--- language: - en task_categories: - text-classification - text-generation - other tags: - scientific-papers - peer-review - grobid - tei-xml - bibtex - openreview - machine-learning - croissant pretty_name: "PRISM: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Peer Reviewers" license: other --- # PRISM: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Peer Reviewers A large-scale benchmark built on **47,214 research papers** from five top machine learning conferences, including full text, peer reviews, editorial decisions, GROBID-parsed metadata, and bibliographic references. PRISM evaluates LLM-based peer reviewers across five dimensions — **Validity**, **Helpfulness**, **Comprehensiveness**, **Specificity**, and **Faithfulness** — and supports tasks including **review generation**, **meta-review generation**, **acceptance prediction**, and **review score prediction**. --- ## Dataset Summary | Property | Value | |---|---| | **Total papers** | 47,214 | | **Total reviews** | 186,090 | | **Conferences** | ICLR 2024, ICLR 2025, ICLR 2026, ICML 2025, NeurIPS 2025 | | **Source** | OpenReview (ICLR) + Conference proceedings (ICML, NeurIPS) | | **Tabular format** | `papers.parquet` (1.8 GB, zstd compression) | | **File-based format** | Directory structure per venue (zip archives) | --- ## Venue Statistics ### Paper Counts & Acceptance Rates | Venue | Papers | Reviews | Reviews/Paper | Accepted | Rejected | Pending | Accept Rate | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | **ICLR 2024** | 7,262 | 28,028 | 3.9 | 2,261 | 3,519 | 1,482 | 39.1% | | **ICLR 2025** | 11,519 | 46,744 | 4.1 | 3,708 | 5,018 | 2,793 | 42.5% | | **ICLR 2026** | 19,471 | 75,847 | 3.9 | 5,358 | 8,814 | 5,299 | 37.8% | | **ICML 2025** | 3,422 | 13,102 | 3.8 | 3,260 | 162 | 0 | 95.3% | | **NeurIPS 2025** | 5,540 | 22,369 | 4.0 | 5,286 | 254 | 0 | 95.4% | | **Total** | **47,214** | **186,090** | **3.9** | **19,873** | **17,767** | **9,574** | — | > *Accept Rate is calculated as `accepted / (accepted + rejected)`, excluding Pending papers (which have reviews but no final decision).* > **Important — Data Collection Bias:** > > **ICLR data** (2024, 2025, 2026) was collected from **OpenReview** and includes **both accepted and rejected** submissions, providing a representative sample of the full review process. > > **ICML 2025 and NeurIPS 2025** data was collected from **conference proceedings / accepted paper lists**, and therefore **heavily skews toward accepted papers**. The vast majority of rejected submissions are **not included**: > > | Venue | Real Submissions | Real Accepted | Real Rate | In Dataset | Dataset Rate | > |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| > | NeurIPS 2025 | ~21,575 | ~5,290 | 24.5% | 5,540 | 95.4% | > | ICML 2025 | ~12,107 | ~3,260 | 26.9% | 3,422 | 95.3% | > > The ~254 "rejected" papers in NeurIPS 2025 and ~162 in ICML 2025 likely represent workshop papers, withdrawn submissions, or scraping artifacts — **not** the main-track rejected papers. > > **Implication:** Any analysis of review quality, acceptance prediction, or reviewer behavior should **only use ICLR data** (which has balanced accept/reject coverage). NeurIPS and ICML data are suitable only for studying **accepted paper characteristics** and **bibliographic analysis**. ### Decision Distribution (ICLR Only — Representative Sample) > The following distribution reflects **ICLR data only** (2024–2026), which is the only venue with balanced accept/reject coverage. NeurIPS 2025 and ICML 2025 are excluded from this table as their data is heavily biased toward accepted papers. > > "Pending" papers have initial reviews but no final