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PaperScorer: How Predictable Is Paper Acceptance?
October 2026  ·  NeurIPS 2026

How much of a peer-review decision can be predicted from the paper alone? PaperScorer reads a fully anonymized paper as extracted text or as page screenshots and predicts its accept or reject decision. Vision models are the most predictive, and their confidence is calibrated.

Tinker API Implementation on TPUs, 30B models and up to 20k context
August 2026

Building a reinforcement-learning stack for large language models on TPU v5p: SkyRL, MaxText, tunix, vLLM, and the memory engineering behind going from 512 to 22,528 tokens.


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