NeurIPS Submission

Use this skill for a submission-readiness audit before a paper enters OpenReview. Treat every annual rule as volatile: reopen the current CFP, Main Track Handbook, paper template, and submission portal before final advice.

Core checks

• Target the right track. NeurIPS main track, Evaluations & Datasets, Position Papers, Reproducibility/MLRC, competitions, workshops, and Journal-to-Conference tracks have separate calls and portals; do not assume transfer is possible after submission.
• Confirm that all authors have active OpenReview profiles and that author names are entered by the abstract deadline. After that, only author order may change under the 2026 handbook.
• Verify the yearly LaTeX style file, PDF-only submission format, content-page limit, file-size limit, and whether references, text appendices, checklist, and code/data are handled separately.
• Confirm double-blind compliance across the main PDF, supplement, repository links, uploaded ZIPs, acknowledgments, self-citations, prompts, demos, model cards, dataset cards, and metadata.
• Check dual-submission exposure. Overlapping archival submissions can cause desk rejection; do not submit the same work to another archival venue while it is under NeurIPS review.