decision (meta-review is "TBD") — they were scraped before decisions were announced and were never updated. Acceptance rates below are calculated excluding Pending papers. | Decision | Papers | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Reject | 17,351 | 45.8% | | Pending | 9,574 | 25.3% | | Accept (poster) | 7,468 | 19.7% | | Accept (spotlight) | 747 | 2.0% | | Accept (oral) | 329 | 0.9% | | Conditional Accept | 11 | <0.1% | **ICML 2025 and NeurIPS 2025** (not representative): Accept 8,546 / Reject 416 — these numbers reflect only the small fraction of rejected papers that appeared in the proceedings scrape, not the full submission pool. ### Review Rating Distributions **ICLR 2025** (n = 46,744 reviews, mean = 5.15, scale 1–10): | Score | Count | Share | |---:|---:|---:| | 1 | 1,029 | 2.2% | | 3 | 11,535 | 24.7% | | 5 | 13,101 | 28.0% | | 6 | 14,693 | 31.4% | | 8 | 6,214 | 13.3% | | 10 | 172 | 0.4% | **ICLR 2026** (n = 75,847 reviews, mean = 4.21, scale 0–10): | Score | Count | Share | |---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 1,319 | 1.7% | | 2 | 19,864 | 26.2% | | 4 | 29,759 | 39.2% | | 6 | 19,707 | 26.0% | | 8 | 5,010 | 6.6% | | 10 | 188 | 0.2% | **NeurIPS 2025** (n = 22,369 reviews, mean = 4.31, scale 1–6): | Score | Count | Share | |---:|---:|---:| | 1 | 30 | 0.1% | | 2 | 423 | 1.9% | | 3 | 1,730 | 7.7% | | 4 | 11,077 | 49.5% | | 5 | 8,728 | 39.0% | | 6 | 381 | 1.7% | > **Note:** NeurIPS 2025 reviews are **biased toward accepted papers** (95.4% of the dataset). The distribution above reflects reviewer behavior on accepted papers only and is **not representative** of reviews on rejected submissions. > > **Note:** ICLR 2024 uses text-based rating fields (`Soundness`, `Presentation`, `Contribution` on a poor/fair/good/excellent scale) with no numeric `Rating` field, so aggregate rating statistics are not available. ICML 2025 uses `Overall Recommendation` instead of numeric ratings. --- ## Dataset Structure ### Directory Layout ``` paper_data/ ├── papers.parquet # Combined tabular dataset (all venues) ├── ICLR_2024/ │ ├── json/ # Review data (JSON) │ ├── txt/ # Full text (extracted) │ ├── grobid_metadata/ # GROBID metadata (JSON) │ ├── grobid_bib/ # GROBID bibliography (JSON + BibTeX) │ ├── grobid_tei/ # GROBID TEI XML │ ├── grobid_fulltext/ # GROBID full text extraction │ ├── pdf/ # Original PDFs │ ├── review_json/ # Raw review JSON (ICLR 2024 only) │ ├── review_raw_txt/ # Raw review text (ICLR 2024 only) │ ├── paper_nougat_mmd/ # Nougat Mathpix Markdown (ICLR 2024 only) │ └── scraping_summary.json # Scraping metadata ├── ICLR_2025/ │ ├── json/ │ ├── txt/ │ ├── grobid_metadata/ │ ├── grobid_bib/ │ ├── grobid_tei/ │ ├── grobid_fulltext/ │ ├── pdf/ │ └── scraping_summary.json ├── ICLR_2026/ │ └── ... (same structure as ICLR 2025) ├── ICML_2025/ │ └── ... ├── NeurIPS_2025/ │ └── ... └── ICLR_2024.zip # Zip archives for distribution ICLR_2025.zip ICLR_2026.zip ICML_2025.zip NeurIPS_2025.zip ``` ### Folder Descriptions | Folder | Description | File Format | File Count (total) | |---|---|---|---:| | `json/` | Peer reviews, decisions, meta-reviews, and structured review data (from OpenReview for ICLR; from proceedings for ICML/NeurIPS) | `.json` | 47,215 | | `txt/` | Extracted full text of papers (plain text, from PDF conversion) | `.txt` | 47,215 | | `grobid_metadata/` | GROBID-parsed metadata: title, authors, abstract, keywords, date | `.grobid.json` | 47,099 | | `grobid_bib/` | GROBID-parsed bibliography: structured references (JSON) and BibTeX | `.grobid.json` + `.grobid.bib` | 94,103 | | `grobid_tei/` | Full GROBID TEI XML output: structured document with