tfburns

tfburns t1_iv3no12 wrote

>How should I read the reviews?

I suggest reading them in full multiple times, then trying to write a synthesis of the opinions and main critiques. After that, you need to figure out how will you respond to the main critiques: will you try to fix them (if so, how?) or are those critiques incorrect or mistaken in some way (if so, how?).

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>So how good is accepted?

No one can tell you for sure at this stage, and ultimately it's a case-by-case decision. However, you can see what past years' scores led to in terms of decisions here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ymctqy/comment/iv3m9qy/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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tfburns t1_iv3mvh5 wrote

>8, 3, and 3

Very big split! In one past case of mine, I found the higher-rated one sneaked their rating down to go along with the group without saying anything. Hope that doesn't happen for you.

>I'm curious if reviewers can update their score freely during the discussion or they can only update once at the end

AFAIK they can change at any time by "editing" their original review comment. Ideally they also add some text/reply to indicate that they changed their score and why.

Whatever the outcome, congrats on your first submission!

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tfburns t1_iv3m9qy wrote

FYI, if you are curious about your chances given your ICLR scores, you can check some scores (and resulting decisions) from previous years:

2022: https://guoqiangwei.xyz/iclr2022_stats/iclr2022_submissions.html

2021: https://github.com/evanzd/ICLR2021-OpenReviewData

And someone even made a small calculator based on 2019 data: http://horace.io/willmypaperbeaccepted/

Edit: Someone has also scraped this year's data, so you can see where your paper lies in the distribution: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1INZI9epkfBkPOlKuJFaffUCOKDns87Iqg4zovHnf-zs/edit#gid=554805545

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