Your second-worst review is probably all you need

Two low scores on your ICLR paper is a death sentence. One savage review, on its own, you can survive. Two, and it is over: about a one-in-fifty shot, however enthusiastic your other reviewers are. The score that matters most is not your worst review. It is your second -worst. I know this because ICLR publishes its rejections, and nine years of them tell the same story. Only ICLR shows you the…