What about a fee for submission (e.g $100) that is waived upon acceptance?
It can be lowered substantially for accessibility reasons (e.g $25 per paper), and the proceeds can go towards improving accessibility in the field (e.g by hosting the Deep Learning Indaba). (Of course we know that reviews are pretty random but still)
You do mention that people are under pressure to submit work to conferences, and this may discourage massive submission volumes per lab.
On the problem of “too many to review”:
What about a fee for submission (e.g $100) that is waived upon acceptance?
It can be lowered substantially for accessibility reasons (e.g $25 per paper), and the proceeds can go towards improving accessibility in the field (e.g by hosting the Deep Learning Indaba). (Of course we know that reviews are pretty random but still)
You do mention that people are under pressure to submit work to conferences, and this may discourage massive submission volumes per lab.