AIhub monthly digest: September 2025 – conference reviewing, soccer ball detection, and memory traces

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we hear about the latest research on soccer ball detection, learn about energy-based transformers, find out about memory traces in reinforcement learning, and explore some potential solutions to the problems with conference reviewing. Issues with the peer-review process, and pertaining to conferences in particular, are often discussed among authors, reviewers and conference chairs alike. However, coming up with potential solutions to the problem has proved challenging. Jaeho told us more in this interview .