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When AI Papers Are Not Meant to Be Accepted

Mayank Kejriwal
May 25, 2026
Introduction

This post was either an anonymous submission of an interesting paper or was written by a student; full credit remains with the author (linked).

A summary of a position paper on "agentic denominator gaming" — the unsettling idea that a conference's stable acceptance rate creates an exploitable mechanism: an attacker can flood a conference with fully automated, low-quality submissions that are expected to fail, using the inflated denominator itself to manipulate who else gets in.

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