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ICML 2026 Author Instructions 

 

Submitting Paper to ICML

 

Paper Submissions

Submitted papers are composed of a main body, which can be up to eight pages long, followed by any number of pages for references and appendices, all in a single PDF file. (Final versions of accepted papers will be published in the same way, with references and appendices included.)  The submission PDF has a maximum size of 50MB while the camera ready version will be limited to 20MB. The required format of the papers is specified in the LaTeX style files and the example paper. There is no support for any typesetting software other than LaTeX. All submissions must be anonymized and follow the required format; otherwise, they will automatically be rejected. In particular, any submission whose main body goes over the 8 page limit will be automatically rejected. (The final version of each accepted paper will be allowed an extra page. See the example paper for further information.)

Authors have the option of uploading extra files as Supplementary Material to provide further details of their work (e.g., code/data that supports experimental findings, other (anonymized) papers of the authors whose results are needed by the submitted paper). It is entirely up to the reviewers to decide whether they wish to consult any of the appendices in the submitted paper or this Supplementary Material. Therefore, if there is material critical to the evaluation of the paper, it needs to be included in the main body of the paper. See below for more details.

Authors are encouraged to submit code to foster reproducibility. Reproducibility of results and easy availability of code will be taken into account in the decision-making process. Authors should not include links to non-anonymized repositories; instead, they should submit the code base itself or anonymized repositories.

Authors will be asked to confirm that their submissions are in accord with the ICML code of conduct.

Submissions will be handled through OpenReview. See the Call for Papers for important dates and deadlines, including the suggested deadline for creating an account on OpenReview.

 

Supplementary Material

ICML 2026 supports the submission of two kinds of supplementary material: supplementary manuscripts and code/data. In particular, if an anonymous reference is made in the paper, authors should upload the referenced papers, so that the reviewers can check the results in the referred paper. The supplementary material must also be anonymized. Note that traditional text appendices to the paper need not be submitted as a separate Supplementary Material; as mentioned above, unlimited appendices are allowed in the main submission file of a paper.

The supplementary code can be submitted as either a zip file or a pdf. For code submissions, we expect authors to anonymize the submitted code. This means that author names and licenses should be removed. Submission of code through anonymous GitHub repositories is also allowed; however, they have to be on a branch that will not be modified after the submission deadline. Please enter the GitHub link in a standalone text file in a submitted zip file. Data submissions (provided that the authors have the right to do so) in anonymous repositories are welcome.

For accepted papers, the originally submitted manuscript and supplementary material will become publicly available on OpenReview. However, there is no option to provide supplementary material with the final, camera-ready version appearing in the proceedings. If authors wish to refer to supplementary code or data in their final version, they are responsible for providing an archival link to a suitable repository.

There is no separate deadline for Supplementary Material: All supplementary material must be submitted by the same deadline as the paper submission.

 

Double-Blind Reviewing

Reviewing for ICML 2026 is double-blind: reviewers will not know the authors’ identities and vice versa. Detailed instructions for anonymizing the submission are contained in the aforementioned example paper. In brief, authors should refer to their prior work in the third person wherever possible. They should refrain from including acknowledgements, grant numbers, or links to public code repositories in their submissions.

Previously published papers with substantial overlap written by the authors must be cited in such a way so as to preserve author anonymity. Differences relative to these earlier papers must be explained in the text of the submission. For example: “This work builds on [reference], which showed that…”. If an anonymous reference is needed in the paper (e.g., for referring to the authors’ own work that is under review elsewhere), include the referred work as Supplementary Material as noted above. Note that anonymizing the submissions is mandatory, and papers that explicitly or implicitly reveal the authors’ identities will be rejected.

It may be possible for reviewers to deduce the authors’ identities by using external resources, such as technical reports published on the internet or elsewhere. The availability of such external resources that may allow reviewers to infer the authors’ identities does not constitute a breach of the double-blind submission policy. Reviewers are explicitly asked not to seek out this information.

Please see the Call for Papers for additional policies concerning double-blind reviewing.

 

Reviewing and Author Response

Submitted papers will not be publicly accessible during the review period. Only accepted papers will be made public through OpenReview. Reviewers are forbidden from sharing papers they receive for review, or using the material in any way other than to provide their review.

After initial reviews, authors will have the opportunity to respond to reviewer comments. During this response period, authors can see the reviews and respond to their content, but these responses will only be visible to the reviewers after this period. During the subsequent discussion period, reviewers and authors will be able to engage in one additional round of communication, to follow up on any remaining questions or concerns.

Any of the authors of a paper can enter/edit the responses. As reviewing is double-blind, the response should not contain information that could reveal the authors’ identities. In addition, the response should not contain non-anonymized URLs, URLs for personal websites, or “shortened” URLs (e.g., as provided via tinyurl, which could log a reviewer’s IP). Reviewers are not expected to follow external URLs in the response.

