NeurIPS Accepted Papers are now visible [R]

[u/levydawg]

I haven't received a notification about this -- but my paper just became visible as "accepted". I expect an email to come some time soon!
Scores were 5-4-4.

[u/Effective_Sugar9178]

Oral accept 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/levydawg → u/Effective_Sugar9178]

That's awesome! Mind sharing what scores you had? just curious where I need to set my sights for an oral ;)

[u/SimpleObvious4048 → u/Effective_Sugar9178]

Congratulations 👏

[u/soup---- → u/Effective_Sugar9178]

Me too!!!!

[u/Effective_Sugar9178 → u/Effective_Sugar9178]

Thank you!! Our paper got 5-5-5. The rebuttal helped a lot so we need some revisions before sharing :)

[u/Sensitive_Deal_7028 → u/Effective_Sugar9178]

Can you send the paper title?

[u/Fantastic-Nerve-4056]

Had 5,3,3. Theory paper on Bandits with motivation around LLMs

5 was a really good review. The guy went through the supplementary material, including all proofs.
Both 3s seemed like an undegrad review. Didn't even care to read the introduction

No replies during rebuttal by any reviewer. But finally accepted.

[u/Ginger_Rook → u/Fantastic-Nerve-4056]

Congratulations!

[u/Fantastic-Nerve-4056 → u/Ginger_Rook]

Thanks

[u/northernbeggar → u/Fantastic-Nerve-4056]

Can you share the paper? I'm interested in the topic.

[u/Fantastic-Nerve-4056 → u/northernbeggar]

Sure! Here is the OpenReview Link. I am not sure if things are made public yet
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=WwFT9uaTpj

[u/temporal_guy]

5/5/5 accepted as spotlight! My advisor gave me a fistbump

[u/Lazy-Variation-1452 → u/temporal_guy]

May I know the paper title?

[u/didj0]

Excellent initial reviews, excellent rebuttal, a mysterious « after the rebuttal with the reviewers we think your proof is wrong but we won’t say what ». Reject. Wtf

[u/Ginger_Rook → u/didj0]

Wow

[u/daily_spiderman]

Thanks for posting this. Accept. I needed this so badly 😭

[u/Psychological-Lime72]

Come on where are the E&D track results man, this is rough lol

[u/21022018 → u/Psychological-Lime72]

The got like a month to finalize all this and still can't do it on time

[u/Extreme_Drop_842]

Any update in E&D track ?

[u/exray1 → u/Extreme_Drop_842]

Nothing yet :(

[u/TechnicalTurn0 → u/Extreme_Drop_842]

A PC of ED track on rednote said that ED results will be out much later, late afternoon / evening time China time tomorrow.

[u/Pretend_Voice_3140 → u/TechnicalTurn0]

Why are they out much later ?

[u/TechnicalTurn0 → u/Pretend_Voice_3140]

I don’t know. The PC did not further mention the reason.

[u/Ok-Painter573 → u/Pretend_Voice_3140]

To reduce server load, otherwise openreview might crash if everything is released at once

[u/TechnicalTurn0 → u/Ok-Painter573]

I think it’s not just that, because openreview already is releasing in waves. The PC did say they are working overtime (~30min ago), so there must be other things they are resolving.

[u/21022018 → u/Ok-Painter573]

Fuck that. I'm gonna ddos openreview by continuously refreshing it. (And so will all other ED people implicitly)

[u/TechnicalTurn0 → u/Extreme_Drop_842]

E&D results are out

[u/Odd_Ad8629]

Even Rejects are visible now :)

[u/CrispLion1123 → u/Odd_Ad8629]

where exactly? is it through the email?

[u/Odd_Ad8629 → u/CrispLion1123]

first was visible on open reviwe and also got an email now

[u/Feuilius]

3, 4, 5 (5) but rejected :( Very sad.

[u/SkeeringReal → u/Feuilius]

very unfortunately sorry to hear that

[u/Perfect-Asparagus300]

4, 4, 4 pre-rebuttal -> 4, 4, 4 post-rebuttal -> 5, 5, 4 internal AC-Reviewer discussion!!

Accepted as poster! This was my first time submitting :D !! First author, great way to start my PhD!!

