<div dir="ltr">I believe AI-mostly-generated papers have a role (e.g., OpenAI recently solved an Erdos conjecture) but they need to be treated separately, and we need to get authors to cooperate. Here's a perhaps crazy<span style="background-color:transparent"> proposal. Conferences should create an AI-mostly track, limit the number of acceptances of such papers (say, 20% of all </span>accepted papers<span style="background-color:transparent">), ask authors to mark their papers as AI mostly, use AI to assist in the review of such papers, and ensure the proceedings show the paper as mostly AI (e.g., must add "(AI paper)" to the title).</span><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM André Brinkmann via Hotstorage-sc <<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu">hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>regarding your point 2), you raise a very important point, and I think we have all asked ourselves this question. After reviewing far too many AI-generated papers this year, my own answer is no. I do not believe such papers benefit a conference, because
in many cases they have been written without being properly thought through. The main value of a conference, discussing with the authors and gaining insights beyond what the paper offers, is then most likely lost.</div>
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<div>The difficulty, of course, is that distinguishing AI-generated content from genuine research has become nearly impossible. So I cannot offer a real answer. What I can say is that when one set of authors submits ten papers including similar techniques,
I am rather pessimistic that they are really interested in research, and I doubt I would get much out of a discussion with them.</div>
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<div>I look forward to discussing this with many of you in Prague, and I hope you have more optimistic answers than I do.</div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Do the 10 papers have evaluation section? Do the reviewers/chairs think that the evaluation sections – i.e., experimental results – were synthesized w/ AI (no actual experiments were run)?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">One important question, IMHO, is how we view the following case. A paper was *largely* generated with AI (far beyond polishing the text or writing some sub sections). The system prototype was actually built (w/ AI or not) and
experiments were run for evaluation (AI took those results in and generated eval section). The authors did the due diligence reviewing and revising the paper before submission. The paper turned out to satisfy all requirements of a solid HotStorage paper (novel,
clear, topic appropriate, evaluation shows strong impact, etc.). Are we fine with accepting such paper?<br>
I think the answer is yes. (Don’t know if we want to add AI as co-author – that’s what many code commits have nowadays<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😉</span><span style="font-size:12pt">)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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Kannan via Hotstorage-sc<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, July 15, 2026 8:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span>Gala Yadgar <<a href="mailto:gala@cs.technion.ac.il" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">gala@cs.technion.ac.il</a>>; Ali Anwar <<a href="mailto:aanwar@umn.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">aanwar@umn.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span> </span>Andre Brinkmann <<a href="mailto:andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de</a>>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org</a><br>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">Hi all, I agree on previous comments and having some bounds on the number of papers per author, and maybe this could be mentioned in the future
CFPs. Besides higher-level policies, some thoughts: Given that there is no clear consensus across<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I agree on previous comments and having some bounds on the number of papers per author, and maybe this could be mentioned in the future CFPs. Besides higher-level
policies, some thoughts:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Given that there is no clear consensus across most of the conferences on what form of AI use is acceptable or not, we could come up with more precise description
(and examples) for HS paper during one of the SC meetings.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Regarding deciding on the 10 papers, unless all the 10 papers are solving the same problem or proposing similar design, a few questions we could ask are
whether each of the submissions (1) advances storage research and systems research in general, (2) solves or proposes to solve a challenging and an important problem, and (3) helps realize the goals of the "hot" storage workshop and only accept papers that
meet the bar. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc-bounces@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc-bounces@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>> on behalf of Ali Anwar via Hotstorage-sc <<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, July 15, 2026 10:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span>Gala Yadgar <<a href="mailto:gala@cs.technion.ac.il" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">gala@cs.technion.ac.il</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span> </span>Andre Brinkmann <<a href="mailto:andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de</a>>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org</a><span> </span><<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org</a>><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">I agree that if the submissions are substantially similar in content, we should reject all of them, whether on the basis of self-plagiarism or another appropriate policy ground.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">However, if the submissions are meaningfully different, then the approach Erez suggested earlier makes more sense. Even in that case, I support limiting the number of submissions per author. OSDI has also introduced a submission
limit this year. Such a rule would discourage authors from attempting this type of exploit in the future.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Reviewing workloads have increased significantly, and we should not ask reviewers to evaluate multiple AI-generated papers that differ only in minor ways. More importantly, we should develop a systematic method for identifying
related cohorts of submissions, either with support from the submission platform or through another tool. This would allow us to apply the same policy consistently and fairly to everyone.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Submitting the same (or very similar) work as 10 different papers (or even two, for that matter) is abusing the system. AI makes it easier but is not necessarily
the major problem in this case. I hope the PC can find an assertive way to send the message that this is unacceptable.<span> </span></span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">If the scenario is as extreme as I understand it, then I think that accepting even one of those papers is problematic, because it would mean that the trick
