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Acceptance rates for the major AI conferences

Statistics of acceptance rate for the main AI conferences

Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
ACL'14 26.2% (146/572) 26.1% (139/551)
ACL'15 25.0% (173/692) 22.4% (145/648)
ACL'16 28.0% (231/825) 21.0% (97/463)
ACL'17 25.0% (195/751) 18.9% (107/567)
ACL'18 25.3% (258/1018) 24.0% (126/526)
ACL'19 25.7% (447/1737) 18.2% (213/1168)
ACL'20 25.4% (571/2244) 17.6% (208/1185)
EMNLP'14 30.4% (155/510) 27.8% (70/252)
EMNLP'15 26.2% (157/600) 22.1% (155/700)
EMNLP'16 25.8% (177/687) 21.8% (87/400)
EMNLP'17 25.8% (216/836) 18.4% (107/582)
EMNLP'18 25.5% (351/1376) 23.2% (198/855)
EMNLP'19 25.6% (465/1813) 20.5% (218/1063)
EMNLP'20 22.4% (754/3359) (Long+Short) 15.5% (520/3359) (Findings)
NAACL-HLT'13 30.0% (88/293) 32.1% (51/162)
NAACL-HLT'15 29.1% (117/402) 22.1% (69/312)
NAACL-HLT'16 25.3% (100/396) 28.9% (82/284)
NAACL-HLT'18 32.0% (207/647) 29.4% (125/425)
NAACL-HLT'19 26.3% (281/1067) 21.3% (142/666)
COLING'12 27% (311/1000+) -
COLING'14 30.8% (217/705) -
COLING'16 32.4% (337/1039) -
COLING'18 37.4% (332/888) -
COLING'20 33.4% (622/1862) -

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
CVPR'14 29.9% (540/1807) (104 orals and 436 posters) -
CVPR'15 28.3% (602/2123) (71 orals and 531 posters) -
CVPR'16 29.9% (643/2145) (83 orals, 123 spotlights and 437 posters) -
CVPR'17 29.9% (783/2620) (71 orals, 144 spotlights and 568 posters) -
CVPR'18 29.6% (979/3303) (70 orals, 224 spotlights and 685 posters) -
CVPR'19 25.0% (1294/5160) (288 short orals and 1294 posters) -
CVPR'20 22.1% (1470/6656) -
ICCV'13 27.9% (454/1629) (41 orals and 413 posters) -
ICCV'15 30.9% (525/1698) -
ICCV'17 29.0% (621/2143) (45 orals, 56 spotlights and 520 posters) -
ICCV'19 25.0% (1077/4304) (187 short orals and 1077 posters) -
ECCV'14 27.9% (363/1444) (38 orals and 325 posters) -
ECCV'16 26.6% (415/1561) (28 orals, 45 spotlights and 342 posters) -
ECCV'18 31.8% (776/2439) (59 orals and 717 posters) -
ECCV'20 27.1% (1361/5025) (104 orals, 161 spotlights and 1096 posters) -

Machine Learning and Learning Theory

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
ICML'14 15.0% (Cycle I), 22.0% (Cycle II) -
ICML'15 26.0% (270/1037) -
ICML'16 24.0% (322/?) -
ICML'17 25.9% (434/1676) -
ICML'18 25.1% (621/2473) -
ICML'19 22.6% (773/3424) -
ICML'20 21.8% (1088/4990) -
NeurIPS'14 24.7% (414/1678) -
NeurIPS'15 21.9% (403/1838) -
NeurIPS'16 23.6% (569/2403) -
NeurIPS'17 20.9% (678/3240) (40 orals, 112 spotlights and 526 posters) -
NeurIPS'18 20.8% (1011/4856) (30 orals, 168 spotlights and 813 posters) -
NeurIPS'19 21.1% (1428/6743) (36 orals, 164 spotlights and 1228 posters) -
NeurIPS'20 20.1% (1900/9454) (105 orals, 280 spotlights and 1515 posters) -
ICLR'14 - -
ICLR'15 - -
ICLR'16 - -
ICLR'17 39.1% (198/507) (15 orals and 183 posters) -
ICLR'18 32.0% (314/981) (23 orals and 291 posters) -
ICLR'19 31.4% (500/1591) (24 orals and 476 posters) -
ICLR'20 26.5% (687/2594) (48 orals, 107 spotlights and 532 posters) -
ICLR'21 28.7% (860/2997) (53 orals, 114 spotlights and 693 posters) -
COLT'14 32.1% (45/140) -
COLT'15 34.8% (62/178) -
COLT'16 26.1% (53/203) -
COLT'17 32.5% (74/228) -
COLT'18 27.2% (91/335) -
COLT'19 30.0% (118/393) -
COLT'20 30.9% (120/388) -
UAI'14 32.0% (94/292) -
UAI'15 34.0% (99/291) -
UAI'16 31.0% (85/275) -
UAI'17 31.0% (87/282) -
UAI'18 30.8% (104/337) -
UAI'19 26.0% (118/450) -
AISTATS'14 35.8% (120/335) -
AISTATS'15 28.7% (127/442) -
AISTATS'16 30.7% (165/537) -
AISTATS'17 31.7% (168/530) -
AISTATS'18 33.2% (214/645) -
AISTATS'19 32.4% (360/1111) -

