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ICLR Submission: Numbered Citations vs. Author-Year Format

A user on the r/MachineLearning subreddit is inquiring about the possibility of using numbered citations in submissions to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). The user notes that the official instructions specify an "Author Year" format and asks if deviating to a numbered format would result in an immediate desk rejection and if anyone has prior experience with this citation style. AI

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ICLR Submission: Numbered Citations vs. Author-Year Format

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/confirm-jannati ·

    ICLR numbered citations possible? [R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The instructions say Author Year format. But I was wondering if do numbered instead (no space lol), will it be straight desk rejection? Has anyone submitted with numbered format before? How did it go?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &…