On Violations of LLM Review Policies

Source: https://blog.icml.cc/2026/03/18/on-violations-of-llm-review-policies/

Published: 2026-03-18. Updated: 2026-03-26. Inspected version: Official conference account, updated. Retrieved: 2026-11-09T21:38:53.814986+00:00.

Source annotation (reported findings): The ICML conference chairs’ report (published March 18, 2026; updated March 26, 2026) records 795 flagged reviews by 506 reviewers under an agreed no-language-model policy. Corrected figures link 497 rejected submissions to 398 reciprocal reviewers, whose own submissions depended on reviewer participation. Organizers describe hidden PDF instructions plus human checking of every flag, acknowledging detection is partial and evadable. Flagged reviews were removed; 51 reviewers lost all their reviews, so 795 is not necessarily the total deleted. These are organizer-reported policy violations, not findings about review quality or reviewer intent.