Keep in mind that there is no need to respond to every minor question or suggestion for improvement. Rather, the response is a good opportunity for addressing issues like a reviewer’s uncertainty about a point, a reviewer making an incorrect assumption, or a reviewer misunderstanding some part of the paper. Responses that use professional and polite language are generally the most effective.

We aim to provide three reviews for every paper, although the precise number may vary. The reviewer IDs uniquely specify the reviewers of the paper but are otherwise arbitrary. The structure of the author response is up to the authors. It is typical to organize the response by reviewers and to use the reviewer IDs to refer to the particular reviews.

There is no option to upload a revised version of the paper during the author feedback period.

 

Camera-Ready Papers and Post-Conference Revisions

Authors of accepted papers will be able to upload non-anonymized “camera-ready” versions of their paper. Authors may choose to (but are not required to) make changes as suggested by the reviewers, as well as other improvements, so long as the essential content of the paper remains unchanged compared to what the reviewers have seen.

Authors must upload a camera-ready version of the paper by the camera-ready deadline prior to the conference; this version of the paper will be made publicly available through OpenReview after this deadline. In addition, to improve accountability, the originally submitted manuscript and supplementary material will also be published on OpenReview, alongside the anonymized reviews, meta-reviews, rebuttal, and reviewer-author discussion.

After the conference, authors will be able to (but are not required to) revise the camera-ready version of their paper (e.g., to incorporate any feedback received during the conference). These revisions must be made by the post-conference revision deadline. After this deadline, the latest camera-ready version of the paper will be published in the ICML 2026 proceedings through PMLR.

 

Additional Policies

Please see the Call for Papers for additional policies concerning dual submissions, use of generative AI tools (including LLMs), ethical conduct for peer review, impact statements, and lay summaries.

 

Accessibility

Authors are encouraged to make their submissions as accessible as possible for everyone including people with disabilities and sensory or neurological differences. For more guidance, please consult Making Accessible Papers and Talks.

 

Camera-ready Instructions for Accepted Papers

Camera-ready submissions for both main track and position track are due on May 28, 11:59pm AOE. Please make sure to follow the steps below before this deadline to avoid your paper being withdrawn from ICML. The key difference between main track and position track is that position track does not require an impact statement.

 

Detailed guidelines

  1. You must fill out the In-person Presentation Questionnaire by May 11, 11:59pm AOE. It is available in the Author Console under Author Tasks (in main track or position track), or directly from the paper's forum. Both in-person and proceedings-only papers will receive the same level of recognition by ICML.
     
  2. Registration requirements:
    • For all in-person papers, at least one author must register for the conference with the "Conference" option checked in the registration form (under the "Sessions" list); "Virtual Pass" alone is not sufficient.
    • For all proceedings-only papers, at least one author must register for the conference using either the "Conference" or "Virtual Pass" option.
    • To register for the conference, go to icml.cc and click "Registration 2026". From there, you can log in if you have an existing profile, or create a new profile.
       
  3. Consent forms:
    • For each paper, the PMLR Publication Agreement form should be filled and signed by the corresponding author and uploaded as part of the camera-ready form on OpenReview. Note: Maximum file size of the PMLR Publication Agreement is 10MB.
    • Additionally, at least one author needs to digitally sign the ICML 2026 Publishing Release form, and any author presenting an oral presentation needs to sign the ICML 2026 Recording Release and License form. To sign these forms, log in to icml.cc and go to https://icml.cc/ConsentForm, where you will see your paper(s) and will be able to sign the corresponding forms.
       
  4. Page Limit and File Size Limit:
    • In the camera-ready version, you have an extra page to address reviewer comments, so the length limit of the paper body is 9 pages, followed by any acknowledgements, the impact statement (for main track papers), references, and appendices.
    • Full paper should be provided in PDF format. Maximum file size is 20MB (including appendices). Please reduce the size/quality of large images if you exceed this.
       
  5. Conflict of Interest Disclosure and Impact Statement:
    • New this year: We are asking authors to disclose financial conflicts of interest as described in Peer-review Ethics. Conflicts of interest should be disclosed in a paragraph titled Conflict of Interest Disclosure at the end of introduction. One common case is evaluation of a model developed by the company that employs one or several of the authors. This must be disclosed. However, just being employed by industry is not a conflict in itself (see Disclosing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Camera-Ready Version).
    • Impact statement is mandatory for the main track (see Call for Papers), but not required for the position track.
       
  6. Ensure that all your references contain correct bibliographic data.
    • Replace arXiv citations with peer-reviewed papers where possible.
    • As an aid to authors, program chairs have run an automated reference checker. References that could not be verified are listed on OpenReview in the Paper Decision of each submission under the heading Reference Correctness Check. Please verify or fix these references.
    • Please also check that capitalization in your references appears as you intended (for example, use braces like {Markov} in Bibtex entries to make sure that Markov (proper name) keeps its capitalization in the reference).
       
