General rules

• All submitted manuscripts should follow the IJCAI 2021 paper template, using the IJCAI-21 author kit

• Submissions will be peer-reviewed under the double-blind policy. There will be no rebuttal (author feedback) phase and no proceedings

• Please submit online through our CMT system. Only pdf format is allowed for the paper and only mp4 format is allowed for the supplementary

• Only four papers will be selected to give oral presentations. All accepted papers will be presented at virtual poster sessions

• All accepted papers will be available on this website. Authors will also need to submit a video to further help advertise their papers

Submission types

• Short papers (extended abstracts): up to 4 pages (including references)

• Regular papers: up to 6 pages (plus up to 1 page of references)

Additional Instructions

• Both types of submissions can be (1) work in progress or (2) work under review, (3) or work that is already accepted/published elsewhere (e.g., IJCAI’21, CVPR'21, ICML'21 papers). The goal is to aggregate all efforts in relevant areas

• Short papers are convenient for work in progress or under review as dual submission policy at conferences typically does not apply to 4-page papers. This means that authors can concurrently or later submit their work to other conferences for publication even if the short paper is accepted at our workshop

• Regular papers are convenient for work that is already accepted/published elsewhere, which can be submitted to our workshop without shrinking to 4-page short papers, i.e., only reformatting using the IJCAI format is required

• Papers with original content are highly encouraged, especially those for applications with limited algorithmic novelty, creating new datasets, benchmarking existing algorithms, which are often undervalued and relatively difficult to get accepted at conferences

Awards

• There will be the best paper award as voted by our program committees

• There will be the best student paper award as voted by our program committees