[D] ICLR now has a track with race-based (and more) acceptance criteria : MachineLearning

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2023-01-24 17:30:06

But to keep things interesting, since it's organized by the DEI initiative, there are restrictions as to who can author the submitted papers.

Each Tiny Paper needs its first or last author to qualify as an underrepresented minority (URM). Authors don't have to reveal how they qualify, and may just self-identify that they qualify.

Our working definition of an URM is someone whose age, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic makeup is from one or more of the following:

Underprivileged: not affiliated with a funded organization or team whose primary goal is research First-time submitters: have never submitted to ICLR or similar conferences

Is this really the way the field should go? I feel like this is something that should never have passed any ethics board, but clearly the organizers disagree.

I'm going to be much more aggressive in removing comments that are intentionally obtuse. If you have something constructive to say, please be civil (no insults, snark, etc) in your comments otherwise your comment will likely be removed.