Submission Instructions

Manuscripts can be submitted at UAI 2025 OpenReview from January 5th, 2025 (23:59 AoE), until February 10th, 2025 (23:59 AoE).

Please refer to important dates for deadlines.

Formatting Instructions

Manuscripts must be prepared using the UAI latex template and formatting instructions. Manuscripts must be submitted as a single PDF file of at most 10 MB in size. The main part of the manuscripts must not exceed 8 pages in length. Unlimited additional pages containing references and appendices (with proofs, experimental protocols, and any required details) are allowed and should be included after the main part in the same file. Manuscripts with an overlength main part or that violate the UAI proceedings format will be desk-rejected (rejected without review).

Supplementary Material

Authors may also provide further supplementary material, such as source code or data, in a ZIP file of up to 50MB in size. Supplementary material can be uploaded from the author console after uploading the manuscript. This additional supplementary material will not become part of the proceedings, but authors may provide links to code and videos for the proceedings.

Please note that reviewers primarily base their assessment of the submission based on the main part of the manuscript (without appendices), and so enough details (including proofs or proof sketches) must be provided in there to convince the reviewers of the submissions' merits. Reviewers are not required to consider any additional supplementary material.

Reviewing Process

Submitted papers will be assessed in a double-blind review process. Reviews will be released on April 3rd. Once the reviews are posted, authors are free to provide responses in the discussion period from April 3rd to April 10th. The most relevant dates for authors are as follows:

  • Reviews Release: April 3rd, 2025
  • Discussion Stage 1: April 3rd-10th, 2025
    • Discussions among Reviewers/Authors/Area Chairs (ACs).
    • ACs encourage Reviewers to acknowledge and respond to author responses.
  • Discussion Stage 2: April 10th-17th, 2025
    • Discussions among Reviewers and ACs (without Authors).

Manuscripts and discussions will not be made public and will only be visible to the assigned program committee during the reviewing process. After decision notifications, the accepted and opted-in rejected manuscripts, together with their reviews, meta-reviews, and author responses, will be made public and non-anonymous public commenting will be enabled (by default, rejected papers will not be made public). Names of reviewers and area chairs of manuscripts made public will not be disclosed.

Updating or Withdrawing your Submission

You may update any part of your submission until the Paper Submission deadline.

Submissions can be withdrawn at any time during the process. We reserve the right to use information of withdrawn submissions as described on this page (e.g. for statistics).

Evaluation

Papers should clearly state their main claims and offer evidence in support of those claims. Submissions will be judged on the basis of their technical correctness, novelty, whether claims are supported by convincing evidence, and clarity of writing. Reproducibility and ethical aspects will also be considered, and submissions are expected to put the work into appropriate scientific context and to cite all publications that are directly relevant.

Authorship

The authors list (names and order) provided in the submission form at the paper submission deadline is considered final and no changes in authorship will be permitted for accepted papers. The author list should include all, and only, individuals who made substantial contributions to the content of the paper. Large language models (LLMs) are not eligible for authorship.

Regarding the use of LLMs, they are permitted as a general-purpose tool to assist with writing. Authors take full responsibility for the content of their papers, including material generated by LLMs that could be construed as plagiarism or scientific misconduct.

Double-blind Policy

The reviewing process is double blind. Authors must make sure that the submission (including all supplementary material) does not disclose their identities or affiliations. Hence, among other precautions, authors should use the third person to refer to their own work, should not include names in the acknowledgements, detailed information about grants, and links to external resources that may reveal the authors' identities or affiliations are forbidden.

Dual-submission Policy

Manuscripts that are currently under review or have been accepted or published in a refereed venue with proceedings may not be submitted. This also applies to manuscripts that are substantially identical. Moreover, submitting the same (or substantially similar) work to another refereed venue with proceedings while under review at UAI is not permitted. Manuscripts in conferences or workshops without proceedings, technical report repositories and arXiv are not considered dual submissions.

Dual submissions will be identified via a combination of automated methods and human judgement. The information of the submissions might be shared with other conferences to avoid dual submissions.

Further Submission Rules

  • Authors who submit two or more papers should make sure they are substantially different.
  • Program Chairs and Workflow Chairs cannot submit papers.
  • Authors of submitted papers agree that at least one author will, if needed, review papers for UAI upon request by the Program Chairs.
  • At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference.
  • Data about submissions may be used for statistical purposes (to improve the quality of the peer review process, and the resulting proceedings in future conferences). Any statistical analysis will aggregate results such that no particular information of any single submission is disclosed.
  • Desk rejections may be issued for submissions that fail to follow the submission policies, the formatting guidelines, or are clearly out-of-scope for the conference. This decision will be taken by the Program Chairs.

For questions about the submission instructions, please contact Program Chairs at uai2025chairs+program@gmail.com.


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