[D] ICML 2026: Policy A vs Policy B impact on scores discussion

I am curious whether others observed the same thing. At ICML 2026, papers could be reviewed under two LLM-review policies: a stricter one where reviewers were not supposed to use LLMs, and a permissive one where limited LLM assistance was allowed. I chose Policy A for my paper. My impression, based on a small sample from: our batch, comments I have seen on Reddit and X, and discussions with professors / ACs around me, is that Policy A papers ended up with harsher scores on average than Policy B papers. Of.