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Researcher frustrated by ICLR desk rejection over 1-page limit

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A researcher on Reddit expressed frustration after their paper was desk-rejected from the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) due to exceeding the 9-page limit. The user noted that the page overflow was minor, only affecting half of a sentence on the tenth page, and was not caught by the LLM feedback tool provided for the paper. This oversight led to the desk rejection, which the user found to be a humiliating and criminal experience, especially after the paper had already been de-anonymized. AI

RANK_REASON User expresses frustration about a research paper submission process, not a research milestone. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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Researcher frustrated by ICLR desk rejection over 1-page limit

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Eclectic_eels ·

    Crashing out after ICLR desk rejection: "content exceeds the 9-page limit." [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Half of one sentence in my paper trails onto page 10...</p> <p>This must have happened after a small edit and recompile of the pdf on resubmission?</p> <p>but this got me desk rejected??? Is this normal?? This wasn't even flagged by the official …

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