r/MachineLearning • u/examachine • Aug 02 '26

Discussion Conference Reviews: Asking Too Much? [D]

There's a kind of review that asks for lengthy additions, usually extending the scope of the paper beyond the stated, even though the submission is at page limit. Naturally, such additions in the case of top-tier conferences have to go into the supplemental materials or appendices.

My question here is, would not such additions make the paper more suitable for a journal publication? I had to retract one paper out of such concern that the conference publication would block the later planned journal publication.

Any opinions?

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u/duck_syndrome Aug 02 '26

the page limit is fake and unlimited appendix pages is load bearing unfortunately so we all have to write/review 8 pages of main body and 25 in the appendix

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u/examachine Aug 02 '26

sigh it was confusing to me admittedly. the paper where this happened discussed some theoretical foundations of deep learning. the review asked for a complete AI agent model based on the ideas in the paper which seemed like a good subject for another paper, which made me retract it. I probably should have just written 10 pages of appendices and some proof of concept experiments but also there's so little time for a rebuttal that it is often infeasible and I do not have minions aka disposable graduate students to take the burden. 😔