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micfilter t1_iv459nm wrote

Reply to [D] ICLR 2023 reviews are out. How was your experience ? by dasayan05

  1. 5,5,3
  2. Not sure
  3. I have so many questions!
    1. Why? I'm an unaffiliated independent researcher, solo author, and I have never submitted to an AI conf before... so I have no idea what I'm doing.
    2. My main question is: a large concern of all 3 reviewers seems to be that I did not clearly state my contributions, nor did I contextual my contributions in prior literature.
      1. One way to address both of these would be to cite my prior workshop (also on arXiv) work.
      2. I didn't do this for the conference submission because there is significant overlap between the works, which would 100% deanonymize me. I even used the same title for the 2nd worksop paper as this conference paper (that was actually a 4am mistake to not update the conference paper title).
      3. So, I'm not sure if I should just go ahead and cite the workshop work using "a 3rd person narrative", or if this is a good question for the AC (see below), or totally n00b and kinda pathetic.
    3. Regarding asking questions for the AC, ICLR states: "In case you have any questions or concerns connected to your submission that are not addressed in the Author Guide / FAQ, your Area Chair is your first point of contact, and you can message them through the “official comment” feature on Open Review."
      1. Does anyone know if these "official comments" are viewable by the reviewers?
      2. How seriously should I pursue alt paths for finding the info before asking the AC?
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