ijcai-submission

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Use when auditing an IJCAI or IJCAI-ECAI main-track submission for Chairing Tool readiness, abstract and author-information deadlines, page limits, double-blind anonymity, supplementary files, reproducibility, resubmission information, author limits, dual-submission policy, and LLM-use policy.

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IJCAI Submission

Use this for an IJCAI main-track submission audit. Reopen the current conference CFP, Author Kit, FAQ, reproducibility page, submission site, and conflict policy before giving deadline-ready advice.

Submission audit

Confirm the target program: main track, one of the special tracks, Survey Track, or a non-main program. Track rules and deadlines can differ.
Verify Chairing Tool account access, title, abstract, author details, ORCID status, author confirmations, keywords, conflicts, and any Primary Paper Initiative fee exposure.
Apply the current author kit. IJCAI-ECAI 2026 main-track papers used a 9-page total limit: 7 pages for body text, figures, and tables, plus up to 2 pages for references.
Check that no acknowledgements or contribution statements appear in the anonymous review version, and that the optional ethics statement sits where current rules permit.
Enforce double-blind anonymity in PDF content, metadata, filenames, supplement, code, paths, URLs, and resubmission files.
Submit supplementary material and resubmission information by the full-paper deadline; do not rely on rebuttal-time uploads.
Confirm the per-author submission limit, dual-submission policy, and last-12-month rejection disclosure before upload.
Apply the current LLM-use policy. For IJCAI-ECAI 2026, style/language polishing was allowed, but LLM-written manuscript text was a desk-reject risk.

Blocking risks

Missing abstract registration or missing author information.
Overlength PDF or template manipulation.
Identity leakage in the paper, supplement, code, data, paths, or metadata.
Missing required resubmission information for a recent rejected version.
Concurrent formal archival submission.
LLM-generated paper text, hallucinated references, or unsupported claims.

Desk-reject risk matrix

IJCAI screens a large submission volume and can reject on mechanical grounds before any scientific review. Sort each risk by whether it is auto-fatal at intake.

Risk	Severity	Pre-upload check
Missing abstract registration	Fatal	Abstract filed by its earlier deadline
Overlength or template manipulation	Fatal	Page count and Author Kit style verified
Anonymity leak in PDF/metadata/code	Fatal	Names, URLs, filenames scrubbed
Missing resubmission file	Fatal	Anonymized rejected version attached
Concurrent archival submission	Fatal	No venue overlap during review
LLM-written manuscript text	High	Only policy-allowed polishing

Worked vignette: a multi-agent paper at intake

A multi-agent RL paper is ready scientifically but its anonymized PDF embeds the lab name in a figure caption and its code ZIP keeps an institutional path. Both are anonymity leaks that can desk-reject the paper before review. Fix order: scrub the caption and metadata, re-zip with relative paths, confirm the page count, verify the abstract was registered on time, and confirm no concurrent archival submission.

Reviewer/chair pushback and the venue-specific fix

"Exceeds the limit." Compress to the body limit and move overflow to the appendix; do not shrink margins, fonts, or spacing to fake compliance.

Output format

[IJCAI readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[Track] main / special / survey / other
[Blocking checks] <page/anonymity/authors/ORCID/supplement/resubmission/dual-submission/LLM>
[Highest desk-reject risk] <one issue>
[Fix order] <ordered fixes before submission>