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name: icml-workflow description: Use when planning or sequencing an ICML manuscript workflow end to end - from topic selection and drafting through OpenReview submission, double-blind review, author response, camera-ready, PMLR publication, public original-submission release, and rerouting decisions. Use when you need the next ICML skill, the official page to reopen, or the blocking gap for the current stage.

ICML Workflow

Use this as the router for the ICML depth pack. It chooses the next skill and keeps policy, evidence, artifact, and public-record risks visible.

ICML is a conference, not a journal: it has no standing editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. The rotating leadership is the per-edition General Chair and Program Chairs (2026 General Chair: Tong Zhang; Program Chairs: Dudik, Jaggi, Agarwal, Li, verified 2026-06-22), and the cost model is registration fees, not APCs — PMLR proceedings are open-access with no author fee. Conference organizers rotate yearly, so re-check the current CFP and committees page rather than carrying a name forward.

Stage map

1. Fit and track: icml-topic-selection.
2. Drafting: icml-writing-style, icml-related-work, icml-experiments.
3. Artifact and supplement: icml-artifact-evaluation, icml-reproducibility, icml-supplementary.
4. Pre-submission audit: icml-submission.
5. Review diagnosis: icml-review-process.
6. Rebuttal and discussion: icml-author-response.
7. Accepted-paper work: icml-camera-ready.

Working principles

• Start with the current ICML official pages, not last year's memory.
• Maintain a table mapping claims to main-paper evidence, appendix evidence, code/data, and limitations.
• Keep anonymous review artifacts and public release artifacts as separate states.
• Treat reciprocal reviewing, reviewer LLM policy, impact statements, lay summaries, and public original-submission release as first-class workflow items.
• Decide early whether a paper is really an ICML main-track paper or better suited to a position paper, workshop, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, TMLR, JMLR, or a domain venue.

Deadline cadence (verify against the current CFP)

ICML runs an abstract deadline before the full-paper deadline, and the 2026 cycle freezes the author list at the abstract stage. Treat the cadence as: abstract and author list locked, then full PDF and supplement, then reviews, then the response window, then one discussion round, then decisions, then camera-ready and the PMLR-bound proceedings. Never hard-code the exact dates here; reopen the current year's CFP because they move annually.

Stage-to-risk router

Stage	Dominant ICML risk	First skill to open
Fit	Wrong track (main vs Position Papers)	icml-topic-selection
Drafting	Claim outruns evidence in 8 pages	icml-writing-style, icml-experiments
Pre-submission	Anonymity or page-limit desk reject	icml-submission
Response	One-round rebuttal misallocated	icml-author-response
Accepted	Public-record exposure on OpenReview	icml-camera-ready

Worked routing pass

A team has an adaptive-optimizer paper with a convergence proof and ImageNet-scale benchmarks. The router sends them first to topic selection (confirm main-track, not Position Papers), then to experiments and writing-style for the tuned-baseline and compute-disclosure gaps, then to submission for the OpenReview and format-checker audit. Each handoff records the official page to reopen so the plan never relies on last year's remembered rules. After decisions, an accepted paper flows to camera-ready with its public-record state in mind, while a rejected one loops back to topic selection or reroute, carrying the reviewer-quotable issue into the next venue choice.

Output format

[Current stage] fit / drafting / pre-submission / review / response / camera-ready / reroute
[Next skill] <ICML skill>
[Official source to open] <CFP/Author Instructions/FAQ/OpenReview/LLM policy>
[Blocking gap] <policy/evidence/artifact/writing/public-record>
[Next action] <concrete task>