Definition
Plain language
A major annual AI research conference, focused on how machines learn representations.
As stated in the literature
The International Conference on Learning Representations, a top-tier machine-learning venue; one of four proceedings audited in the Phantom References citation study.
Why it matters: As a top venue, what it accepts and rejects shapes standards for the field, including its recent stance against fabricated citations.
For example, a team with a new way of teaching networks to represent images might submit their work to ICLR.
Heard on the show
“They audited about forty-eight thousand accepted papers and over two and a half million references across ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, and USENIX Security.”Episode 201 — One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist