By name: icml-submission description: Use when auditing an ICML main-track submission for OpenReview, LaTeX formatting, 8-page body, anonymity, supplementary material, impact statement, dual submission, concurrent ICML submissions, reciprocal reviewing, and LLM/prompt-injection policy compliance.
ICML Submission
Use this for a final ICML submission audit. ICML rules are annual; reopen the current CFP, Author Instructions, OpenReview group, style files, example paper, FAQ, and LLM-review policy before giving submission-ready advice.
Submission checks
- Confirm the target is main-track research paper, not position paper, workshop, tutorial, expo, or Journal-to-Conference. Position papers use a separate call and OpenReview site.
- Verify OpenReview account readiness for all authors before the relevant deadline. ICML 2026 freezes the author list after the abstract deadline.
- Check that the PDF uses the current ICML LaTeX style. ICML 2026 provides no support for non-LaTeX typesetting.
- Enforce the current main-body limit. The 2026 submission body limit is 8 pages, followed by references and appendices in the same PDF.
- Check the PDF file-size limit and all required OpenReview fields.
- Confirm double-blind compliance in the paper, appendices, supplementary manuscripts, code/data ZIPs, anonymous repositories, filenames, metadata, acknowledgments, grant numbers, and links.
- Include the impact statement in the required place for main-track papers.
ICML-specific desk-reject risks
- Main body over the page limit.
- Non-anonymized paper, appendix, code, data, repository, or supplementary manuscript.
- Missing or late abstract/full-paper submission.
- Dual submission to another archival venue at the full-paper deadline.
- Prompt injection or review-manipulation text.
- Template modifications that create unfair space.
- Reciprocal reviewer or LLM-review policy violations tied to the paper.
Concurrent ICML submissions
Treat related submissions by overlapping author sets as prior work. If a reasonable reviewer would expect the related paper in the related-work section, cite it anonymously, explain the difference, and include the anonymized PDF in supplementary material.
Pre-deadline audit sequence
Run these in order, because each later check assumes the earlier one passed.
| Order | Check | Pass condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Track | Main research paper, not Position Papers or workshop |
| 2 | LaTeX style | Current ICML template, unmodified margins |
| 3 | Page limit | Body within the 2026 8-page limit, references and appendices after |
| 4 | Anonymity | No author, repo, path, grant, or link leak in PDF or supplement |
| 5 | OpenReview fields | Code URL, impact statement, policy labels complete |
| 6 | Dual submission | No archival overlap at the full-paper deadline |
Worked vignette: auditing the optimizer submission
The adaptive-optimizer paper passes track and style, but the body runs long once the proof sketch is inlined; the fix is moving the full proof to the same-PDF appendix and keeping only the theorem in the body. The anonymous code ZIP still contains a cluster username in a launch script, a desk-reject risk, so it is scrubbed before upload. Re-verify the page limit, file-size cap, and policy labels against the current CFP.
Output format
[Submission readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Track] Main / position / workshop / other
[Blocking ICML checks] <OpenReview/LaTeX/page limit/anonymity/supplement/impact/dual-submission>
[Concurrent-submission risk] none / cite anonymously / reroute or withdraw
[Highest desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix list] <ordered fixes before submission>