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ICLR template contains duplicate author error since 2019

The official template for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) has contained an error in its sample bibliography file since 2019, listing Yoshua Bengio twice for the Deep Learning book. This oversight was discovered by a user checking reference styles for the 2027 conference. Additionally, the conference guidelines present conflicting information regarding page limits for submissions and camera-ready versions. AI

IMPACT Minimal impact on AI operations; a minor error in a conference template.

RANK_REASON Minor, harmless error in a conference template's bibliography file.

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ICLR template contains duplicate author error since 2019

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