Honest archive · 05
Gallery N°5 · Permanent collection · Free admission
Curated by the authorNo retouching
Museum ofFailures.
Every rejection is a draft of a better paper. Here are mine.
7
Rejections
3
Acceptances
30%
Hit rate
Exhibit A — The scar curve
Exhibits B–K — submission specimens
- B.012023-09
CVPR
Reject“Reviewers liked the idea, hated the experiments. Fair.”
- C.022023-11
AAAI
Reject“Borderline. We ran it again with more seeds — it held.”
- D.032024-03
ICML
Reject“Strong reject from R3. We rewrote the introduction completely.”
- E.042024-05
ECCV
Reject“Off topic for the venue, in retrospect.”
- F.052024-08
NeurIPS
Reject“Reviewers disagreed strongly. We picked the harshest reviewer's framing — it improved the paper.”
- G.062024-11
AAAI
Accept“Same paper, different audience.”
- H.072025-03
CVPR
Reject“Two strong accepts, one strong reject. The lottery was unkind.”
- I.082025-05
NeurIPS
Accept“The ablations finally told the story end-to-end.”
- J.092025-09
ICLR
Reject“Honestly, we submitted too early.”
- K.102026-01
ICML
Accept“Two years and four versions later.”
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“The work that gets accepted is rarely the work that was submitted the first time.”
— gallery epigraph