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Submission quotas and reciprocal reviewing

The number of submissions to ICML keeps growing faster than the number of qualified reviewers. To keep the review process fair and informative for all authors, ICML 2027 introduces submission quotas and strengthens its reciprocal reviewing requirement. These rules are similar to those adopted by ICLR 2027.

Submission quotas

  • No author may appear as a co-author on more than 20 submissions.
  • Each author may appear as a co-author on at most one submission in which no author is an eligible reciprocal reviewer (see below). In plain terms: if neither you nor any of your co-authors has published at one of the venues listed below, you may submit at most one paper to ICML 2027. We welcome submissions from researchers who are new to the field, and these submissions are reviewed like all others.

Quotas are checked when abstracts are registered. Authors who exceed a quota will be notified and can fix the problem before the full paper deadline (January 22, 2027). If a quota is still exceeded at the full paper deadline, the program chairs will desk reject excess submissions at random until every author is within the quotas.

Who is an eligible reciprocal reviewer

An author is an eligible reciprocal reviewer if they have at least one paper accepted at one of the following venues by the abstract registration deadline (January 14, 2027):

  • ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, UAI, AISTATS, JMLR, TMLR (including Datasets and Benchmarks tracks), 
  • ACL, EMNLP, EACL, NAACL, IJCNLP-AACL, Computational Linguistics, TACL (including Findings), COLM
  • CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, AAAI, IJCAI, JAIR, 3DV
  • ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL
  • KDD
  • COLT

Other publications associated with these venues do not count. This includes workshop papers, position papers, short papers, system demonstrations, industry papers and blog posts. Eligibility is determined from OpenReview profiles, so all authors must keep their profiles complete and up to date, including their publications or DBLP link. Incorrect profile information may lead to desk rejection.

Reciprocal reviewing requirement

Per-submission requirement: each submission must designate one of its authors as its reciprocal reviewer when the abstract is registered. The designated author must:

  • be an eligible reciprocal reviewer;
  • register as a reviewer for ICML 2027;
  • complete their assigned reviews during the reviewing period (February 24–March 16, 2027).

An author can be designated as the reciprocal reviewer for at most 6 submissions. Submissions in which no author is eligible are exempt from this requirement, but they count toward the one-submission quota above.

Per-author requirement: authors with 3 or more submissions must serve on the program committee of ICML 2027, as a reviewer, area chair or senior area chair. Authors who serve as area chairs, senior area chairs or members of the organizing committee meet this requirement through that role.

Responsibilities and enforcement

Reciprocal reviewers have the same obligations as all other reviewers. They must follow the reviewing guidelines and the LLM policy, submit their reviews on time, and take part in the discussion with authors and area chairs. The program chairs may desk reject the submissions for which an author is the designated reciprocal reviewer if that author:

  • does not submit their reviews;
  • submits reviews of very low quality;
  • violates the LLM policy.

Submissions that do not designate an eligible reciprocal reviewer when one is available among their authors may also be desk rejected.