sections, figures, tables, equations | `.grobid.tei.xml` | 47,155 | | `grobid_fulltext/` | GROBID-extracted full text (cleaner than `txt/`, preserves section structure) | `.grobid.txt` | 47,084 | ### File Sizes per Folder | Folder | ICLR 2024 | ICLR 2025 | ICLR 2026 | ICML 2025 | NeurIPS 2025 | **Total** | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | `json/` | 127 MB | 188 MB | 341 MB | 68 MB | 94 MB | **818 MB** | | `txt/` | 118 MB | 192 MB | 317 MB | 64 MB | 86 MB | **777 MB** | | `grobid_metadata/` | 29 MB | 46 MB | 77 MB | 14 MB | 22 MB | **188 MB** | | `grobid_bib/` | 360 MB | 630 MB | 1.1 GB | 175 MB | 326 MB | **2.6 GB** | | `grobid_tei/` | 835 MB | 1.5 GB | 2.5 GB | 471 MB | 902 MB | **6.2 GB** | | `grobid_fulltext/` | 350 MB | 599 MB | 1.1 GB | 200 MB | 410 MB | **2.7 GB** | --- ## Parquet Dataset (`papers.parquet`) All structured data across five venues is consolidated into a single **Apache Parquet** file with **zstd** compression. | Property | Value | |---|---| | File | `papers.parquet` | | Size | **1.8 GB** (compressed from 12.2 GB of source text) | | Compression ratio | **6.8×** | | Rows | 47,214 | | Columns | 31 | | Engine | PyArrow | | Compression | zstd | ### Schema | Column | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `paper_id` | string | OpenReview paper ID (e.g., `00ezkB2iZf`) | | `venue` | string | Conference venue (`ICLR_2024`, `ICLR_2025`, `ICLR_2026`, `ICML_2025`, `NeurIPS_2025`) | | `decision` | string | Editorial decision (`Accept (poster)`, `Reject`, `Pending`, etc.). **Note:** ICML/NeurIPS are mostly `Accept` variants — see [data collection bias](#venue-statistics). | | `meta_review` | string | Meta-review text from the area chair | | `num_reviews` | int64 | Number of peer reviews | | `rating_avg` | float64 | Average reviewer rating (where available) | | `rating_min` | int64 | Minimum reviewer rating | | `rating_max` | int64 | Maximum reviewer rating | | `confidence_avg` | float64 | Average reviewer confidence | | `soundness_avg` | float64 | Average soundness score | | `presentation_avg` | float64 | Average presentation score | | `contribution_avg` | float64 | Average contribution score | | `reviews_json` | string | Full reviews as JSON string (all review fields) | | `keywords` | string | Paper keywords (JSON array) | | `primary_area` | string | Primary subject area | | `subject_areas` | string | Subject areas (JSON array) | | `review_title` | string | Paper title from submission (available for all ICLR; may be empty for ICML/NeurIPS) | | `review_abstract` | string | Abstract from submission (available for all ICLR; may be empty for ICML/NeurIPS) | | `grobid_title` | string | Title extracted by GROBID | | `grobid_abstract` | string | Abstract extracted by GROBID | | `grobid_authors` | string | Authors extracted by GROBID (JSON array) | | `grobid_keywords` | string | Keywords extracted by GROBID (JSON array) | | `grobid_date` | string | Publication/acceptance date | | `full_text` | string | Full paper text (from `txt/` folder) | | `grobid_fulltext` | string | GROBID-extracted full text (from `grobid_fulltext/`) | | `bibliography_json` | string | Bibliography as structured JSON | | `bibliography_bib` | string | Bibliography in BibTeX format | | `pdf_path` | string | Relative path to the original PDF file | | `stat_num_reviews` | int64 | Number of reviews (from statistics field) | | `stat_has_meta_review` | bool | Whether meta-review exists | | `stat_has_decision` | bool | Whether decision exists | ### Usage ```python import pandas as pd # Load the full dataset df = pd.read_parquet("papers.parquet") # Filter by venue iclr2025 = df[df["venue"] == "ICLR_2025"] # Find top-rated