Tiny Papers Track
Following ICLR’s 2023 and 2024 Tiny Papers initiative, we are excited to announce that our workshop will feature a Tiny Papers track!
As stated in ICLR’s 2024 call for Tiny Papers, the objectives of this track are to:
Create alternative, complementary, and diverse entry points to research. And in particular, create approachable avenues for beginners to enter and enjoy the ICLR community.
Celebrate intermediate breakthroughs in machine learning.
Efficiently disseminate ideas, findings, and opinions.
Consistent with previous ICLR policies, since the Tiny Papers track is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, we will require every submission to have at least one key author that meets the underrepresented minority (URM) criteria.
Regarding this criteria, we reiterate ICLR’s previous statement that:
“We acknowledge that there's no perfect definition of an underrepresented minority (URM). Two people with the same immutable characteristics or backgrounds but living and working in different contexts or with different histories may have vastly different experiences and thereby experience the ICLR and wider research community in different ways. We therefore rely on an honorary (self-identify) system and ask that submitters consider the philosophy and objectives of this track when choosing whether or not they wish to submit. We offer some examples of characteristics or backgrounds which we particularly encourage to apply, although this list is by no means exhaustive.”
Within the context of our workshop, we ask that tiny paper submissions be at least one of the following:
An implementation and experimentation of a novel (not published elsewhere) yet simple idea regarding the topics for our workshop presented here
A follow-up experiment to or re-analysis of a previously published paper, where the experiment and analysis focus specifically on our workshop’s topics
A new perspective on a previously published paper, highlighting the paper’s implications for our theme of human-AI co-evolution
A position paper regarding the implications of a policy, algorithm, or technology for human-AI co-evolution
Submission deadline: February 10, 2025, anywhere on Earth
Notification of acceptance: March 3, 2025, anywhere on Earth
Camera-ready deadline (for archival): March 27, 2025, anywhere on Earth
Following ICLR’s previous guidelines, each Tiny Paper needs its first or last author to qualify as an underrepresented minority (URM). Authors don't have to reveal how they qualify, and may just self-identify that they qualify. There’s no perfect definition of an URM. Typically it refers to someone whose age, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic makeup, or identity is far from the majority members in the community. Based on ICLR’s past demographics survey, here is a (non-exhaustive) list of examples of author characteristics which were typically underrepresented:
Age: outside the range of 30-50 years
Gender: does not identify as cis-male
Sexual orientation: does not identify as heterosexual
Geographical: not located in North America, Western Europe and UK, or East Asia
Race: non-White
Person with a disability
In addition, underprivileged researchers and first-time submitters also qualify:
Underprivileged: not affiliated with a funded organization or team whose primary goal is research
First-time submitters: have never submitted to ICLR or similar conferences
Submissions have to include a "URM Statement" section which acknowledges meeting the URM criteria. See the corresponding section in our provided LaTex teamplate for examples. The URM Statement section does not count into the page limit.
The guidelines and restrictions for this Tiny Papers track are:
Write a paper with the same structure as seen in full papers, but with at most 2 pages of main text. References, Appendices, and URM Statement sections do not count towards the page limit. We do not recommend dissecting a regular length paper into a tiny paper by moving the majority of the content into appendices and we emphasize that reviewers will not read past the page limit for this track.
It is recommended to have 1-2 figures, 1 table, and 4-5 sections. But authors are free to use their own structure.
The submission portal, hosted at OpenReivew, opens November 1st, 2023.
All Tiny Papers should comply with the conference paper formatting requirements. We provide a slightly edited LaTeX template for authors to use. Authors should submit their Tiny Paper with the authors names and affiliations anonymised, as in the conference paper track.
We hope that sharing our reviewing instructions will increase transparency and encourage authors to submit their work to this track!
Following ICLR’s previous Tiny Papers criteria, with inclusions specific to our track, we will ask reviewers to evaluate the following:
Does the paper include appropriate discussion of other relevant literature?
Clarity
Are the findings communicated clearly and effectively?
Correctness
Are the claims and conclusions justified by the findings?
Relevance
Does the paper meet at least one of the types of Tiny Papers requested for this workshop, as described above?
Reproducibility
Does the paper describe its methods in such detail that a reader could independently reproduce the findings?
e.g., for empirical findings, are code and/or data provided?
e.g., for theoretical findings, are assumptions stated and proofs provided?
Follows basic requirements
Does the submission adhere to formatting requirements and the page limit?
Does the submission follow the ICLR code of conduct?
Submissions will receive reviews with the following format:
Summary of contributions
A short (2-3 sentence) description of the contributions presented in the submission.
Strengths and weaknesses
A list of strong and weak (if any) aspects of the submission with respect to the reviewing criteria.
Suggested changes
A list of suggested changes (if any) the author(s) should consider making, including justifications for how suggested changes will improve the submission with respect to the reviewing criteria.
Rating recommendation
High Impact (HI): a submission which meets the reviewing criteria and is predicted to make an impact on the field.
High Potential (HP): a submission which meets the reviewing criteria and has potential to make an impact on the field.
Clear, Correct, and Reproducible (CCR): a submission which meets the reviewing criteria.
Great Start (GS): a submission which meets some of the reviewing criteria but has room for improvement.
Needs Clarification (NC): a submission which does not meet the reviewing criteria and needs clarification for its described problem or solution.
If you have any questions regarding your submissions, please do not hesitate to contact us at iclr25haic@gmail.com. We would be delighted to help!