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// 48d agoPOLICY REGULATION
ICML 2026 final justifications remain open through April 12
ICML’s official 2026 reviewer instructions require a post-rebuttal final justification, and the conference timeline shows the AC-reviewer discussion period running through April 12, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth). Since today is April 9, 2026, the window is still open, but it is close to closing and does not extend past the end of that discussion period.
// ANALYSIS
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.
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DISCOVERED
48d ago
2026-04-09
PUBLISHED
48d ago
2026-04-09
RELEVANCE
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