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Researcher faces ICLR review challenge over paper similarity

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A researcher is facing a dilemma at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) after a reviewer noted their submitted paper is too similar to a previous version presented at a workshop. The researcher acknowledges the method and title changes might obscure the connection, but argues it's essentially the same improved work. Despite poor initial scores, the researcher seeks advice on how to address the reviewer's concern about the paper's novelty without violating anonymity rules. AI

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Researcher faces ICLR review challenge over paper similarity

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

    ICLR27: Reviewer says my paper is too close to the same paper that I previously had in a workshop. [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I submitted my paper to ICLR, after improving and correcting since I &quot;published&quot; it previously in a workshop/arXiv. In this process, I changed the name of the method and title.</p> <p>Now a reviewer, pointed out that my method is very c…

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