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Desk Reject means that a paper is directly rejected by an editor, area chair (AC) or program committee before entering formal peer review, usually without detailed review comments.
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10/16/2026
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Top AI Conferences Plagued by "Desk Rejects": ICLR Submission Chaos and the Peer Review Dilemma
redditr/MachineLearning10/16/2026
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