IJCAI 2025 deadline
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
August 19-22, 2025 · Montreal, Canada.
All deadlines for this edition have passed.
Key dates
Abstract / registration
Thu, Jan 16, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Full paper
Thu, Jan 23, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Separate satellite event: August 29-31, 2025, Guangzhou, China
Conference
August 19-22, 2025 · Montreal, Canada.
What IJCAI reviewers will look for
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 reviews in two phases: two Phase-1 reviews decide summary rejection without author response, then Phase 2 adds reviews, a one-page author response (no new results) and an AC meta-review cross-checked by a senior AC. Criteria: novelty and originality, correctness, clarity, significance of results, potential impact and presentation quality. Questions for authors must be pressing and answerable without new experiments; missing code, data or full proofs should not be the main reason to reject.
- Overall score
- Overall Assessment, 1–9 (top: “Award Quality”)
- Written fields
- Summary Of Main Contributions · Main Strengths · Opportunities To Improve The Paper · Pressing Questions For The Authors In The Rebuttal · Justification Of Score · Reproducibility · Ethical Concerns · Expertise
- Author checklist
- IJCAI reproducibility checklist, 4 items
Where the bar sits. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 accepted about 13.5% of main-track papers (secondary source; 2025: 19.3%). A summary-reject phase removes papers whose two Phase-1 reviews are not positive enough, and a rebuttal rarely rescues reject-leaning reviews. On the 1–9 scale a mean of ≥ 5 (Borderline Accept) is needed to be competitive; most accepts average 6+.
LLM policy for reviewers
IJCAI-ECAI 2026 lets reviewers use generative AI only to improve the readability of their own review text, after removing anything identifying or confidential; submissions or their technical content must never be uploaded to tools without confidentiality guarantees.
Official policy