Machine Learning Algorithms & Natural Language Processing

Oct 13, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

AI Reviewers Fooled by Rewrites? 1,200 Papers Tested Reveal SciCore Dual-Branch Fix

Researchers from Virginia Tech, UMD, and MBZUAI rewrote 60 ICLR 2026 papers 20 ways each using GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8, then evaluated 30 AI reviewer configurations on 1,200 rewrites, finding that prompt-based robustness often yields 'false robustness' with near-random discrimination, while their SciCore dual-branch method—combining full-paper review with a structured Science Core extraction—reduces score drift by 38% while preserving discrimination.