aaai-review-process

1# AAAI Review Process
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3Use this to plan around AAAI review rather than treating it as a generic OpenReview rebuttal.
4Reopen the current review-process page and author FAQ before advising on timing or strategy.
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6## Process model
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8- AAAI main technical track uses double-blind reviewing.
9- AAAI-27 uses a two-phase review process. Phase 1 allocates three reviewers — two human reviews
10  supplemented by one non-decisional AI-generated review. Papers with sufficiently negative reviews
11  are rejected before author feedback (AAAI-27: notified 2026-09-24).
12- Papers continuing to Phase 2 receive additional reviews, up to five in total, and one author
13  feedback phase (AAAI-27: 2026-10-19 to 10-25, final decisions 2026-11-30). Phase 2 reviewers are
14  not shown the Phase 1 reviews until they have submitted their own — so a Phase 2 review is an
15  independent read, not a reaction to the earlier ones.
16- Final decisions were made through reviewer discussion and senior program committee oversight,
17  not by the AI review.
18- Author feedback is short and constrained; it is mainly for correcting misunderstandings, not
19  replacing the paper.
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21## Author strategy
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23- Reduce Phase 1 reject risk before submission by making contribution, evidence, and checklist
24  compliance obvious.
25- When reviews arrive, distinguish human-review claims, AI-review errors, and AC/SPC decision
26  questions.
27- Use rebuttal to resolve the highest-impact factual issue under the character limit.
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