AAAI Review Process

Use this to plan around AAAI review rather than treating it as a generic OpenReview rebuttal. Reopen the current review-process page and author FAQ before advising on timing or strategy.

Process model

• AAAI main technical track uses double-blind reviewing.
• AAAI-27 uses a two-phase review process. Phase 1 allocates three reviewers, two human reviews supplemented by one non-decisional AI-generated review. Papers with sufficiently negative reviews are rejected before author feedback (AAAI-27: notified 2026-09-24).
• Papers continuing to Phase 2 receive additional reviews, up to five in total, and one author feedback phase (AAAI-27: 2026-10-19 to 10-25, final decisions 2026-11-30). Phase 2 reviewers are not shown the Phase 1 reviews until they have submitted their own, so a Phase 2 review is an independent read, not a reaction to the earlier ones.
• Final decisions were made through reviewer discussion and senior program committee oversight, not by the AI review.
• Author feedback is short and constrained; it is mainly for correcting misunderstandings, not replacing the paper.

Author strategy

• Reduce Phase 1 reject risk before submission by making contribution, evidence, and checklist compliance obvious.
• When reviews arrive, distinguish human-review claims, AI-review errors, and AC/SPC decision questions.
• Use rebuttal to resolve the highest-impact factual issue under the character limit.
• Do not attack the AI review. Correct it when it contains consequential false statements.
• Avoid new experiments in rebuttal; use submitted evidence and camera-ready promises sparingly.

Stage-by-stage decision map

AAAI's pipeline differs from a single-round OpenReview venue, so plan actions per stage rather than treating every signal as a rebuttal opportunity.