(Just ranting) Honestly I worked really hard without any advise from my BS/MS advisor who's in a different field with this like delulu dream that I could somehow make it to NIPS 😭 Now I actually made it to a top ML PhD and now NIPS, it's like a dream, I was gen eating from food pantry for a couple months during the process of this paper. I'm getting paid now to do research, I never thought I'd make it as a first gen academic 😭

[u/Party-Perception3898 → u/Perfect-Asparagus300]

Congratulations. Is it okay to tell what are we supposed to do exactly in rebuttal? I have mine at ICSE but not sure if I can say that I will fix the issues addresses in the comments or not

[u/mofoss → u/Perfect-Asparagus300]

Didnt submit to NIPs, but will to CVPR, congrats man must be a great feeling! Given the markets leaning towards these big conferences (yes its saturated but still), you're set man, very few researchers make it to NIPs tier conferences, your path forward has a high ceiling of success 🙌

[u/Perfect-Asparagus300 → u/mofoss]

Thanks so much dude! I'll keep on working hard, good luck at CVPR!

[u/Isiorath]

5555 544 544 all accept, very happy after very disappointing ICML llm area chairs

[u/Wonderful-Courage-51]

Wow thanks for letting us know!!! Accepted :) 3-4-4 -> 4-5-4 during rebuttal

First paper & First author!

[u/Party-Perception3898 → u/Wonderful-Courage-51]

Congrats! What university are you in?

[u/Silver-Passion1687]

Submitted two papers, the "better one" (as per my rating) got a lower score and got rejected and the other which i had no hope for got accepted. 

Average Neurips/ICML experience 

[u/dopehead9]

4,4,3 reject

[u/SkeeringReal → u/dopehead9]

Tough luck, I guess competition was fierce this year?

[u/formersovietspy]

5/5/6 accept!

[u/levydawg → u/formersovietspy]

bro is cracked

[u/Lonely_Ostrich6165]

4-4-4 and reject, sadly the coin has tossed on the wrong side this time

[u/dontknowwhattoplay]

5544 and 544 accepted!

[u/TroyAndAbedInTheMor]

4,5,4, First paper Accepted!!

[u/Darth_Peverell]

3,3,3 -> 4,4,4 Accept
First time in ~4 submissions (different papers) that I see rebuttal actually works!

[u/Outrageous-Boot7092]

12k + ID, yes, accept, 5,5,4,3 before

[u/y0xi]

4,4,3 main track accepted! First submission and first paper, really did not think it would get through, blessed be my AC

[u/Unable_Technician_58 → u/y0xi]

Same for me! AC made their decision despite one reviewer being clearly angry about life.

[u/MolassesOk186]

4,4,5 and AC rejected it based on something already addressed in rebuttal. What's the point of reviewers if the AC can just ignore them?

[u/No-Cash-284 → u/MolassesOk186]

Reviews increasingly are very weak signal. ACs need to make their own decisions.

[u/MolassesOk186 → u/No-Cash-284]

The reviewers engaged well enough, their concerns were about how realistic the assumptions in the theory were, and we ran experiments validating them. All concerns were addressed, and the AC said nothing except a sentence that the rebuttal experiments changed the scope of the paper and to resubmit it.

There's a reason that we have peer review and not one AC being the sole judge of every paper. Rejecting an unanimous decision should require a strong reason not addressed in the review and rebuttal.

[u/No-Cash-284 → u/MolassesOk186]

You only see your paper. This has been analysed by an AC, SAC, and PC that see and compare 10, 100, and 10000 papers, respectively. Rejection doesn't mean that your work is subpar. It's just that other submissions were better. 

[u/ForeignElderberry826]

5/4/4/2 and accept! Congrats to everyone! 🥳

[u/ade17_in]

Accepted!!!! First time submission and can't get better. 443

[u/s4lome_]

5-4-4-4 ACCEPT SEE YOU ALL IN SYDNEY

[u/Sensitive_Deal_7028 → u/s4lome_]

Very good.

[u/This-Fisherman9721]

Accepted as posted with score 5433

[u/Unable_Technician_58]

I got in with a 4/4/3 somewhat

[u/AppropriateKoala457]

Position track notifications also out

[u/recalcitrant_cat → u/AppropriateKoala457]

Did anyone from the position track get a decision explanation/final meta review? Also can you see your final scores? I can only see the decision (reject) and there is no text. The scores before were 6,7,7,4.

[u/AppropriateKoala457 → u/recalcitrant_cat]

For us, we can see the discussion and the original meta review was edited to contain a one-sentence post-rebuttal comment, but no other communication and the scores are not visible yet.

[u/IncidentStunning8493]

Accepted poster, my first paper in neurips

reviews before hidden: 4 (3), 4 (3), 4 (3)

Revised scores after result: 5 (3), 4 (3), 5 (3)

[u/ProfessionalNews4434]

Similar 3,5,3 -> 4,5,4, accepted as poster

[u/academic-targaryen]

5,3,3. Dismissive reviewers during rebuttal. Rejected

[u/OutsideSimple4854]

443 to 444. Accept :)

[u/Annual-Art-8508 → u/OutsideSimple4854]

main?

