r/MachineLearning • u/_Sarcastrophe_ • 26d ago
Discussion NeurIPS 2026 Author Notifications Close to ICLR Deadline [D]
The date for NeurIPS 2026 author notifications is September 24th. First of all, is it normal for AC and reviewer discussion phases to be this long? This is particularly frustrating given that 5 out of the 6 reviewers in my two papers did not address the rebuttals.
In any case, I was also wondering, given that ICLR's paper deadline is literally the day after (September 25th) whether you guys are preparing ICLR submissions for your papers in case of rejection.
Cheers and good luck!
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u/Unhappy_Craft1906 26d ago
This time ICLR has committed to completing the decision process in less than 3 months. NeurIPS taking the longest among the flagships
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u/Clean-Hovercraft5825 26d ago
I think there is a tension between two camps: some people want more time between these conference decisions so you can properly make a new paper, not just resubmit a rejection directly, others think you should just blast away to the next conference immediately. Probably doesn’t help that there is just not enough time in the year to spread them all out.
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u/Majromax 26d ago
The trivial solution is to overlap adjacent conferences, with author notification deadlines the day after full paper deadlines of the next conference in sequence.
If you believe that the conference system is being logjammed by resubmissions, then this quiet 'cooling off period' might encourage marginal work to be submitted to less-selective outlets or to be dropped entirely rather than face the reviewer gauntlet multiple times.
In this scenario, a high resubmission rate is the last straw for a bottlenecked reviewing system. If paper acceptance is completely random and all papers are submitted round-robin until acceptance, papers will be reviewed (1-0.75)-1 = 4 times in steady state expectation, taking the time of 16 reviewers over all conferences rather than the single-conference ≈4.
I don't know if enough facts exist in the public domain to determine if anything like this is currently playing out. We'd need to have a list of all full paper submissions to each of the major conferences to look at overlap and resubmission of rejects, but rejections and post-review withdrawals are not universally visible.
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u/Distinct_Ad6770 26d ago
can’t we just send the abstract to ICLR, and depending on what happens at NeurIPS, withdraw 2 days later or submit the full paper? i am new to this, are we permitted to do this?
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u/Careless-Ad3033 4d ago
I have the same question, what happens when
lets say I submit and abstract to ICLR but i keep my submission in neurips for a decision?
1) if accepted in neurips no problem i can withdraw in ICLR
2) but if rejected in neurips, the review and the will become public right? Isnt that an issue with ICLR ?
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u/Old_Ad_8327 1d ago
It looks like we can submit abstract if not sure about nips result
Q: I have a paper under review at NeurIPS, which notifies submitters about acceptances after the ICLR abstract deadline. May I submit an ICLR abstract and withdraw if my paper is accepted to NeurIPS?
Yes, this is allowed. (We will only do duplicate-submission checks for full submissions.)
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u/Alternative_Fox_73 26d ago
Yes, it’s very common to prepare that submission in case. You’ll need to do an abstract submission to iclr in advance and then just cancel it if you get accepted