Seven ML venues, compared on what authors care about:
1. NeurIPS: biggest, broadest. Abstract May 4, paper May 6, 2026 AOE. 9-page limit. 2. ICML: the theorists' flagship. Abstract late January 2026 AOE; conference July 6-12, 2026, Seoul. 3. ICLR: representation learning, fully open review. Fall deadline for the 2027 cycle. 4. CVPR: vision plus heavy ML overlap. Paper Nov 13, 2025 (Denver, June 3-7, 2026); the CVPR 2027 submission deadline falls in November 2026, following the yearly mid-November pattern. 25.4% acceptance in the 2026 cycle. 5. AAAI: broad AI, big tent. Conference Jan 20-27, 2026, Singapore. 6. KDD: data mining and applied ML. 7. AISTATS: statistics-flavored ML, spring conference. Sources: IEEE, ACM These seven top machine learning conferences give you four shots a year with minimal overlap: CVPR (Nov) to ICLR (fall) to ICML (Jan) to NeurIPS (May). Rejected papers usually need one solid revision round, not a rewrite; most rejections are about framing, not fatal flaws. VenueFit matches your paper's subfield and readiness date to the right venue, free.