Guides
Guides for paper authors
Deadlines, rebuttals and review rules, checked against each venue's official pages. Also see the deadline tracker and the review forms.
Guide
The ICLR 2027 rebuttal and discussion period
ICLR 2027 reviews are out Nov 5 and discussion runs to Nov 18. What your scores mean, how to triage reviews, what to change in the PDF, and a reply skeleton.
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How to write a rebuttal for an ML conference
A practical method for rebuttals at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR and ACL/ARR: triage the reviews, answer with evidence, handle reviewer 2, and fit each venue's format.
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CVPR 2027 submission checklist
Everything to check before the CVPR 2027 deadline (registration Nov 10, paper Nov 16 AoE): formatting, page limit, double-blind anonymity, supplementary and policies.
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LLM policies for authors and reviewers, by venue
What each ML, NLP and vision venue allows authors and reviewers to do with LLMs, in one table with links to the official policies.
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paperreview.ai and reviewpaper.ai, compared
How Stanford's free paperreview.ai compares with reviewpaper.ai: pages read, venue forms, number of reviewers, evidence links, delivery and price.
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Review score scales, compared
Every venue's overall review scale with its official labels and rough acceptance bar, plus a converter that maps a score to the same position on other venues' scales.
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The CVPR rebuttal: one page, no links, no surprises
How to write a CVPR rebuttal: the one-page limit (references and figures included), what's banned, how to fit answers on a page, and a skeleton for the official template.
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ACL Rolling Review cycles, explained
ARR cycle dates, author response windows and commitment deadlines for NAACL, COLING, EACL and ACL 2027, plus how commitment, resubmission and the author response work.
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AI paper review tools, compared
An honest comparison of AI paper reviewers for researchers: paperreview.ai, Reviewer3, Refine.ink, Thesify, Manusights, Bibby, q.e.d and reviewpaper.ai. Price, format, limits, audience.
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