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The 4th round of SIGMOD 2027 has *659* submissions. This is 2-3x more than previous years! I downloaded the abstracts & compared them against last 10yrs of SIGMOD/VLDB papers. I then evaluated them to see how writing changed since ChatGPT dropped in 2022. Many papers are clearly LLM written.

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I am not going to review a bad AI generated paper. It’ll get a one sentence review and a request to desk reject it. Happy to get banned as a reviewer for doing so.

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We are thrilled to announce this years accepted papers for the Journal Track, featuring 64 papers from the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 16 from the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), and 8 from the Annals of Statistics (AoS).

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What is TMLR doing under a 300% increase in submissions? - Suspensions of >150 authors - Publicly naming major violations - Submission quotas distinguishing slop patterns - Desk rejections 6% → 53%; focus on clarity - AI reviews evaluating soundness blog.tmlr.org/2026/adaptin...

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