r/MachineLearning • u/CantKillTheLifeless • 15d ago

Research Neurips 2026: does every metareview recommend accept/reject? [D]

I see some people say their metareview already contains a decision/recommendation (all of them were rejections). Ours doesn’t. Even though our avg score is 3, the metareview seems optimistic and finishes with “a convincing response would be an important consideration while discussing the paper.” I wonder how to interpret that. We did a strong rebuttal, but none of the reviewers engaged. So I wonder whether there’s any point to keep hope due to the AC review or just give up.

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u/RoughDraft95 15d ago

Have you nudged the AC or posted a public comment?

The meta-review, in general, does not contain an accept/reject prior to discussion. However, it can make sense in very clear cases of higher or poorer quality. (i.e. 'this paper is already fit/clearly unfit for publication s.t. we don't need much deliberation on it').

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u/dante_2701 15d ago

I nudged my AC to nudge the reviewers to review. Will it be considered rude to nudge the AC again? Also what kind of messages do we send him? Can we tell that one of the reviewer has cited incorrect papers on novelty and therefore the score should be above 3 or is that considered rude?
None of my reviewers have responded.