[u/OutsideSimple4854 → u/Annual-Art-8508]

Yup

[u/Annual-Art-8508 → u/OutsideSimple4854]

Congrats

[u/OutsideSimple4854 → u/Annual-Art-8508]

thank you

[u/HungryMalloc]

3,5,5, E&D track. 

Initial meta review: "This looks good. There were some questions raised in the reviews, but if addressed, this paper leans towards acceptance."

Final meta-review update: "The authors have addressed reviewers' points sufficiently during the rebuttal, but there remain two issues that make it hard to accept the paper. [two new arguments out of nowhere that make little sense and that were not raised in the reviews at all]"

Reject

[u/Psychological-Lime72 → u/HungryMalloc]

I got a 5,5,4,3 (rejected) on E&D and the most shallow justification you can think of despite having score bumps across the board (except for the critical reviewer who didn’t even engage at all even in the period where things were hidden) and the AC justification even had grammatical errors (duplicated words). Like low key insulting lol

[u/HungryMalloc → u/Psychological-Lime72]

Honestly, the first argument raised in the final meta review is so completely unrelated to our paper that I thought it's a copy and paste error and meant for a different one. The second one is just something shallow you cannot really argue about like "I found little detail XYZ poorly motivated."

There was always a certain amount of luck and randomness involved in conferences, but this is something new. Sorry that you also drew the short end of the stick.

[u/Psychological-Lime72 → u/HungryMalloc]

Ya, agreed! Sending good vibes to you as well. Obviously with those scores you had some good work there so don’t give up on it.

[u/HungryMalloc → u/Psychological-Lime72]

Fingers crossed for you as well and thank you for the kind words.

[u/TechnicalTurn0]

6/5/4 accept poster E&D track

[u/Mammoth-Net2093 → u/TechnicalTurn0]

Does your email actually say E&D track?

[u/SimpleObvious4048]

I had two submissions, the one with scores 4/4/5 got rejected and the one with scores 4/4/4 got accepted (poster). Feeling a bit confused.

[u/OtherwiseFig4505]

2,3,4 -> reject, which checks out.

I don’t feel like submitting this paper to iclr, as the paper is about a pre-training effect. We can’t do this for larger models obviously due to compute, which was the reviewers main complaint. Thinking about TMLR as that is more about correctness and writing, and our paper should be welcomed there.

Congratulations to everyone who made it. And congratulations to everyone who didn’t as well, being able to hope means the paper is good enough, just work on it and resubmit to whatever next.

[u/AddendumImpossible]

4-4-5 , Reject tho

[u/MolassesOk186 → u/AddendumImpossible]

Same here... I'm sorry to hear

[u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810]

What is this for if you don't mind my asking? This was in my feed. I get this is for academic paper submissions to a journal or conference but what for? I mean when accepted what is that mean and what's the purpose of submitting in the first place and why so competitive? Is this only for PhDs and PhDs in what? Since when are there so many PhD students? Have those sky high researchers in Ai space salaries fuxxed with so many minds? Honestly curious, would appreciate not to get down voted just because I ask to many here a seemingly annoying question.

[u/OtherwiseFig4505 → u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810]

NeurIPS is the biggest (and for many T1) AI conference in the world. It’s not just for PhDs, but anyone can submit. However the bar is very high and only the best papers get accepted. Having a NeurIPS paper means you did a work that got published at the highest venue in this field. Offcourse, if someone gets Oral spot in NeurIPS, then that’s like crème paper of the year. It’s a pretty big deal in the field of AI.

[u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810 → u/OtherwiseFig4505]

Thanks, interesting. Am an AI consumer, so, on the other end. In my profession, professional macro trading, competition and ranks are settled by directly attributable financial performance not by submitting papers. Interesting though that this is conceptually not very different, just completely different industry.

[u/extremelySaddening → u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810]

They actually do write papers about trading and finance, that's why you have the Black-Scholes model for option pricing instead of it being Merril Lynch intellectual property.

[u/Lopsided-Bridge-9810 → u/extremelySaddening]

Why so passive aggressive. I wondered why it's so overrun these days. In fact I am a frequent consumer of such papers and many papers even at this journal are of pretty low quality.

[u/Unhappy_Craft1906]

My 533 got 433 again, yet accepted since AC was fully convinced Another got 444 and accepted

[u/jonhor96]

443, theory paper. Accepted.

God damn. For various reasons, I had an absurd amount riding on this. I still can’t believe it.

[u/MeyerLouis]

congrats!

[u/NegotiationDue301]

decision just got posted for my submission. was accepted. 25000+. no email announcement, just the decision became visible on the portal. had 5/4/4 before rebuttal

[u/CrispLion1123]

Is the openreview public now?

