🔥 Gearing Up for AAAI 2026: What You Need to Know to Win the Game
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Update: AAAI 2026 Deadline Confirmed & Earlier Than Expected!
As predicted, the submission deadline for AAAI 2026 has been officially announced, and it's significantly earlier! Mark your calendars:
- Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Full Paper Deadline: July 7, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Supplementary Material and Code: July 10, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Notification of Phase 1 Rejections: September 8, 2025
- Author Feedback Window: September 28-30, 2025
- Final Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 3, 2025
Quick Tips Recap:
- Continue using OpenReview (no third-party links or PDFs).
- Storytelling is key: craft a clear, compelling narrative around your results.
- Double-check your submission for consistency, clarity, and no "hard bugs."
- Markdown tools (like HackMD) remain highly recommended for collaborative writing.
Time to ramp up! If you're targeting AAAI 2026, your research ideas should already be shaping up. Let's start crafting those winning stories!
Good luck, everyone!
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Update: AAAI 2026 Deadline Confirmed & Earlier Than Expected!
As predicted, the submission deadline for AAAI 2026 has been officially announced, and it's significantly earlier! Mark your calendars:
- Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Full Paper Deadline: July 7, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Supplementary Material and Code: July 10, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Notification of Phase 1 Rejections: September 8, 2025
- Author Feedback Window: September 28-30, 2025
- Final Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 3, 2025
Quick Tips Recap:
- Continue using OpenReview (no third-party links or PDFs).
- Storytelling is key: craft a clear, compelling narrative around your results.
- Double-check your submission for consistency, clarity, and no "hard bugs."
- Markdown tools (like HackMD) remain highly recommended for collaborative writing.
Time to ramp up! If you're targeting AAAI 2026, your research ideas should already be shaping up. Let's start crafting those winning stories!
Good luck, everyone!
@cocktailfreedom said in
Gearing Up for AAAI 2026: What You Need to Know to Win the Game:Update: AAAI 2026 Deadline Confirmed & Earlier Than Expected!
As predicted, the submission deadline for AAAI 2026 has been officially announced, and it's significantly earlier! Mark your calendars:
- Abstract Deadline: June 30, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Full Paper Deadline: July 7, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Supplementary Material and Code: July 10, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC-12
- Notification of Phase 1 Rejections: September 8, 2025
- Author Feedback Window: September 28-30, 2025
- Final Acceptance/Rejection Notification: November 3, 2025
Quick Tips Recap:
- Continue using OpenReview (no third-party links or PDFs).
- Storytelling is key: craft a clear, compelling narrative around your results.
- Double-check your submission for consistency, clarity, and no "hard bugs."
- Markdown tools (like HackMD) remain highly recommended for collaborative writing.
Time to ramp up! If you're targeting AAAI 2026, your research ideas should already be shaping up. Let's start crafting those winning stories!
Good luck, everyone!
AAAI 26 has announced a extension of the submission ddl from June 30 to July 25! It is a big-step postpone!
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The time table has just been updated again!
July 25, 2025
Abstracts due at 11:59 PM UTC-12August 1, 2025
Full papers due at 11:59 PM UTC-12August 4, 2025
Supplementary material and code due by 11:59 PM UTC-12September 8, 2025
Notification of Phase 1 rejectionsOctober 2-8, 2025
Author feedback windowNovember 3, 2025
Notification of final acceptance or rejection (Main Technical Track) -
If you're preparing a submission for AAAI 2026, check out this unified LaTeX template:
https://github.com/lizhemin15/AAAI-2026-Latex-UnifiedIt combines both the anonymous submission and camera-ready versions into a single
.texfile with a simple one-line toggle:\def\aaaianonymous{true} % Toggle for anonymous/camera-ready -
Test your paper's fate at AAAI on our review tool
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AAAI 2026 drops a bombshell policy update!
Yes, it’s true — Mandatory Mutual Reviewing is officially here. Starting this year, every single submitting author is required to bid on 50 papers. You read that right: 50.
Wrist pain incoming
It’s no secret that submission numbers for top-tier AI conferences have exploded in recent years. Reviewer shortage is now a crisis. In response, the AAAI 2026 committee has launched what many are calling a bold (and desperate) move: drag everyone into the reviewer pool.
Word on the street is that many researchers are already grumbling. Some are even publicly calling for a boycott of the mandatory bid process on social media.
What does this mean in practice?
• Submit a paper? You’ll be bidding on 50 others.
• No exceptions. Everyone participates.
• Large research groups might be fine, but this is going to hit solo authors and small labs hard.Let’s just hope this doesn’t turn into a collective all-nighter crisis when everyone is frantically bidding at the last minute…
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Some guide sent today to reviewers (PC member)
Dear XXXX,
As a member of the Program Committee, you play a critical role in the success of the AAAI-26 conference . Now that we’ve released Phase 1 paper assignments, we rely on reviewers like you to carefully read papers and provide an informed review of the strengths and weaknesses of the papers. Such reviews are then used to decide which papers will pass into Phase 2 of the review process.
Reviews for Phase 1 are due on Monday, September 1 (anywhere on earth). If you anticipate any problems meeting this deadline, please notify the SPC for this paper by creating an “official comment” and set “readers” to the SPC in OpenReview ASAP. You can find more detailed information about the entire review process in the Instructions For AAAI 2026 Reviewers.
The AAAI-26 paper matching process takes into account many inputs, including paper keywords, your OpenReview profile, your DBLP record, your paper bids, etc. In some cases, the papers you are matched with may not be a perfect fit for your expertise. Because AAAI-26 is a very large conference that encompasses many types of AI, please do your best. If you wish to pull in an additional colleague to help you review the paper, please check with your SPC first (see instructions above on how to create an official comment). If you do use a subreviewer, please remember that you are responsible for all content in the review, and you should still take part in the Phase 2 discussion (if the paper proceeds to Phase 2).
For those of you who have not reviewed for AAAI recently, or just want some additional reviewing tips, please check out the “Guidelines On Writing Helpful Reviews” (also included in the Instructions For AAAI 2026 Reviewers).
As we go through the paper review process, please ensure you are familiar with AAAI-26’s ethics policies listed in the Ethical Guidelines for AAAI-26 Reviewers.
If you have any concerns regarding ethics, such as authors or reviewers breaking anonymity, reviewers using LLMs, inappropriate pressure to change ratings, etc., you may report them to our ethics chairs through this Google Form.
Potential ethics violations will be investigated, now or in the future, by the AAAI-26 Ethics Chairs and/or the AAAI standing Ethics Committee. The chairs or committee will impose penalties, depending on the severity of the infraction. We must emphasize that there is no time limit on when ethics violations can be investigated and sanctions imposed.
Thank you again for all your work in making AAAI-26 a success!
(If you have any questions or suggestions, please continue to contact us via workflowchairs26@aaai.zendesk.com.)
Sincerely, The AAAI-26 Program Chairs
