[R] Which place should I commit to ACL SRW or ICML workshop or AACL?

Reddit r/MachineLearning / 3/27/2026

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Key Points

  • A researcher received an ARR review set on March 12 with an overall meta-review score around 2.5, including harsh feedback that the commenter felt was worsened by apparent LLM-related factual mistakes.
  • They believe their work may become outdated because the topic moved quickly after a prior revision cycle, reducing confidence about acceptance chances at ACL/EMNLP as a next step.
  • They are considering three commit options: ACL SRW or an ICML workshop (both coming online soon), or waiting for AACL later in the year (around August), which they worry may be risky but could still be eligible under ARR guidelines.
  • The commenter notes they could address reviewer concerns via improved writing/presentation and additional ablation studies, but is unsure about repeatedly revising and resubmitting to satisfy potentially new tough reviewers.
  • They ask whether waiting for AACL (conference) is worth it compared with committing to a workshop venue like ACL SRW or an ICML workshop publication.

Hello everyone,

I got ARR review set on March 12 with submitted paper. OA 3, 2.5, 2.5 and 2. Meta review is 2.5

the harsh (2) guy criticised the most but he overused LLM so around 4 times he made mistakes (wrong facts) in his reviews.

However, generally the 2.5 guys are also show agreements in incremental work/novelty.

Actually this is the revised submission (after October cycle last year), the topic moved too fast and I think my work would soon become outdated.

with metareview 2.5, I chose not to commit to ACL or EMNLP incomming as the chance are too low for Finding.

Now I have 3 options, either submit/commit to ACL SRW or ICML workshop or AACL.

AACL I guess it would open pretty late this year (around August) so it make me nervous to wait. But ARR guideline might still consider my March result set eligible for commiting to AACL in August.

Whereas, ACL SRW or ICML workshop would open soon next month which I don't have to wait too long but my professor told me to consider it carefully as it is just workshop publication.

I think I can put some notes like "revise many problems in writing/presentation quality and put 2 more ablations study to address March reviews concerns" to commit for those. But I won't revise and resub because who know some other "tough" reviewers again tell me to add more "up-to-date" baseline again and again.

Should I wait for AACL (conference, not workshop), or ACL SRW or ICML workshop is not that bad ?

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