ICML 2026 final justifications remain open through April 12

Hot take: yes, it is still open right now, but the deadline is effectively the end of April 12, 2026 AoE, not “whenever the meta-review is due.”

• –ICML’s reviewer instructions explicitly say reviewers must enter a “final justification” after the authors’ response/rebuttal phase: https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026/ReviewerInstructions
• –ICML’s published 2026 dates show the AC-reviewer discussion period runs from March 31 to April 12, 2026: https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026/Dates
• –Inference: because the final justification is part of the post-rebuttal reviewer workflow and the AC-reviewer discussion window ends on April 12, the safe reading is that reviewers can still post it until that deadline.
• –So the Reddit claim is basically right if it means “until the end of the AC-reviewer discussion period,” but not beyond that.