arXiv Computation and Language By Yaochen Wang, Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Haomin Zhuang, Xinyue Zeng, Han Chen, Kwesi Adu Cobbina, Dang Nguyen, Dianqi Li, Dawei Zhou, Tianyi Zhou

Can AI Reviewers See Your Efforts to Improve Your Paper? A Large-Scale Study of Paper Revision Trajectories

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The study examines whether AI reviewers’ scores reflect authors’ revisions by analyzing 6,959 paper trajectories from five AI conferences. Major revisions that add empirical evidence and improve framing are identified, yet most reviewers do not change scores for these improvements and agreement on score direction is weak. Reviewer-specific associations exist, but overall predictive power is limited, and brief negative comments can negate any scoring gains from substantive revisions.

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