The 2026 deadline calendar for ML/AI:
- January: ICML abstract registration (late Jan, AOE); AAAI conference (Singapore, Jan 20-27). - February: CVPR decisions land (Feb 20); rebuttal season. - March: ECCV paper registration (Mar 6). - April to May: NeurIPS abstract May 4, paper May 6 (AOE). - June: CVPR conference (Denver, June 3-7). - July: ICML conference (Seoul, July 6-12). - August: IJCAI conference (Bremen, Aug 8-14). - September: ECCV conference (Malmo, Sep 8-13). - October to November: CVPR 2027 cycle abstract (early Nov); ICLR 2027 fall window. - December: camera-readies and workshop papers. Sources: IEEE, ACM Survival rules: never target two major deadlines four weeks apart, freeze experiments six weeks before the deadline, and register the abstract early (it is mandatory at NeurIPS and CVPR). The researchers who hit deadlines plan backwards from them in September, not forwards in April.
The best way to track submission deadlines is a deadline app with push alerts, not a spreadsheet you forget to open.