COLT 2025 deadline
Annual Conference on Learning Theory
July 1-4, 2025 · Lyon, France
All deadlines for this edition have passed.
Key dates
Full paper
Thu, Feb 6, 2025 · 10:00 AoE
Conference
July 1-4, 2025 · Lyon, France
What COLT reviewers will look for
COLT asks reviewers to judge whether the work is close to being ready for publication and to help guide it there with constructive feedback. Papers are evaluated primarily on the main text, though all proofs must be included; there is an author response and discussion phase. Theory papers are judged on the significance and novelty of their results and techniques and on technical correctness, not on empirical evaluation.
- Overall score
- Overall Score, 1–5 (top: “Strong accept”)
- Written fields
- Summary Of Results · Significance And Novelty · Technical Correctness · Clarity And Presentation · Comments And Questions For The Authors
- Author checklist
- COLT submission requirements, 3 items
Where the bar sits. COLT 2026 accepted about 190 papers; submission counts are not published (historically ~30% acceptance). On this modeled 1–5 scale a mean of ≥ 3.5 is a rough proxy for acceptance.
LLM policy for reviewers
COLT 2026 reviewers must not share submissions with any LLM; models may be used like books or Wikipedia to understand technical points, without leaking confidential information.
Official policy