This post is an update on a major security incident in the ICLR 2026 peer review process and our response. A quick overview of timeline and activities related to the security incident is as follows:  On Nov 27, ICLR was notified of an OpenReview API exploit capable of leaking the otherwise anonymous names of authors, […]

In the past few days, there have been many concerns raised about potential LLM-generated papers and low quality LLM-generated reviews. We take these concerns seriously, and we want to update the community on the steps we are taking and will be taking over the next two weeks.These steps below are based on the policies we […]

The use of large language models (LLMs) is becoming an increasingly common part of many stages of the scientific process, from research ideation to paper writing to writing experiment code and beyond. While LLMs can speed up and improve the research we do, they also make mistakes, including hallucinating facts or making incorrect assertions. Even […]

Part of the ICLR experience is meeting people and talking with them about their research interests and experiences. To facilitate these conversations, we are thrilled to announce the third iteration of Mentoring Chats at ICLR (previously called Office Hours). The Mentoring Chats will be 45-minute round-table sessions, held during lunch (12:30-1:15 pm and 1:15-2:00 pm) […]

Awards Committee: Cordelia Schmid, Guy Van der Broek, Jun Zhu, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Lihong Li, Luke Zettlemoyer, Natasha Jaques, Tao Yu, Yarin Gal Selection Process The ICLR 2025 Outstanding Paper Committee went through a two-stage selection process to identify a collection of outstanding papers and honorable mentions that showcase excellent research presented at this conference. The […]

(This post is written by James Zou, Associate Program Chair for ICLR 2025, and Nitya Thakkar) Peer review is a key element of research and innovation. However, it faces growing strain from the rapidly rising volume of paper submissions, particularly at AI conferences; as a result, authors increasingly express dissatisfaction with low-quality reviews. Therefore, there […]

We are honored to announce the Test of Time awards for ICLR 2025. This award recognizes papers published ten years ago at ICLR 2015 that have had a lasting impact on the field. The 2025 program chairs and general chair reviewed the papers published at ICLR 2015, and selected the two papers below for their […]

We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for ICLR 2025. These speakers were selected to cover a range of topics, both within core machine learning as well as application areas. Those attending ICLR can see the full schedule online. The invited speakers in alphabetical order are (titles and abstracts are subject to change): Danqi […]