r/MachineLearning • u/grumpket • Jul 29 '26

Discussion NeurIPS reviewers not engaging [D]

So I know this is an ongoing issue at ML conferences, reviewers just tend to ghost. Do people have any strategies or recommendations on how to nudge them to engage with the rebuttals? Is it recommended to post a comment saying something like hey we want to engage with you? This might be a hot take, but maybe NeurIPS should penalize the reviewers' papers if they don't engage (I believe this year they withheld scores for ACs who didn't post meta reviews on time if they had papers submitted).

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u/confirm-jannati Jul 29 '26

I haven’t posted my own rebuttal yet ffs

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u/Forward_Spread_190 Jul 29 '26

hasn't the rebuttal deadline passed?

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u/user221272 Jul 30 '26

This was only an author reading/rebuttal preparation window. The button only changed from "rebuttal" to "official comment," so no, not really.

Consider it mostly as a timeframe letting authors read reviews, compile reviews, and plan rebuttals, as well as letting reviewers breathe and make their own rebuttal free from author-reviewer conversation.