---
pretty_name: Rejected ICLR Papers with Reviews and Code
language:
- en
license: other
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- text-generation
tags:
- openreview
- iclr
- peer-review
- scientific-papers
- code
configs:
- config_name: full
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: dataset.jsonl
- config_name: manifest
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: manifest.jsonl
---

# Rejected ICLR Papers with Reviews and Code

This dataset contains 1,000 rejected ICLR submissions from 2018–2026. Each row
has the OpenReview submission metadata and reviews, the rejected submission PDF,
and a commit-pinned archive of a matched public GitHub repository.

This collection was built directly from OpenReview. It does not use a
third-party ICLR review dataset.

Project repository: [TheAppliedScientist](https://github.com/TheAppliedScientist/TheAppliedScientist)

## Contents

- 1,000 unique rejected OpenReview submissions
- 1,000 unique canonical GitHub repositories
- 3,740 complete official-review records
- 1,000 PDFs downloaded from immutable OpenReview attachment paths
- 1,000 commit-pinned GitHub repository ZIP archives
- SHA-256 checksums for every PDF and repository archive

| ICLR year | Papers |
|---:|---:|
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 56 |
| 2020 | 104 |
| 2021 | 138 |
| 2022 | 137 |
| 2023 | 137 |
| 2024 | 138 |
| 2025 | 136 |
| 2026 | 124 |

## Files

- `dataset.jsonl`: full records, including all review content
- `manifest.jsonl`: lightweight records without the large `reviews` arrays
- `report.json`: final integrity and distribution report
- `papers/<forum>.pdf`: OpenReview submission PDFs
- `repos/<forum>.zip`: commit-pinned GitHub source archives

Paths in each row are relative to the dataset repository.

## Example

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

full = load_dataset(
    "Vidushee/iclr-rejected-papers-with-code-1k",
    "full",
)
manifest = load_dataset(
    "Vidushee/iclr-rejected-papers-with-code-1k",
    "manifest",
)
```

## Licensing and responsible use

This repository is an aggregation of materials with mixed upstream terms. It
does not relicense individual papers, reviews, or code repositories. Paper and
review rights remain governed by OpenReview and the authors' terms; source-code
archives retain the licenses (if any) specified by their upstream repositories;
and the Papers With Code mapping archive is CC BY-SA 4.0. Users are responsible
for checking the applicable upstream license before redistributing or modifying
an individual artifact.

Use the OpenReview forum URL and GitHub repository URL stored in each row when
citing individual works.