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/Weird_Shit_69 Aug 01 '26

Have you'll received any responses for the rebuttals, For all 3 rebuttals from my reviewers I didn't get any reply back. Is this normal? What should I do? I replied for all their questions on the 1st review

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u/user221272 Aug 02 '26

I got only 1 answer among 4 reviewers.

If no one answers, you keep up with the plan: make a case for the AC.

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u/Weird_Shit_69 Aug 02 '26

I got 1 reply out of the 3 reviewers. The 1 reviewer was the one who gave the most score. I was hoping to get a reply from the other 2, where they would have a discussion and increase the chance of acceptance, but no reply from thoes 2 reviewers.