ICLR27 Reviewer Flags Paper as Too Similar to Prior Version

An author submitted an improved and renamed version of a paper previously published in a workshop/arXiv to ICLR, but a reviewer noted close similarity to the old version and asked for comparison. The author seeks to argue they are the same work without breaking anonymity.

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