emad_eldeen t1_j2zhnx5 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 12:43 AM

Reply to comment by wang422003 in [D]There is still no discussion nor response under my ICLR submission after two months. What do you think I should do? by minogame

First, I'm sure that they read your reply, maybe also more than once, and I'm sure they come back many times to see if other reviewers responded or not ... this is human nature. But what doesn't make them reply, that's the question. The first possibility is that these reviewers just ask their students to do the review for them, and don't come back to them for reply. The second is that they had an initial thought about the paper, maybe they didn't like the ideas presentation or the writing, and they are not welling to change their feedback whatever you said. I'm not sure about the exact reason, but this is not in ICLR alone, maybe this is the public one, but this is the case in most rebuttals.

wang422003 t1_j30vur6 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 7:40 AM

Yeah I also think the reviewers who edited their reviews read my response. Actually, one of them claimed that he/she is not in my research field, so I sincerely asked for a discussion in my response, so that I can acknowledge how to make my paper readable for those not in the same research field. (Since my research topic is quite unpopular, this is the case.) But I waited for months, and got nothing. I am not sure that is it really a good way to ignore my response/request about the discussion? The scores on my submission diverge quite a lot, but none of the reviewers ever joined the discussion.