KDD 2025 2nd-round Review Results: How Did Your Paper Do?

[lelecao]

@magicparrots

So sorry to hear that — sounds like a solid paper.

For my case,
One reviewer gave two 2s just because they didn’t see the value of improving efficiency or where it would be useful, even though that’s the whole point of many ML contributions. Another reviewer didn’t understand the paper and asked for line-by-line comments on pseudocode. That’s just disheartening.

Also noticed each review response is limited to 2500 characters. Does anyone know if we can reply in multiple stacked comments?

[Kevin Cris]

https://www.zhihu.com/question/12035973262/answers/updated
some data points from Chinese researcher community

[Hu8kKo34]

Anyone knows the likelihood of an NLP (LLM agent and its evaluation on many public datasets) work accepted to KDD, either main or applied data science track?

[Nilesh Verma]

what are the chances of acceptance in KDD feb, here is my score

Relevance: 3.5 (based on 4, 3, 4, 3, 4)
Novelty: 3.0 (based on 4, 3, 2, 3, 2)
Technical Quality: 3.0 (based on 3, 3, 3, 3, 3)
Presentation: 2.8 (based on 3, 3, 3, 2, 3)
Reproducibility: 3.0 (based on 3, 3, 3, 3, 3)
Reviewer Confidence: 3.4 (based on 3, 4, 3, 4, 3)

[Sylvia]

@Nilesh-Verma from what I hear, Novelty and TQ (combined with confidence) are two most important dimension for making the final decision. I think TQ scores are pretty good; Novelty scores are not bad either. If rebuttal can increase one of the "2"s to 3, then the chance of getting an acceptance will be even higher.

[root]

I hereby paste the historical acceptance rate of KDD research tracks

Conference	Long Paper Acceptance Rate
KDD'14	14.6% (151/1036)
KDD'15	19.5% (160/819)
KDD'16	13.7% (142/1115)
KDD'17	17.4% (130/748)
KDD'18	18.4% (181/983) (107 orals and 74 posters)
KDD'19	14.2% (170/1200) (110 orals and 60 posters)
KDD'20	16.9% (216/1279)
KDD'22	15.0% (254/1695)
KDD'23	22.1% (313/1416)
KDD'24	20.0% (411/2046)

Note that KDD'24 accepted 151 ADS track papers from 738 submissions!

[Sylvia]

The KDD PC just opened the comment phase until Apr 18 (AoE). You can respond to reviewer follow-ups or raise concerns to AC/SAC via the Official Comment button.

️ A few don’ts:

• No URLs — they’ll auto-delete your comment.
• No bypassing rebuttal limits — don’t treat comments as extra rebuttal space.
• Don’t badger reviewers — 1 ping is enough.
• Stay respectful — tone matters.

Good luck everyone

[Hsi Ping Li]

@river Hi river,

Excuse me, do you know if these scores are the final scores after the rebuttal? Really appreciate it if you could provide more information about this

[Hsi Ping Li]

@Nilesh-Verma Hi Nilesh, I am sure the scores of your paper are higher than those of most authors. Congs. Besides, did your reviewers increase their ratings for your paper in the rebuttal process?

[river]

@Hsi-Ping-Li

This the best effort scores, meaning I take the latest available scores reported in the community. If they are updated by the authors after rebuttal, then I take that, otherwise I would assume the scores did not change.

For the data points with accept/reject outcome, I think all of them are post-rebuttal scores.

[Hsi Ping Li]

@magicparrots

Hi magicparrots!

did the reviewers raise their scores for your paper after the rebuttal process?
I also submitted a paper about GNN, and only one reviewer out of five raised 1 score for my paper

[Hsi Ping Li]

@river Many thanks for your details!

[root]

Stats from official email:

The Research Track of KDD 2025 (February Cycle) received 1988 submissions, with an overall acceptance rate of ~18.4%. All submissions received at least three reviews, while most had four or five. Area Chairs provided meta-reviews and preliminary recommendations, which were deliberated further by the Senior Area Chairs and decided on by the Program Chairs.

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A submission rejected from the Research Track may not be resubmitted within 12 months to the KDD Research Track (i.e., the earliest resubmission date of your paper to the KDD research track is February 2026).