Reddit asks: publication bar for top US ML PhD programs

A Reddit user says top ML PhD programs appear to expect about four first-author papers at venues like NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR, and asks people at top-10 US schools whether this is accurate and what the typical graduation bar is.

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