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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TMLR now has a shiny new blog! By popular demand, the days of Medium are over. All the old posts are already ported, please check it out (and its beautiful colour scheme). Thanks to Managing Editor @paulvicol.bsky.social for setting it up! blog.tmlr.org

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TMLR Blog

News, announcements, and editorial notes from the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

TMLR has refocused its acceptance criteria to place more emphasis on clear writing. Read more in this blog post: medium.com/@TmlrOrg/inc...

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Increasing Emphasis on Clear Writing in Acceptance Criteria

Three things are true today:

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Starting September 1, 2026, TMLR will no longer be considering survey papers for review. This is in part due to limited reviewer resources and significant required labour for reviewing surveys, as well as the evolving role of surveys in our field.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Some of the TMLR Editors in Chief are doing a meet-and-greet tomorrow at #ICML2026! July 7 at 11 AM in The Platz Come and: - discuss new policies (submission quotas, AI reviewer) - pick up stickers if you're an AE, expert reviewer, etc. - just hang out!

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

TMLR will be experimenting with an AI reviewer, solely to judge submissions against the soundness criterion ("are the claims supported by accurate, clear, and convincing evidence?"). More details in the following blog post. medium.com/p/4405d7813cc8

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We're pleased to announce our newest Editor-in-Chief, Yoshitomo Matsubara (@yoshitomo-matsubara.net)! He started his term July 1, 2026. He has long been one of our most committed and thoughtful Action Editors, and we know he'll do a great job as a leader of the journal.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

TMLR has been facing an significant uptick in the number of submissions since the start of 2026. This is placing an extreme burden on our amazing team of reviewers & action editors. To ease this burden, TMLR will be implementing submission quotas, effective July 1. 1/n medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ann...

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Paul Vicol @paulvicol.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🎨 Introducing the TMLR Beyond PDF Editor, a web-based editor for creating Beyond PDF submissions! 🚀 Zero setup + live preview + download & import. 🤝 Compatible with local compilation. 🎉 Thanks to Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Wanna earn yourself one of these bad boys? Sign up to be an Action Editor for TMLR! We are also looking for reviewers as well. Please fill out one of the following forms: - Volunteer to action editor: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - Volunteer to review: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

TMLR's 2025 annual report! The word of the year is growth: whether it's our number of submissions, published papers, or reviewers, pretty much everything has increased ~50%. EXCEPT: our review period, which is still shorter than NeurICMLR (91 vs 126 days) Read on for more! 1/n

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

With a new year comes a new Editor-in-Chief! Please give a warm welcome to Laurent Charlin (HEC Montréal and Mila)! He rounds out the team with Gautam Kamath, Naila Murray, and Nihar Shah to help lead TMLR through 2026.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The end of 2025 marks the end of Hugo Larochelle's term as (Founding co-) Editor-in-chief of TMLR. It is an understatement to say that he was indispensable to making TMLR what it is today. Huge thanks to Hugo for everything he's done!

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The location for the meet and greet has been decided! Meet @gautamkamath.com and Nihar from 9:30 to 10:30 AM on Thursday Dec 4 and Friday Dec 5 in Sails Pavilion, most likely at the edge near Ballroom 20.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🥁 Announcing the 2025 TMLR Outstanding Certification! The committee decided upon 1 recipient and 3 finalists. Read on to learn more! Committee: Pablo Samuel Castro, Pin-Yu Chen, Vincent Dumoulin, Amir massoud Farahmand, Andreas Kirsch, Jasper Lee, Jeffrey Pennington, Colin Raffel, Chang Xu 1/n

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Will you be at #NeurIPS2025? Come talk TMLR and collect swag! EiCs Gautam Kamath (@gautamkamath.com) and Nihar Shah will be there -- if you are an AE or an Expert Reviewer, or have a Featured or Outstanding Certification, you can get a free TMLR laptop sticker! Locations ⬇️

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Paul Vicol @paulvicol.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚀 Introducing TMLR Beyond PDF! 🎬 This is a new, HTML-based submission format for TMLR, that supports interactive figures and videos, along with the usual LaTeX and images. 🎉 Thanks to TMLR Editors in Chief: Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up! Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Following the success of last year's initiative, RL Conference 2025 (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is again having a Journal to Conference track! Accepted TMLR within scope are invited to submit for consideration by May 1! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

New year, new editor-in-chief: we are excited to welcome Nihar B. Shah to the editors-in-chief of TMLR! We bade farewell to founding EiC Kyunghyun Cho (@kyunghyuncho.bsky.social), who has done immense sevice by co-founding and helping TMLR thrive the last several years.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🎉Announcing... the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Certifications! (aka, our "best paper" awards!) Are you bursting with anticipation to see what they are? Check out this blog post, and read down-thread!! 🎉🧵👇 1/n medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ann...

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Announcing the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Certification

By the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Paper Committee: Michael Bowling, Brian Kingsbury, Andreas Kirsch, Yingzhen Li, and Eleni Triantafillou

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