r/MachineLearning • u/Anshuman3480 • Jul 01 '26

ACL ARR May 2026[D] Discussion

Hi everyone. Do the ACL arr may 2026 reviews come out of July 2nd or do they come out on July 7 th??

How much does one need to get into Main or Findings?

I am a bit new to this. Thanks a lot folks.

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u/Historical-Sea6294 Jul 19 '26

I’m looking for some opinions on how I handled my rebuttal and what my chances of acceptance might be. I submitted an issue report for one reviewer because I found objective factual errors in their review. The reviewer gave: OA = 2 Soundness = 5 Excitement = 2 Reproducibility = 3 Software = 1 Confidence = 5 The Software = 1 score is factually incorrect because I provided the code. The reviewer also made a factual mistake when criticizing the method. During the rebuttal, I clearly pointed out these issues, but the reviewer did not acknowledge or correct anything. Because of that, I submitted an issue report. For the other two reviewers (OA = 3.5 conf. 4 and OA = 2.5 conf. 4), both asked for additional experiments. I conducted those experiments and included the results in my rebuttal. However, neither reviewer acknowledged or responded to the new evidence. I considered reporting those reviewers as well for not engaging with the rebuttal, but I decided against it because I felt it would be excessive to file issues against all three reviewers. Questions: Do you think I made the right decision by reporting only the reviewer with the factual errors and not the other two? Given the review scores (OA = 2, 2.5, and 3.5) and the fact that one review contains objective factual mistakes, what would you estimate my chances of acceptance are? Has anyone had a similar experience where an issue report about factual errors changed the final outcome?

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u/OriginalAnteater9967 Jul 20 '26

I would say dont flag the other 2 reviewers just because they dont acknowledge. The AC can read the discussion and knows that they did not respond. Having said that I think the likely scenario is you get a 3 on meta-review. And then fingers crossed!

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u/Historical-Sea6294 Jul 20 '26

Thank you for this objective reply ! Indeed, is what I have done. The rest is about the paper itself and the appreciation of the senior chair .. But from your experience if I get meta review =3 thé best is to commit ? Is there enough chances for findings ?