accepted papers accepted = df[df["decision"].str.contains("Accept", na=False)] top = accepted.nlargest(10, "rating_avg")[ ["paper_id", "venue", "grobid_title", "rating_avg", "decision"] ] # Full-text search rl_papers = df[df["full_text"].str.contains("reinforcement learning", case=False, na=False)] # Parse structured reviews import json paper = df.iloc[0] reviews = json.loads(paper["reviews_json"]) for r in reviews: print(f"Rating: {r.get('Rating')}, Summary: {r.get('Summary')[:100]}...") ``` --- ## Zip Archives (File-Based Format) For direct access to individual files (TEI XML, BibTeX, full text), download the zip archives: | Archive | Papers | Size (no PDFs) | |---|---:|---:| | `ICLR_2024.zip` | 7,262 | ~2.2 GB | | `ICLR_2025.zip` | 11,519 | ~3.1 GB | | `ICLR_2026.zip` | 19,471 | ~5.4 GB | | `ICML_2025.zip` | 3,422 | ~990 MB | | `NeurIPS_2025.zip` | 5,540 | ~1.8 GB | ### About PDFs Original PDFs total **~300 GB** across all venues and are **not included** in the Hugging Face upload due to their size. If you need access to the PDF files, please contact the authors directly and we can share them separately. The `pdf_path` column in `papers.parquet` references the original PDF location for each paper, so you can match papers to PDFs once obtained. ### Download from Hugging Face Hub ```python from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download local_dir = snapshot_download(repo_id="anoyresearcher/prism_paper_data", repo_type="dataset") print(local_dir) ``` Then unzip the archives you need: ```bash unzip -q ICLR_2025.zip -d ./extracted/ ``` --- ## File Format Details ### `json/` — Review Data Each JSON file contains the complete peer review record for one paper: ```json { "paper_id": "00ezkB2iZf", "Decision": "Reject", "Meta review": { "Metareview": "In this paper, the authors propose...", "Justification For Why Not Higher Score": "...", "Justification For Why Not Lower Score": "..." }, "reviews": [ { "Review ID": "TeO25XUwES", "Rating": "3", "Confidence": "4", "Summary": "...", "Soundness": "2", "Presentation": "2", "Contribution": "2", "Strengths": "...", "Weaknesses": "...", "Questions": "...", "Limitations": "..." } ], "keywords": ["robustness", "medical QA"], "primary_area": "Safety in Machine Learning", "subject_areas": [...], "title": "...", "abstract": "...", "statistics": { "num_reviews": 4, "has_meta_review": true, "has_decision": true } } ``` > **Note:** Review field names and rating scales differ between venues. ICLR 2025/2026 use numeric ratings (1–10 or 0–10); ICLR 2024 uses text-based fields (Soundness/Presentation/Contribution: poor/fair/good/excellent) with an empty `Rating` field; ICML 2025 uses `Overall Recommendation`; NeurIPS uses 1–6 scale. ### `grobid_metadata/` — Structured Metadata ```json { "title": "MEDFUZZ: EXPLORING THE ROBUSTNESS OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS...", "authors": ["Author A", "Author B"], "abstract": "Large language models (LLM) have achieved...", "keywords": [], "date": "" } ``` ### `grobid_bib/` — Bibliography Two files per paper: - **`.grobid.json`**: Structured JSON array of references - **`.grobid.bib`**: BibTeX format ```json [ { "title": "Openbiollms: Advancing open-source large language models...", "authors": ["Author A", "Author B"], "year": "2024", "venue": "" } ] ``` ### `grobid_tei/` — TEI XML Full GROBID output in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML format containing: - Document structure (sections, paragraphs) - Title, authors, abstract - References and citations - Figures, tables, equations (when parseable) ```xml MEDFUZZ: ... ...
INTRODUCTION

Cutting-edge large language models...

...