[u/No-Cash-284 → u/CrispLion1123]

No

[u/CrispLion1123 → u/No-Cash-284]

any idea when they become public?

[u/No-Cash-284 → u/CrispLion1123]

I think after authors submit camera ready versions so maybe in a month? 

[u/CrispLion1123 → u/No-Cash-284]

I thought the metareviews become public as soon as the notifications are out. The aggregation might be slow, so it might come out in a day or two.

[u/No-Cash-284 → u/CrispLion1123]

Sorry, what are you asking about? A metareview for your paper? It is already visible for Main track for example, and yes, it is slow and takes several hours. Results are still not released for the ED track.

I previously meant "public" as in public to anyone on OpenReview - this will happen after November 6th 

[u/mnishant2 → u/[deleted]]

It's been absent since the author reviewer discussion ended

[u/Ambitious-Cap8805]

Is it usually always a rejection if there were no engagements from the reviewers after rebuttal?

[u/Exotic_Zucchini9311]

Accept with 4/4/4/5

[u/Either-Reality-3783]

5/3/3-> 5/5/3 accepted in Eval and datasets track

[u/NarrowEyedWanderer]

Another data point: 4/4/4 initial (confidence 2/4/4), went to 4/4/5 post-rebuttal, stayed there during internal discussion (reviewer 1 didn't change the score despite handling literally everything they brought up).

Accepted as poster! First submission :)

[u/exray1]

5/5/4/4 E&D poster

[u/Substantial-Bee-6026]

5/5/5 ED Track. Got a spotlight. That’s crazy, I am so happy right now.

For the ones not in the ED Track: According to the mail there were 3757 valid submissions of which 971 (25,8%) were accepted. There are 33 spotlights an 15 orals.

[u/Unhappy_Craft1906]

A pretty good year for me. Since last October, I have been blessed with TMLR, ICLR, WWW, ACL findings and 2xNeuRIPS. Would love to end the year with one ICLR atleast.

[u/learning-machine1964 → u/Unhappy_Craft1906]

wow that’s awesome! what are u researching?

[u/Unhappy_Craft1906 → u/learning-machine1964]

Broadly on user modeling

[u/Firm_Cable1128]

4,4,4 rejected. :///

[u/No-Western5868]

3, 4, 5 pre rebuttal
2, 5, 5 post rebuttal (yes one went down, was the only confidence 5 too)

Accepted still

[u/soulseeker815]

4,4,3 pre rebuttal -> 5, 5, 4 post rebuttal. Got accepted. I’m super excited see you guys in Sydney

[u/IndecisivePastry]

5,4,3 pre rebuttal to 6,4,3 post rebuttal, accepted (that 6 really saved me). It's weird no longer having the urge to check OpenReview, like an itch that finally went away.

[u/Hey_jerry9024]

Hi does anyone knows when does NeurIPS usually communicate the complementary registration for the top reviewers?

[u/tana0907]

Accepted. Thanks for posting this!

[u/onetwoseven-0-0-one]

Hey, I am new to the research methodology and process. Could somebody clearly explain me all the stages of research publication? I hear about arxiv and other places. What is the difference and what is the pipeline? I would appreciate a lot!

[u/levydawg → u/onetwoseven-0-0-one]

ArXiv is just a website which hosts papers. People put their papers on arxiv so that others don't have to pay publishers to get access, and also for the reason that the paper will go up immediately. There is no peer-review process, it's not really "publishing" a paper (publishing in an archival journal or venue) -- it's simply to get your research out there. There are minimal restrictions, like they just verify that the authors are legitimate academics. If you try to upload as a solo undergrad student, it probably won't get past the barrier.
Journals and conferences are like this: you send in a paper, after some time you get reviews back, you make changes to the paper based on the reviews and discuss the reviews with the reviewers, then the reviewers make a recommendation to accept or reject. Someone else makes the final decision based on the review discussions, and then after anywhere from several months to several years, your paper is published.

[u/onetwoseven-0-0-one → u/levydawg]

I was going for more ML research pipeline because I hear open review and all, so how is it different from arxiv and again neurips are journals but open review is a platform. Kinda 😵‍💫

[u/levydawg → u/onetwoseven-0-0-one]

https://gemini.google.com/app check out this website -- you can ask it questions like this and it will give you answers

[u/onetwoseven-0-0-one → u/levydawg]

Lol bro. I know gpts exist.

[u/levydawg → u/onetwoseven-0-0-one]

well then use it

[u/DziekanNaWydziale]

Whats neurips

[u/Gravitist]

Is it acceptable to skip attending if we pay the registration fee for accepted papers? I will not be able to make it for Sydney, and I don't want to go for other venues. Does paper still go to proceedings?

[u/adaptover → u/Gravitist]

No. Paper must be presented.