[D] Competitiveness of CS PhD in ML for top programs (24 Fall)

I recently read a post somewhere else claiming that CS PhD admissions in the field of ML for top programs at top institutions have become extremely competitive this year. According to the post, for top 20 universities in the US, only people with at least **three** first-authored papers at ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR stand a chance, and you'll need more than three papers if your paper is not published at these three venues. They also claim that for top 50 universities you'll need …

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