AAAI-27 Submission Instructions

Author Registration

Authors must register at the AAAI-27 web-based technical track paper submission site before they can submit abstracts and papers. To avoid last-minute congestion, authors are encouraged to register well in advance of the abstract deadline. Authors are required to use the same OpenReview account (i.e., associated with the same email address) across all submissions and review assignments.

Given the size of the conference, all authors of AAAI-27 submissions will be expected to join the conference’s reviewer pool unless prevented by extenuating circumstances. Potential reviewers will be vetted based on their research experience, and depending on this experience, may be selected as program committee or senior program committee members.

Abstract and Paper Submission

Every submission requires both an abstract submission and a corresponding paper submission. For regular papers, abstracts must be submitted by July 21, 2026 and full papers must be submitted by July 28, 2026. There will be no individual exceptions. If you experience any technical problems with the OpenReview site, please contact the AAAI-27 Workflow Chairs at workflowchairs@aaai.zendesk.com.

Submissions will not be accepted by e-mail or any other mechanism other than OpenReview. After submission, the system will not automatically send a confirmation of receipt. If you want to receive a confirmation email, please click the paper ID to view the submission, and then click the “Email” button at the top right to send the confirmation to yourself or all the authors. AAAI will contact authors again only if problems are encountered with papers. We intend to close the submission system exactly at the deadline. Once the deadline has passed, we regret that we will be unable to make individual exceptions or to correspond with authors regarding circumstances that prevented timely submission.

At the time of abstract submission, authors should include a full title for their paper and a complete abstract in the fields provided. Submissions that have “placeholder” (e.g., test or xyz) titles or abstracts (or none at all) will be deleted. Authors of such vacuous submissions will be notified that their abstract has been deleted and will not be allowed to submit a full paper. The Program Chairs also reserve the right to reject papers without review if they change their abstracts substantially between the abstract and final deadlines.

Papers must be formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style; see the AAAI-27 author kit for details. Papers must be in trouble-free, high-resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. AAAI submissions are anonymous and must conform to the instructions (detailed below) for double-blind review. The authors must remove all author and affiliation information from their submission for review, and may replace it with other information, such as paper number and keywords. The main submission PDF can have up to 9 pages, with pages 8–9 reserved exclusively for references. That is, the main paper can have up to 7 pages of non-references content. Acknowledgements should be omitted from papers submitted for review, and any ethical statements or similar considerations, if included, must be included in the 7 content pages.
Only PDF files are required at the time of submission for review; authors will additionally need to submit paper source files if their paper is accepted for publication.

Submission Limit per Author

Each individual author is limited to no more than a combined limit of 10 submissions to the AAAI-27 technical track (excluding AI Alignment and AI for Social Impact tracks) and authors may not be added to papers following submission (see below for policies about author changes).

Guidelines for Changes to Titles/Authors after Submissions

MODIFICATIONS TO SUBMISSIONS ARE ONLY ALLOWED UNTIL THE FULL PAPER DEADLINE (July 28 for Phase 1 submissions). No exceptions will be granted. Please see the full policy on Paper Modification Guidelines.

Policy Concerning Multiple Submissions and Scientific Integrity

AAAI-27 is committed to maintaining a fair review process and the highest standards of scientific integrity. Each submission should represent a distinct scientific contribution that stands on its own merits.

Simultaneous Submission to Other Archival Venues

AAAI-27 will not consider any paper that, by the paper submission deadline, is under review, accepted for publication, or previously published in another archival conference or journal. Preprint servers (such as arXiv) and non-archival workshops are permitted.

Authors may withdraw a submission from another venue with a concurrent review process and submit that work to AAAI-27, provided the withdrawal is completed before the AAAI-27 submission. Authors must confirm upon submission that their paper is not under review at any other archival venue, including conferences with a post-review archival publication option.

After submitting to AAAI-27, authors may not submit the same or substantially similar work to another archival conference or journal until they have received a decision from AAAI-27 or have withdrawn their AAAI-27 submission.

Overlapping Submissions

If concerns arise regarding overlapping submissions, papers involving an overlapping set of authors may be considered together in the assessment of novelty. If publishing one paper would render another paper (whether submitted to AAAI-27 or another archival conference or journal) insufficiently novel or incremental, the AAAI-27 submission may be summarily rejected as violating AAAI’s multiple-submission policy.

Authors should not submit multiple papers that do not constitute distinct scientific contributions. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Submitting the same paper with cosmetic changes.
• “Thin slicing” a single contribution into multiple minimally different papers.
• Submitting multiple papers that, taken together, would more appropriately be presented as a single scientific contribution (for example, by splitting results across different methods, datasets, application domains, analyses, or presentations).
• Submitting obfuscated duplicates or “alternative universe” versions of substantially the same work.

Authors should combine closely related ideas into a single, stronger submission whenever appropriate.

Assessment of Simultaneous or Overlapping Submissions

If concerns are raised regarding overlap between submissions, the program committee will review the available information about the submissions. If they concludes that the submissions have excessive technical overlap or otherwise violate the multiple-submission policy, the AAAI-27 submission(s) may be summarily rejected. In cases involving another archival conference or journal, the organizers of that venue may also be informed. As with all summary rejection decisions, these determinations are final.

Citation and Comparison

Papers are expected to cite those refereed publications most relevant to their content, but authors are excused for not knowing about all non-refereed work (e.g, appearing on arXiv). Nevertheless, in cases where such prior work is widely known in the field, its existence may be considered by reviewers in assessing a submission’s novelty. Papers published less than two months before the regular paper submission deadline (July 28, 2026) are considered contemporaneous to all AAAI-27 submissions (whether submitted as regular or fast track submissions); authors are not obliged to address such papers (though, especially for the camera ready versions of accepted papers, authors are encouraged to do so).

Reproducibility Guidelines

Authors must complete the reproducibility checklist provided in the AAAI-27 Author Kit and submit it at the time of paper submission. The checklist describes how the results in the submission can be reproduced and must be uploaded separately from the main paper in the designated field of the submission form. The completed checklist will be made available to reviewers.

Information needed to reproduce experimental results may be included in the main paper or in a Code and Data Supplement, as appropriate. Additional technical material such as proofs, assumptions, and algorithm pseudocode, may be included in the Supplementary Document. When relevant, authors are encouraged to address each reproducibility criterion in detail within the Supplementary Document.

Reviewers will evaluate the reproducibility of the reported results based on the materials included in the submission, and this evaluation will contribute to the final paper decision. All code, data, and other materials necessary for reproducibility should be provided at submission time (e.g., in the Code and Data Supplement or Supplementary Document). Claims that such materials “will be released after acceptance or publication” must not be treated as evidence of reproducibility; if they are not included in the submission, reviewers should assume they will not be made available.

Ethics Policy

All AAAI authors and reviewers are required to honor the AAAI Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement, as well as the AAAI Code of Professional Conduct. A paper may be rejected if an author is found to violate the AAAI Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement or the AAAI Code of Professional Conduct.