🔥 ICML 2025 Review Results are Coming! Fair or a Total Disaster? 🤯
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ICML 2025 review results will be disclosed soon, and the reactions will be explosive! Some might be celebrating, some may be outraged, and others could just be confused.
Did your paper survive the brutal review process?
Were the reviews fair or just random rejection roulette?
Overworked reviewers? Unfair scoring? Biased decisions?Let’s Break It Down
Review Quality – Are reviewers actually reading papers, or just speed-running decisions?
Review Workload – Is ICML expecting too much from reviewers?
Scoring System Madness – Are papers judged fairly, or is it a dice roll?
️ Transparency Issues – Why is the review process still a black box?
Declining Paper Quality? – Are we seeing more “spam submissions” or just cutthroat competition?Tell Us Your Story!
Did your paper make it, or did ICML crush your dreams?
What’s the most absurd review you received?
Reviewers, are you drowning in paper assignments?Drop your experiences below! Anonymous rants welcome.
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If you feel upset, check this paper out
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Here is a crowed sourced score distribution for this year:
https://papercopilot.com/statistics/icml-statistics/icml-2025-statistics/And, you can also refer to the previous year's score distributions in relation to accept/reject:
https://papercopilot.com/statistics/icml-statistics/
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Just heard this from a fellow researcher who’s reviewing for ICML 2025:
"... They keep enforcing mandatory reviews for authors, ... The review process has gotten way too complicated - each paper requires filling out over ten different sections. It’s already unpaid labor, and now it feels like they’re squeezing reviewers dry. Honestly, this kind of over-engineered reform is making things worse, not better. Review quality is only going to keep declining if it keeps going this way.”
Yikes. Anyone else feeling or hearing the same? -
Here is a crowed sourced score distribution for this year:
https://papercopilot.com/statistics/icml-statistics/icml-2025-statistics/And, you can also refer to the previous year's score distributions in relation to accept/reject:
https://papercopilot.com/statistics/icml-statistics/ -
If you feel upset, check this paper out
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Just heard this from a fellow researcher who’s reviewing for ICML 2025:
"... They keep enforcing mandatory reviews for authors, ... The review process has gotten way too complicated - each paper requires filling out over ten different sections. It’s already unpaid labor, and now it feels like they’re squeezing reviewers dry. Honestly, this kind of over-engineered reform is making things worse, not better. Review quality is only going to keep declining if it keeps going this way.”
Yikes. Anyone else feeling or hearing the same?@lelecao said in
ICML 2025 Review Results are Coming! Fair or a Total Disaster? 🤯: Just heard this from a fellow researcher who’s reviewing for ICML 2025:"... They keep enforcing mandatory reviews for authors, ... The review process has gotten way too complicated - each paper requires filling out over ten different sections. It’s already unpaid labor, and now it feels like they’re squeezing reviewers dry. Honestly, this kind of over-engineered reform is making things worse, not better. Review quality is only going to keep declining if it keeps going this way.”
Yikes. Anyone else feeling or hearing the same?Peer review should stay unpaid as I know. Payments may cause great biases and unfairness though people love money including both you and me.
What are other ways for simplification? -
ICML — also known as I Cannot Manage Life. The world’s most famous reviewer torture conference, held annually. You submit one paper, review five. Doesn’t matter if it’s not your area — you’ll have to figure it out anyway. Comments need to be detailed, long, and exhaustive. Finishing one review basically feels like writing half a paper. No money for reviews, just dedicating all your pure love. And after all those late-night comments? Guess what — the AC might not even consider them, and even a paper with all-positive reviews can still get rejected.
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ICML — also known as I Cannot Manage Life. The world’s most famous reviewer torture conference, held annually. You submit one paper, review five. Doesn’t matter if it’s not your area — you’ll have to figure it out anyway. Comments need to be detailed, long, and exhaustive. Finishing one review basically feels like writing half a paper. No money for reviews, just dedicating all your pure love. And after all those late-night comments? Guess what — the AC might not even consider them, and even a paper with all-positive reviews can still get rejected.
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I posted more astonishingly funny reviews here:
https://cspaper.org/topic/26/the-icml-25-review-disaster-what-does-k-in-k-nn-mean
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Wish all best of luck! 
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