``` ### `txt/` and `grobid_fulltext/` — Full Text Both contain the full paper text as plain text: - **`txt/`**: Extracted from PDF (may contain OCR artifacts) - **`grobid_fulltext/`**: Extracted by GROBID (typically cleaner, preserves section boundaries) ## File Counts per Folder | Folder | ICLR 2024 | ICLR 2025 | ICLR 2026 | ICML 2025 | NeurIPS 2025 | |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:| | `json/` | 7,262 | 11,520 | 19,471 | 3,422 | 5,540 | | `txt/` | 7,262 | 11,520 | 19,471 | 3,422 | 5,540 | | `grobid_metadata/` | 7,286 | 11,475 | 19,421 | 3,385 | 5,532 | | `grobid_bib/` | 14,546 | 22,910 | 38,818 | 6,764 | 11,064 | | `grobid_tei/` | 7,286 | 11,491 | 19,421 | 3,422 | 5,535 | | `grobid_fulltext/` | 7,282 | 11,465 | 19,420 | 3,385 | 5,532 | > **Note:** `grobid_bib/` has ~2× the file count because each paper produces both `.grobid.json` and `.grobid.bib` files. --- ## Data Collection & Processing Pipeline ### Step 1 — Crawl from OpenReview / Conference Pages Paper metadata, reviews, decisions, and PDF links are scraped from [OpenReview](https://openreview.net) for ICLR venues, and from conference proceedings pages for ICML and NeurIPS. > **Scraping timeline:** For ICLR venues, data was scraped **during the review period** — after initial peer reviews were posted but before all meta-reviews and final decisions were announced. As a result, ~20–27% of ICLR papers have "Pending" as the decision (meta-review shows "TBD"). These papers still have complete reviews and full text; only the final decision and meta-review are missing. **Outputs per paper:** - `json/.json` — Structured review data: decision, meta-review, individual reviews (ratings, confidence, strengths, weaknesses, questions) - `txt/.txt` — Full paper text extracted from the PDF - `pdf/.pdf` — Original paper PDF - `scraping_summary.json` — List of all processed paper IDs for the venue ### Step 2 — Process PDFs with GROBID PDFs are processed through [GROBID](https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid) (a machine-learning-based document parser) to extract structured information from the papers. **Outputs per paper:** - `grobid_metadata/.grobid.json` — Title, authors, abstract, keywords, date - `grobid_bib/.grobid.json` — Bibliography as structured JSON array - `grobid_bib/.grobid.bib` — Bibliography in BibTeX format - `grobid_tei/.grobid.tei.xml` — Full document in TEI XML (sections, figures, tables, equations) - `grobid_fulltext/.grobid.txt` — Clean full-text extraction with section boundaries ### Step 3 — Consolidate to Parquet All structured data is merged into a single `papers.parquet` file (1.8 GB) using `convert_to_parquet.py`. This combines review metadata, GROBID outputs, and full text into one queryable table. ``` OpenReview / Conference Pages │ ▼ ┌─────────────┐ │ json/ │ Reviews, decisions, meta-reviews │ txt/ │ Full paper text │ pdf/ │ Original PDFs (not uploaded) └──────┬──────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────┐ │ GROBID │ PDF parsing engine └──────┬──────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────┐ │ grobid_metadata/ │ Title, authors, abstract │ grobid_bib/ │ Structured references │ grobid_tei/ │ Full TEI XML │ grobid_fulltext/ │ Clean text extraction └──────┬──────────┘ │ ▼ ┌──────────────┐ │ papers.parquet│ All venues merged (1.8 GB) └──────────────┘ ``` ### Venue Sources | Venue | Source | Coverage | |---|---|---| | **ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026** | [OpenReview](https://openreview.net) | ✅ All submissions (accepted + rejected + pending) | | **ICML 2025** | Conference proceedings page | Accepted papers only (~26.9% of submissions) | | **NeurIPS 2025** | Conference proceedings page | Accepted papers only (~24.5% of submissions) | ### `scraping_summary.json` Each venue folder contains a scraping summary with the list of collected paper IDs: ```json { "total_processed": 11672, "total_failed": 0, "paper_ids": ["zz9jAssrwL", "zxg6601zoc", ...] } ``` > **Note:** For ICLR venues, `paper_ids` includes all submissions (accepted + rejected + pending). For ICML and NeurIPS, `paper_ids` primarily contains accepted papers from the conference proceedings. --- ## Potential Use Cases > **Venue suitability varies by task.