ijcai-author-response

Business

Use when drafting IJCAI or IJCAI-ECAI author responses under the official one-page template, concise-response guidance, no-new-results constraints, code-link restrictions, factual-error triage, pressing-question triage, and confidential unethical-review channel.

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IJCAI Author Response

Use this after IJCAI reviews are released. Reopen the current Author's Response FAQ and response template before drafting; rebuttal rules are cycle-specific.

Triage

Respond only when a reviewer asks a pressing question, when a factual error could drive rejection, or when an unethical review needs confidential escalation.
Do not use the response to complain about tone, scores, reviewer identity, or broad disagreement without a decision-relevant correction.
Keep the public PDF response short. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 limited ordinary responses to one page using the official response template.
Do not upload new code, new links, new experiments, or new results. Clarifying figures or examples are acceptable only when they explain material already in the submission.
Use the confidential box only for unethical-review concerns; it is not visible to ordinary PC reviewers.
If a late review arrives during the response period, follow the current FAQ for extension requests rather than guessing.

Compression pattern

State the decision-critical correction.
Anchor it to the submitted section, table, figure, theorem, appendix, or supplement.
Answer the requested clarification and stop.
If needed, add a camera-ready clarification promise without adding new evidence.

Triage table: respond or stay silent

The one-page budget forces ruthless selection. The response is not a dialogue, and phase-1 summary-reject papers usually get no response, so reserve the page for decision-changing items.

Reviewer point	Respond?	How
Pressing question that could flip the score	Yes	Point to the submitted location
Factual error driving rejection	Yes	Correct precisely; anchor to section/table/theorem
"Add experiment X"	No new results	Promise a camera-ready note or cite existing evidence
Tone, score, broad disagreement	No	Do not spend budget relitigating
Suspected unethical review	Confidential box	Not the public PDF

Worked vignette: a planning paper rebuttal

A planning paper draws one strong review and one that wrongly claims the optimality proof assumes unit costs. That misreading could drive rejection, so it earns space: cite the assumption already stated in the submitted theorem and point to the appendix proof, without a new result. A second reviewer asks for an extra benchmark family; since no new experiments may be added, promise a camera-ready note and reference the closest existing table. The complaint about presentation tone gets no words.

Reviewer pushback and the venue-specific fix

"You added new results in the response." Remove them; clarify only what the submission already supports, since new evidence is disallowed.
"Response argues the score, not a fact." Refocus on the one decision-critical correction.
"Reviewer was unethical." Use the confidential channel, not the public response.

Output format

[Response budget] <pages used / current limit>
[Eligible reason] pressing question / factual error / unethical review
[Draft response] <IJCAI-ready text>
[Evidence anchor] <submitted location>
[Do-not-include list] <new results, code links, broad complaints, identity leaks>