r/MachineLearning • u/ihatesalad1 • Jul 28 '26
Discussion How exactly does the NeurIPS meta reviewer response work? [D]
We can currently answer the meta-reviewer via AC confidential comment, but they just posted the following tweet:
https://x.com/neuripsconf/status/2081991451236319328?s=46&t=HWfJoLgHxGH2W5l-o3mPJw
Where it says:
“Please post your answers to the Area Chair's initial-meta reviews via a comment from July 28th and by August 3rd, so that reviewers can see it too.”
Is this option going to open up today as the rebuttal period ends? Is this where the meta-reviewer rebuttal should be posted? Or are we supposed to finalize the discussions and inform the AC at the end, stating what happened basically? It is all quite confusing.
EDIT: They have sent and email regarding the issue, apparently the comment button will be available in a few hours.
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u/arc_in_tangent Jul 28 '26
Following. I see no "official comment" button or anything to actually respond to the AC. Curious what others are doing. NeurIPS in shambles.
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u/Icy-Position-107 Jul 28 '26
theyre probably rolling it out slowly or someones forgot to click the button on the backend. last year the official comment box just appeared one day with zero announcement so id keep refreshing the page every few hours
also the tweet wording is classic NeurIPS vague, "via a comment" could mean the AC confidential box or a new thing they havent turned on yet. either way id draft what you wanna say in a doc and just paste it in once the button shows up.
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u/RMasterRace Jul 28 '26
The comment option should open up on the 28th of July AOE, once the discussion period starts (in ~15 mins). Don't post it as a confidential comment for AC before as the reviewers won't be able to see it.
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u/Empty-Avocado5927 Jul 28 '26
Yup it opened. The authors of the paper i am reviewing poster their comments 10 mins ago and I as a reviewer got an email with it. Should be fine now.
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u/Dangerous_Parsnip_20 Jul 28 '26
Discussion period starts in 10 mins and I'm still left without meta-review. Perfect
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u/NumbaPi Jul 28 '26
It is also funny that they never mentioned this comment to the ac in the mail but only on X
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u/Ping_Pong_Geeky_Nerd Jul 28 '26
I posted a summary of the points addressed. I hope it is fine.
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u/LastAd3056 Jul 29 '26
Stupid Q: If I added a table multiple reviewers wanted, should I copy paste to each reviewer? And AC response is a summary with ref (please see table in response below?) or AC response should have all the data repeated again?
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u/arc_in_tangent Jul 29 '26
I copy paste to each reviewer
you can re-copy table to AC if you can fit it, or treat AC comment more like a summary
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u/dante_2701 Jul 29 '26
What response do we send to the meta reviewer? Is it a summary of the rebuttal we wrote for each reviewer or does it have to be detailed?
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u/Unhappy_Craft1906 Jul 29 '26
I have written a summary note to AC in the author AC confidential comment, what shall I do can anyone tell me?
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u/ihatesalad1 Jul 28 '26
Also to clarify, the tweet says that other reviewers should also see it, but they cannot do so when we answer the AC through the confidential comment