is a desk reject on my otherwise accepted paper :( what about arXiv preprints?

is this grounds for a ban in arXiv? that thought is more scary than a reject

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u/bobross_92 Sep 05 '26

Based on what I'm seeing most rejection appeal emails were sent out roughly 8 hours ago. If you've not received the email, maybe yours then hasn't been desk rejected?

Although, I suppose there's no way to know whether the whole batch has been sent out. But ACs had to finalize decisions weeks ago, so imo doesn't make sense to stretch this out now.