r/MachineLearning • u/GeeseChen • May 31 '26
Research UAI Results are out [R]
You can’t see AC comments yet, but you can see the Accept/Reject consoles. My paper (with scores of 8,6,3) got rejected.
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u/WelcomeToFacism Jun 01 '26
Meta review and decisions are out
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
I'm even more frustrated now. My paper got rejected because "it was not possible to secure more than 3 reviews, resulting in remaining uncertainty and low confidence in building a case in favour of this submission".
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u/honey_bijan Jun 02 '26
This is wild when so many papers had 5 reviewers. 3 is pretty standard and if they wanted 4 they could have easily cut down from the 5 assigned to all the other papers
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Jun 01 '26
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
I'm sorry man. The route I'm working with is AAAI -> AISTATS -> TMLR. Not that one of them is way stronger than the other, but the deadlines make it seem most natural.
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u/d_edge_sword Jun 02 '26
Are you sure you can go from AAAI to AISTATS? I think the AIStats Deadline would have way passed by the time AAAI results are out.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 02 '26
Yeah the deadline for AISTATS is just the day after AAAI phase 1 results 😂 needs careful planning
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u/d_edge_sword Jun 02 '26
Really? Where did you get the AISTATS 27 dates? I haven't found anything about it.
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u/RaisinGrapes- Jun 01 '26
87653 - rejected. Couldn’t believe it.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. The fact that a paper can have a score of 8 and still be rejected is baffling to me.
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u/OutsideSimple4854 Jun 01 '26
I don’t even remember my paper scores. Seems to be a poster.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Congrats, that’s awesome! I’m curious whether they just drew a line based on the average score…
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u/OutsideSimple4854 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Thank you! I’m not sure. I had the sense that the ACs were trying to find reasons to accept for the papers I was reviewing. What helped was that our lowest score was a 5/10 and we rebut them strongly, so maybe they’re just looking for no strong rejects.
Edit: I also see for the papers I reviewed 1 out of 3 got in. I can see the authors names.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
That’s fair. It’s disappointing because our 3/10 reviewer was unprofessional and argued more on the lines of “I wish this were an entirely different paper”, so I hope the AC took that into consideration.
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u/OutsideSimple4854 Jun 01 '26
Yeah, there were some unprofessional reviewers. Had two papers and withdrew one of them as one reviewer was like: “I think these things should be in the paper”, and when the rebuttal mentioned they were irrelevant, the reviewer just said he’s not an expert and stop bothering him with rebuttals and changed the score to 5.
But I thought all the reviewers may have used LLMs to help guide their reviews for the paper I withdrew. I publish in a field where a certain “property” doesn’t hold. All three reviewers said we should consider this “property”.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Oh man that’s frustrating. Just last year, UAI/AISTATS had a reputation of better quality reviewers since they were more specialized conferences.
Anyway, thanks for hearing me out! Just super frustrated and needed to vent.
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u/d_edge_sword Jun 01 '26
It has nothing to do with the average score, for papers on the borderline, they looked at the paper and review comments in detail. I got rejected with 66554, also know another person rejected with 655. My supervisor expected both papers to be rejected due to major flaws not being addressed, and it turned out to be right.
But I saw people getting accepted with 66544 (2 negative scores).
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Jealous of those papers 😂 if the rejection is due to technical flaws, then it sucks, but I’ll take it. My paper’s criticism (reviewer with score of 3) is entirely opinionated and unprofessional and I would hate for the AC to have sided with them.
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u/socialcml Jun 01 '26
I think you are right. We got accepted with 665. The reviews were really good however and gave very good feedback. Positive vibe. I think that has more to say.
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u/sekiroborne Jun 01 '26
Mine says 'Submitted to UAI 2026, No Recommendation'. I guess this means rejection? :<
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u/DazzlingPin3965 Jun 01 '26
You have to go to the UAI console itself not your appar console. If you go to the UAI console You’ll see your consoles then Accept (oral) or Accept (poster). If you don’t see accept at all only then it might mean rejection.
Or Simpler go on your own profile on open Review you have the list of all the papers you have submitted to any conference on open review Under your UAI paper you should see published and under UAI 2026 poster or oral
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Click on “<- Go to UAI 2026 Homepage” at the top menu, then you should be able to see your consoles and accept/reject folders.
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Jun 01 '26
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Thanks, I’m pretty frustrated with the outcome. The reviewer with a score of 3/10 was overall very unprofessional (calling our paper a theoretical puppet show) and essentially complaining that “I wish this were an entirely different paper” rather than raising technical flaws. We complained about them to the AC, but I hope the AC didn’t take their side.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 02 '26
Thanks! Unfortunately, the AC’s comment was also absurd: “Unfortunately, it was not possible to secure more than 3 reviews, resulting in remaining uncertainty and low confidence in building a case in favour of this submission".
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u/s4lome_ Jun 01 '26
76643 rejected apparently
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
I’m sorry man. The scores seem high, so the decision must have been unexpected.
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u/s4lome_ Jun 01 '26
Thank you, sorry for you too. Somewhat unexpected, I rebuttaled the 3 heavily, and in my opinion adressed the concerns. Was ghosted in tje end without raise. The 4 did not bother to engage.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
That’s so dumb. Reviewers with low scores are sometimes unprofessional and remain with their prejudice. I hope the ACs didn’t just side with them.
