Punishing poor reviewers at CVPR
machine learning
peer review
opinion
This year CVPR pledged to make all authors participate in peer review, and reject papers from authors who wrote low-quality reviews.1 Last week they confirmed on Twitter that they followed through with this and rejected 19 papers. Presumably this is a tiny fraction of the overall papers submitted, but I hope this is an effective deterrent for future authors. At the very least, I’m glad that some major conference tried something like this!
Update 2025-06-25: NeurIPS is trying something similar now, see https://blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/responsible-reviewing-initiative-for-neurips-2025/. In particular:
- Reviewers who are also authors will not be able to see their own papers’ reviews until they submit their own reviews. This also extends to their co-authors.
- Once again, authors who are alos reviewers can have their own papers desk-rejected if they submit poor reviews.
Overall this seems like a good initiative, but I hope this doesn’t cause people to simply not review at all…