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Sep 26, 2026 · Industry Insights

TMLR Editor's Experiment: 3 of 10 Authors Can't Explain Their Own Papers

TMLR editor Nihar Shah interviewed authors of 10 desk-rejected papers, finding three single-author papers whose authors couldn't answer basic questions about problem setup, notation, or where results were supported; two later submitted AI-generated written responses, and one inadvertently described p-hacking, prompting new verification methods like greCAPTCHA.