ML Papers Accepted Without Code

🔑 Enhanced Key Takeaways

• •Major conferences like AISTATS 2026 explicitly ban hidden LLM prompts in submissions, with policies to reject and report violators, including retroactive rejection post-acceptance[1].
• •NeurIPS 2025 proceedings included over 100 papers with AI-hallucinated citations that survived peer review despite a 24.52% acceptance rate[7].
• •ICML 2026 introduced a new policy capping reciprocal reviewers per person and regulating LLM use in reviewing to enhance integrity[3].
• •TMLR journal paused new submissions from December 2025 to January 2026, amid broader efforts to manage rising ML paper volumes[9].

🔮 Future ImplicationsAI analysis grounded in cited sources

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