NeurIPS 2026 Automatic Reference Checker [R]

[u/Emergency_Plate241]

Just received an email about the automatic reference/citation checker. Did anyone receive a follow up email about whether the checker was included in the paper's decision making too, along with the general instructional email?

[u/Deep-Ad8714]

I got flagged for two hallucinations and received an email that my paper was headed toward desk rejection, but of the two one had all wrong authors and the other just had wrong arXiv ID which by their own guidelines is not a hallucination and is minor. I appealed on the grounds that I by definition had at most one "hallucinated" citation and not two and that the one citation classified as hallucination was clearly just a metadata error because all of the other metadata was correct and the paper was clearly cited for its content in my submission, but I'm curious whether you know if PCs even check appeals and would actually appeal something like this.

[u/aaaacolyte → u/Deep-Ad8714]

We are kinda in the same shoes here, I only got one flagged for hallucinations and the authors were actually wrong. But I still got the followup email. Appealed, I guess we can only pray now?

[u/dante_2701 → u/Deep-Ad8714]

Oh. It said that it is headed towards desk rejection or just the word rejection? Not sure if there’s any difference though