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CVPR workshop farming citations - how is this ethical?? [D]

Reddit r/MachineLearning / 3/13/2026

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  • The post alleges that the CVPR 2026 PHAROS-AIF-MIH workshop requires participants to cite 13 papers authored by the organizers that are unrelated to the challenge, and to upload their paper to arXiv to be eligible.
  • The author contends this could be a form of citation farming, potentially involving citations from many authors across numerous papers.
  • The post questions the ethics and fairness of such a requirement and urges the community to flag or address the issue.
  • The author worries this practice could undermine the integrity of CVPR competitions and asks for ideas on how to raise attention or take action.

I cam across the PHAROS-AIF-MIH workshop at CVPR 2026 and one of the condition to participate in their challenge is to cite 13 papers by the challenge organizer and they are not related to the challenge. 13! 13 papers! And that too with multiple authors. And it is mandatory to upload your paper to arxiv to be eligible for this competition.

Citing 13 non-related papers and uploading paper to arxiv. Isn't it clearly citation farming attempt by organizers? And it will be not a small number, it will be close to a thousand.

I'm not sure how things work, but this is not what we all expect from a CVPR competition. Can we do something to flag this? We can't let this slide, can we?

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