AAAI Author Response

Use this after AAAI reviews are released. AAAI rebuttal space is scarce: the AAAI-26 FAQ allowed a single 2500-character response, disallowed URLs, and discouraged new results. AAAI-27 has not yet published its own rebuttal FAQ, its author feedback window is 2026-10-19 to 10-25, so treat those limits as the prior cycle's shape and reopen the current FAQ before drafting.

Triage

• Respond to decision-critical factual errors first.
• Address human reviews and AI-generated review points when they affect the SPC/AC decision.
• Do not spend space on tone, score fairness, or reviewer motivation.
• Do not include URLs if current rules forbid them.
• Do not introduce new experiments or results. Explain existing evidence, clarify omissions, or state why requested experiments are not needed.
• If supplementary files were missing or corrupted, acknowledge the limitation; AAAI has not permitted updates at rebuttal time, and the supplementary deadline (2026-07-31 for AAAI-27) closed months before feedback opens.

What moves an AAAI score

Author feedback at AAAI is read by human reviewers and weighed in SPC/AC discussion, not by the non-decisional AI review. With one short response and no second round, spend every character on the concern most likely to flip a borderline decision. Triage each reviewer point into a lane:

• Factual error that, if uncorrected, sinks the paper: answer first, cite the submitted anchor.
• Misread of an existing result: clarify and point to the table, theorem, or appendix line.
• Request for a new experiment: explain why submitted evidence covers it, or scope the claim.
• Taste or framing complaint: usually skip; a defensive paragraph rarely moves the score.

Reviewer-pushback patterns and the AAAI fix