ICLR 2026 deadline
International Conference on Learning Representations
April 23-25, 2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
All deadlines for this edition have passed.
Key dates
Abstract / registration
Fri, Sep 19, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Full paper
Wed, Sep 24, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Conference
April 23-25, 2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
What ICLR reviewers will look for
ICLR's reviewer guide prescribes: summarize the claimed contribution; list strong and weak points; clearly state an initial recommendation with one or two key reasons; give supporting arguments; ask questions; optionally add feedback marked as not part of the decision. Reviewers should ask what problem is tackled, whether the approach is well motivated and placed in the literature, whether claims are supported correctly and rigorously, and whether the work is significant. Reviews are public on OpenReview.
- Overall score
- Rating, 0–10 (top: “strong accept, should be highlighted at the conference”)
- Sub-scores
- Soundness, Presentation, Contribution (1–4)
- Written fields
- Summary · Strengths · Weaknesses · Questions · Flag For Ethics Review
- Author checklist
- ICLR author statements, 5 items
Where the bar sits. ICLR 2026 accepted 27.4% of decided submissions. Paper Copilot means: posters ≈ 5.4, orals ≈ 6.4, rejected ≈ 4.0. Rough rule: mean ≥ 5 likely accept, ~4.4–5 borderline.
What do ICLR scores mean? Acceptance odds by scoreLLM policy for reviewers
ICLR 2026 allows LLMs as general-purpose writing assistance, but reviewers are fully responsible for content and must disclose LLM use in the review form. Reviews were screened with LLM-text detectors.
Official policy