  7. You should include any appendices of the paper as part of the camera-ready PDF. There is NO camera-ready supplementary material of any kind. If you have code or other material that you want the readers to have access to, please upload it to a repository (e.g., GitHub) and include a link in your paper. We also encourage you to include the url link to the code in the optional "code url" box on OpenReview. This will appear on the OpenReview entry of the paper as well as on PMLR.
     
  8. You will be asked to enter a "lay summary" of your paper (also called "plain language summary") in the OpenReview form. For detailed guidance and examples, see ICML 2026 Lay Summaries.
     
  9. Updating Author List, Title, and Abstract:
    • You are allowed to change the author order on the camera-ready submission page, but no author additions or deletions are allowed. Ensure that the order of authors in OpenReview is consistent with that in the camera-ready version.
    • If you have entered an incorrect OpenReview ID for any of the authors, you can update it by emailing program-chairs@icml.cc with the subject line "INCORRECT AUTHOR OpenReview ID". In the body of the email, you must list both the incorrect and corrected OpenReview ID, and all the (correct) authors must be cc-ed on the email.
    • Ensure that author affiliations listed on OpenReview profiles match author affiliations listed in the camera-ready version.
    • You are allowed to change the title and abstract slightly. If you want to change the title significantly with a good reason (for instance, it was suggested by the meta reviewer), then you should get permission from the program chairs.
       
  10. The camera-ready version should be prepared using the ICML 2026 Style File (available in icml2026.zip), with the \usepackage[accepted]{icml2026} option.
     
  11. Your paper must be in US letter size (i.e., not A4 or other sizes).
     
  12. Enter author details as in the TeX file example_paper.tex in icml2026.zip. Check that the affiliations footnote renders correctly. Make sure you have called \printAffiliationsAndNotice{\icmlEqualContribution} if multiple authors have made equal contributions, or \printAffiliationsAndNotice{} otherwise (see comments in the file example_paper.tex near line 120).
     
  13. Check the PDF file of your paper with the ICML format checker. Read the instructions at https://papercheck.icml.cc/papercheck.html, and upload your camera-ready paper for automatic checking of the guidelines (if there are errors, you can upload again until all detected violations are resolved). Upon successful completion of the paper checker, you will obtain a 5-letter submission code which you will enter in the camera-ready form.
     
  14. Upload the required files to the camera-ready form, which you can access via your OpenReview console. Enter your title and abstract in the camera-ready form, exactly matching the paper. You can use TeX math (we suggest sparingly), but no custom macros or other TeX commands. Please make sure that accents, special characters, etc., are entered using TeX commands and not using non-English characters.

Please do not wait until the last day, as fixes might require some time. Pay special attention to the following formatting requirements:

  • The title and section headings should have content words capitalized, not all caps. For instance, "Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence", and not "DEEP LEARNING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" (for further guidance, please see Common Title Capitalization Rules).
  • Abstracts should be a single paragraph and ideally 4-6 sentences.
  • The citation font size should be the same as that in the main body of the paper.
  • This year, there is no Type 3 font check, so you do not have to use TrueType font to pass the check or convert eps figures to png figures to bypass the check. If possible, please use vector graphics (eps or pdf figures) for experimental results such as line plots and bar plots to maximize readability, and only use bitmap graphics for certain illustrations and visualizations that cannot be easily represented by vector graphics.
  • We kindly ask all authors to follow our guidelines for Making Accessible Papers and Talks. In particular, we expect that authors (1) review guidelines for accessibility to color-blind and visually impaired; (2) ensure their bibliography is up-to-date, including up-to-date names and venues; (3) use inclusive and respectful language throughout when talking about people.

After this year's conference, there will be another window where you may upload small corrections to the paper following the feedback received at the conference. More information on this will follow after the conference.

 

Disclosing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Camera-Ready Version

This year, we are asking authors to disclose in their camera-ready version any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that could reasonably be perceived to influence the work, such as industry funding for work that evaluates or promotes the funder’s product, system, or technology. One typical case is when the paper evaluates a model developed by the company that employs one or several of the authors. This must be disclosed. However, just being employed by industry is not a conflict in itself. Conflicts of interest must be disclosed in a paragraph titled Conflict of Interest Disclosure appearing as the last paragraph of introduction (which is typically the first section of a paper). The paragraph should include statements like "The author <author initials> is employed by <company>, which leads the development of <model name>, which was among the ones evaluated in this paper." If you do not have any financial conflicts of interest, do not include this paragraph.

 

 

Retraction Policy

If an author wants to retract their paper after it is accepted, they will need to enter a retraction statement in OpenReview. The retraction statement will be reviewed by the Program Chairs and all authors will be contacted. Once the retraction is confirmed, the paper will remain on OpenReview but its status will be marked as retracted, and the retraction statement will also be publicly visible.