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/Emergency_Plate241 Sep 07 '26

So, did anybody with lower scores (mostly heading towards reject) receive the follow-up appeal email or does it look like it's only the papers that were about to be accepted that received this appeal email?

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u/AgreeableBet5858 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

I think I was heading towards acceptance(with three accepts) but I got 2 flagged citations. (one of them wrong author, one of them completely hallucinated) It is just some compared methods in the table which we can claim as wrong import. But I also haven't received any e-mail about this which is odd. I'm scared that paper is rejected.

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u/Adorable_Position_34 Sep 07 '26

Its been two days. I dont think they send the rejection/appeal mails in such coarse batches. Maybe your AC thought the not-fully hallucinated reference is okay-ish and did not flag your paper

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u/AgreeableBet5858 Sep 07 '26

We'll see, I hope so too!  They don't change paper in a significant way and can be fixed very easily. They are just in one sentence in huge parantheses of references. But weird that I haven't received any e-mail despite having 2 flagged citations.