Show HN: Best Rejected Papers

1 deneutoy 0 7/23/2025, 9:12:44 AM deneutoy.github.io ↗

OpenReview.net has been a mainstay of conference reviewing for some of the largest Machine Learning conferences for the past 7 years. As all reviewing and acceptance decisions are public, we can analyse the quality of peer review over time by linking open review papers to academic graphs like Semantic Scholar.

Over the past 2-3 months I’ve done this linking process for ~40k papers, as well as compiling a complimentary dataset of ~400k structured review comments from the paper discussions.

This blog post has a few preliminary pieces of analysis, including the “Best Rejected Papers” from some recent ML conferences (including ROBERTa (42k citations) and Improved Denoising Diffusion models, a very influential paper in diffusion modeling).

Any feedback on the dataset/interesting further analysis is welcome!

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Show HN: Best Rejected Papers

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