worked and that there was no penalty for the abuse.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, July 15, 2026 13:35<br>
<b>To:</b><span> </span>Angela Demke Brown <<a href="mailto:demke@cs.toronto.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">demke@cs.toronto.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b><span> </span>Andre Brinkmann <<a href="mailto:andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">andre.brinkmann@uni-saarland.de</a>>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@hotstorage.org</a><br>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Reviewing is not much fun at the moment, and I assume that nearly any submitted paper uses some kind of AI support ... The difference here, from my perspective, is that the authors have
submitted so many papers with similar techniques. They are therefore speculating that, statistically, some of these papers will be accepted, which is an unfair advantage compared to other authors. I would therefore desk reject for "self-plagiarism".<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">We ran into something similar with SOSP. In our case it was 9 papers from one company/pair of authors and 6 papers from another company and pair of authors, which on investigation appeared
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Given the lack of policy in the CFP on generative AI use, and the ACM authorship policies, we felt we couldn't do anything other than (a) ask the authors to explain their use of AI and
(b) let the papers be rejected on the basis of their quality. The authors in our case claimed AI use only to polish their writing, which is generally allowed.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I have no solutions to offer to HotStorage, unfortunately. <u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">All the best, <u></u><u></u></div>
<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Angela <u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">On Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 7:50<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>p.m. Ashvin Goel via Hotstorage-sc <<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">The 10 papers were submitted by the same set of authors.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 8:28<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>PM Erez Zadok <<a href="mailto:ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>>
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That is a hotly debated topic nowadays among ACM EiCs and multiple conferences. We just had heated debates about this on the ACM ATC SC too. Different people are trying different things to varying degrees of success, from requiring disclosure by authors,
to automated tools, etc. No perfect solutions. ACM seems to have given up on getting an AI-detection tools but are looking into cite-checking tools.<br>
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ACM recently loosened their AI policy: they no longer prohibit it outright but ask authors to disclose AI use if wanted, then ask the reviewers to decide what, if, and how much AI use is ok or not ok. IOW, ACM now shifted the burden onto reviewers. Some are
ok with this change, others less so.<br>
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One problem with any AI detectors is that actual text can easily be flagged as AI-generated even if the authors use AI to spell check, polish the text, or ask AI to shrink the text size: these are considered valid uses of AI that shouldn’t result in rejection.<br>
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That said, the easiest way to catch bad AI use is via citation checks. At TOS, we now validate each citation of a submission before sending it off to be reviewed. Even with search tools, that’s more work but we have no choice: recently we caught several papers
with bad/hallucinated cites deep into the reviewing process (thus wasting reviewers’ precious time). Any paper with obviously bad/hallucinated cites gets desk-rejected, but we also email the authors to see if they can explain themselves first.<br>
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So my suggestions are:<br>
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1. Papers with obviously large portions of AI text should be rejected with minimal reviews. If authors didn’t spend any significant effort to develop the paper, then our reviewers shouldn’t waste their time either. “You get what you paid for” principle.<br>
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2. Papers with too many hallucinated cites should be rejected right away without review. 1-2 cites max may be considered a silly mistake that students sometimes make (I’d ask the authors), but any more should be rejected.<br>
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3. I don’t think we should limit the number of submissions per author. While rare, it’s possible to see 2-3 papers submitted by a subset of the same authors. Now, when you say “a set of authors had submitted 10 papers,” *how many* are in the set?! Is it
the same exact authors who submitted 10 separate papers?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Erez.<br>
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> On Jul 14, 2026, at 2:18<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>PM, Ashvin Goel via Hotstorage-sc <<a href="mailto:hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">hotstorage-sc@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</a>>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> The HS '26 PC chairs (Young-ri and Bryan) are asking for input from us regarding a set of paper submissions that have likely been AI generated. Two reviewers expressed concerns to the chairs. They found several papers with similar concepts applied to different
areas, following a similar structure, language (including hard to understand or strange words) and flaws. The chairs found that a set of authors had submitted 10 papers (13% of the 79 submissions). The reviewers are currently leaning negative on several of
these papers, pointing out that the papers are difficult to understand, describe concepts vaguely, and use unfamiliar language. The positive-leaning papers will be discussed at the PC meeting.<br>
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> The chairs are looking for input about the best course of action to handle this case of suspected AI-generated papers. On the one hand, ACM allows the use of undisclosed AI. Thus, rejections should be grounded on the paper's technical contribution and novelty,
rather than AI use, which is hard to detect accurately using current AI detection tools. On the other hand, such AI-generated papers will overwhelm reviewers in the future.<br>
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> Let me know if you have any specific suggestions regarding handling the current case with the 10 submissions. More broadly, we should discuss if HS should put in place any policies for AI generated papers. Here are some examples I have seen:<br>
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> 1. Using multiple detectors and letting reviewers know so they can decide<br>
> 2. Desk rejecting papers with hallucinated references<br>
> 3. Limiting number of submissions by authors<br>
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> Thanks<br>
> Ashvin<br>
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