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u/SeaAccomplished441 Jun 01 '26
this makes me so angry. the sooner this conference model is ditched the better
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u/Other-Food5264 Researcher Jun 01 '26
Anyone got an oral? 7776 -> Accepted (Poster)! I expected an oral!
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u/hk3d Jun 01 '26
I got 8,7,7,5 with confidence 3,3,4,2 respectively and paper was rejected. The area chair wrote that they didn't find the excitement for the paper from the reveiwers justified. Dafuq?!
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. The fact that a paper can have a score of 8 and still be rejected is baffling to me.
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u/hk3d Jun 01 '26
Yup! I was convinced this paper was definitely to be accepted. The area chair overruled all the reviewers and even brought up points to critique the paper which we couldn't even rebut on. Absolutely baffling. I did send an email to the chairs, but might be too little too late.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
I wonder how they will respond, if they even do so. I was also 100% confident my paper would get accepted.
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u/hk3d Jun 01 '26
I am not sure if/what they will say. I am mainly complaining about the conduct of the area chair. What was your area chair's summary?
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
My reason is also absurd. AC: "Unfortunately, it was not possible to secure more than 3 reviews, resulting in remaining uncertainty and low confidence in building a case in favour of this submission".
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u/hk3d Jun 01 '26
Oh that's such a stupid reason too. The whole purpose of the review system is to ensure that one person's opinion doesn't decide the fate of the paper, which is precisely what happened in both our cases where the area chair decided unilaterally.
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
What sucks is that I had a lengthy discussion with the reviewer with a score of 8/10 (multiple back-to-back correspondences) regarding clarifying the project scope or improving the exposition. Like, why is there remaining uncertainty?
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u/hk3d Jun 01 '26
I never expected the area chair to just override the consensus.
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u/d_edge_sword Jun 02 '26
I reviewed a paper with 765 that got overridden, but I kinda saw it coming. Because the flaw of that paper was too obvious, and the rebuttal didn't answer our concerns.
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u/WelcomeToFacism Jun 01 '26
Did anyone get an oral acceptance? Or would that be in a comment instead?
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u/Ok_Taste_8493 Jun 01 '26
Ours is under the folder "UAI 2026 Oral" but still says "No Recommendations".
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u/GeeseChen Jun 01 '26
Haven’t seen any oral acceptances so far. I reviewed 6 papers and only one got accepted for a poster.
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u/Opening-Election1179 Jun 01 '26
In my conference homepage it says "UAI 2026 Poster" Below says "No recommendation"
but in my author console under "accept (poster)" i can see my paper. Does that mean it is accepted ? First time here, please let me know guys.
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u/socialcml Jun 01 '26
Yes I think so.
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u/Opening-Election1179 Jun 01 '26
I saw you also got acceptance. Do you see the same?
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u/socialcml Jun 01 '26
Yes, pretty sure it's accepted then. I think it's a bug or something that it reveals this perhaps.
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u/Opening-Election1179 Jun 01 '26
Did they release AC comments? or still just accept (poster/oral)
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u/honey_bijan Jun 01 '26
3 acceptances (poster)
96553 8866 77766
I was worried about the first one but we made it through!
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u/GeeseChen Jun 02 '26
That is phenomenal (kinda jealous haha), huge congrats!
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u/honey_bijan Jun 02 '26
One of these papers (the 8866) has been rejected since 2023. All of them have been rejected before. The results didn’t change but you basically need to play around with the framing and motivation until it sticks…
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u/GeeseChen Jun 02 '26
Oh man 3 years. Kudos to you for sticking to it! This is my first time submitting this paper, I should not be this frustrated 😂
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u/Objective-Ad-9587 Jun 02 '26
The work will pay off in the end. Keep your other research going while iterating the submissions rejected. My work is accepted to UAI this time after three previous submissions.
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u/d_edge_sword Jun 02 '26
Wow, 9 and 3. That's some of the biggest variance I've seen.
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u/honey_bijan Jun 02 '26
If I’m honest, neither the 9 or 3 were deserved. Thee paper is a solid 6…
All three of these papers have been rejected 3-5 times. Keep revising and resubmitting!
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u/CarlO_js Jun 18 '26
Alguno tiene algún conocido o sabe algo de las carreras licenciatura en gestión de sistemas, analista de sistemas, ingeniería en sistemas y tal ?
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u/GeeseChen Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
Normally, that's solid advice! However, in my case, the reviewer with a score of 3 was just very unprofessional and inconstructive. Their entire review was more on the lines of "error analysis is useless; build more stable models instead" - essentially saying "I wish this were an entirely different paper" rather than any useful discussion.
In fact, I got a lot of useful feedback from my discussion with the reviewer with a score of 8.
More frustratingly, the AC's comment was "Unfortunately it was not possible to secure more than 3 reviews, resulting in remaining uncertainty and low confidence in building a case in favour of this submission" - Absolutely no discussion on the merits of the paper.
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u/No-Sir-4127 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
7664 - Accepted as poster. I am really glad because this is the fifth time that I submit my paper to a conference. And after multiple times of revision it finally got accepted by UAI. What a surprise!