Academics say artificial intelligence research is being diluted by a surge of rapidly produced papers that receive only cursory peer review. The criticism has intensified after Kevin Zhu, a recent Berkeley graduate,
claimed authorship on 113 AI papers in a single year. Eighty-nine of those papers were accepted for presentation in December at a leading international conference focused on AI and machine learning, prompting questions among researchers about how such a volume of work could be carefully evaluated.