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ICML 2026 Opens in Seoul: Record 23,918 Submissions, New AI Review Rules

This year’s ICML conference received a total of 23,918 paper submissions, more than double as compared to the previous year. Out of these 6,352 papers were accepted, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 26.6%

The world’s premier machine learning conference opens in Seoul with record-breaking numbers — 23,918 paper submissions, more than double last year — and an unprecedented experiment: formal rules on whether AI can help review AI research, enforced by watermarks hidden inside the papers themselves.