** See the [Data Collection Bias](#venue-statistics) section for details. | Task | Suitable Venues | Reason | |---|---|---| | **Acceptance/Rejection Prediction** | ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026 only | Balanced accept/reject coverage required | | **Peer Review Bias Analysis** | ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026 only | Need both accepted and rejected review data | | **Reviewer Behavior Analysis** | ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026 only | Need reviews for both accepted and rejected papers | | **Accepted Paper Characteristics** | All venues | Topic modeling, method trends, citation patterns | | **Citation Network Analysis** | All venues | Bibliography data available for all papers | | **NLP for Scientific Text** | All venues | Full text available for all papers | | **Argument Mining** | ICLR 2024, 2025, 2026 only | Need reviews for both accepted and rejected papers | | **Meta-Science / Research Trends** | All venues | Study topics, methods, impact across conferences | ### Detailed Use Cases - **Peer Review Analysis** *(ICLR only)*: Predict review scores, detect bias, analyze reviewer behavior across accept/reject decisions - **Paper Quality Prediction** *(ICLR only)*: Predict acceptance decisions from paper text and review scores - **Citation Network Analysis** *(All venues)*: Build citation graphs from bibliography data - **Meta-Science** *(All venues)*: Study trends in ML research, topic modeling, research impact - **NLP for Scientific Text** *(All venues)*: Train/evaluate models on scientific document understanding - **Argument Mining** *(ICLR only)*: Extract strengths, weaknesses, and arguments from reviews - **Decision Prediction** *(ICLR only)*: Binary/multi-class classification of paper acceptance --- ## Known Limitations - **GROBID parsing errors**: Some papers have incomplete or malformed GROBID output depending on PDF formatting - **Rating scale differences**: ICLR 2025/2026 use numeric ratings (1–10 or 0–10), NeurIPS uses 1–6 scale, ICLR 2024 uses text-based fields (Soundness/Presentation/Contribution: poor/fair/good/excellent), and ICML 2025 uses `Overall Recommendation`. Cross-venue rating comparisons are not meaningful. - **Incomplete coverage**: Not all papers have PDFs (NeurIPS 2025 PDFs not available); some GROBID outputs are missing - **"Pending" decisions (ICLR 2024–2026)**: ~20–27% of ICLR papers show "Pending" as the decision, with meta-review text set to "TBD". This is because the data was scraped **during the review period** — after initial peer reviews were posted, but before the area chairs wrote meta-reviews and the final decisions were announced. These papers have complete reviews but no final decision. This affects ~1,482 ICLR 2024 papers, ~2,793 ICLR 2025 papers, and ~5,299 ICLR 2026 papers. They should be treated as **missing decisions**, not as withdrawn or rejected papers. - **PDF quality**: Some PDFs contain scanned images or non-standard layouts that reduce extraction quality - **ICML 2025 / NeurIPS 2025 selection bias (CRITICAL)**: These venues were collected from **conference proceedings, not OpenReview**. Only ~5,540 of ~21,575 NeurIPS submissions and ~3,422 of ~12,107 ICML submissions are in the dataset. The data is **not representative of the full submission pool** — rejected papers are almost entirely missing. This makes these venues **unsuitable for acceptance prediction, reviewer bias analysis, or rejection-related studies**. Only ICLR data (2024–2026) has balanced accept/reject coverage. --- ## Citation If you use this dataset in your research, please cite: ```bibtex @dataset{prism_2026, title = {PRISM: A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Peer Reviewers}, author = {Anonymous}, year = {2026}, note = {Under review — author identity withheld for double-blind review} } ``` --- ## License This dataset is provided for **research purposes only**. The data is sourced from [OpenReview](https://openreview.net) (ICLR venues) and conference proceedings pages (ICML, NeurIPS), and is subject to their respective Terms of Use. Users are responsible for complying with the original data sources' terms and conditions. --- ## Reproducing the Parquet Conversion To regenerate `papers.parquet` from the raw data: ```bash pip install pandas pyarrow python3 convert_to_parquet.py ``` The script reads all venues, extracts structured fields from JSON/GROBID files, and writes a single Parquet file with zstd compression.