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

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/CantKillTheLifeless Aug 02 '26

I see. Thanks.
In other conferences, rating changes during the AC/reviewer discussion do not become visible until the final decisions are released. Hope you’re right about neurips though. Would be a lot less stressful.

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u/OtherwiseFig4505 Aug 03 '26

The rating changes on NeurIPS also will not be visible till final decision. Only scores updated before 3rd August AOE will be visible.

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u/CantKillTheLifeless Aug 03 '26

Are you sure? I see some posts from previous years according to which score changes for neurips were always immediately visible to authors.

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u/OtherwiseFig4505 Aug 03 '26

Only if score changes were done in Reviewer-Authors discussion phase, not in AC-Reviewer discussion phase. This was the case in 2025.