Artificial Intelligence

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
AAAI'14 28.0% (398/1406) -
AAAI'15 26.7% (531/1991) -
AAAI'16 25.8% (549/2132) -
AAAI'17 24.6% (638/2590) -
AAAI'18 24.6% (933/3800) -
AAAI'19 16.2% (1150/7095) -
AAAI'20 20.6% (1591/7737) -
AAAI'21 21.4% (1692/7911) -
IJCAI'13 28.0% (413/1473) -
IJCAI'15 28.6% (572/1996) -
IJCAI'16 24.0% (551/2294) -
IJCAI'17 26.0% (660/2540) -
IJCAI'18 20.5% (710/3470) -
IJCAI'19 17.9% (850/4752) -
IJCAI'20 12.6% (592/4717) -

Data Mining and Information Retrieval

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
KDD'14 14.6% (151/1036) -
KDD'15 19.5% (160/819) -
KDD'16 13.7% (142/1115) -
KDD'17 17.4% (130/748) -
KDD'18 18.4% (181/983) (107 orals and 74 posters) -
KDD'19 14.2% (170/1200) (110 orals and 60 posters) -
KDD'20 16.9% (216/1279) -
SIGIR'14 21.0% (82/387) 40.0% (104/263)
SIGIR'15 20.0% (70/351) 31.3% (79/252)
SIGIR'16 18.0% (62/341) 30.6% (104/339)
SIGIR'17 22.0% (78/362) 30.0% (121/398)
SIGIR'18 21.0% (86/409) 30.0% (98/327)
SIGIR'19 19.7% (84/426) 24.4% (108/443)
SIGIR'20 26.5% (147/555) 30.2% (153/507)
TheWebConf'14 13.0% (84/645) -
TheWebConf'15 14.0% (131/929) -
TheWebConf'16 16.0% (115/727) -
TheWebConf'17 17.0% (164/966) -
TheWebConf'18 15.0% (171/1140) -
TheWebConf'19 18.0% (225/1247) 19.9% (72/361)
TheWebConf'20 19.2% (217/1129) 24.7% (98/397)
TheWebConf'21 20.6% (357/1736) -
WSDM'14 18.0% (64/355) -
WSDM'15 16.4% (39/238) -
WSDM'16 18.2% (67/368) -
WSDM'17 15.8% (80/505) -
WSDM'18 16.1% (84/514) -
WSDM'19 16.4% (84/511) -
WSDM'20 14.8% (91/615) -
WSDM'21 18.6% (112/603) -
CIKM'14 21.0% (175/838) 21.9% (57/260)
CIKM'15 26.0% (165/646) 25.0% (69/276)
CIKM'16 23.0% (160/701) 23.5% (55/234)
CIKM'17 20.0% (171/855) 28.4% (119/419)
CIKM'18 17.0% (147/862) 23.2% (96/413)
CIKM'19 19.4% (200/1030) 21.3% (100/470)
CIKM'20 21.0% (193/920) 25.9% (103/397)
ICDM'14 9.8% (71/727) 9.8% (71/727)
ICDM'15 8.4% (68/807) 9.7% (78/807)
ICDM'16 8.6% (78/904) 11.0% (100/904)
ICDM'17 9.3% (72/778) 10.7% (83/778)
ICDM'18 8.9% (84/948) 11.1% (105/948)
ICDM'19 9.1% (95/1046) 9.5% (99/1046)
ICDM'20 9.8% (91/930) 9.9% (92/930)
RecSys'15 23.0% (35/152) -
RecSys'16 18.2% (29/159) -
RecSys'17 20.8% (26/125) 16.4% (20/122)
RecSys'18 17.7% (32/181) -
RecSys'19 19.0% (36/189) -
RecSys'20 17.9% (39/218) -

Speech and Signal Processing

Conference       Long Paper           Short Paper
INTERSPEECH'14 - -
INTERSPEECH'15 51.0% (~743/1458) -
INTERSPEECH'16 50.5% (779/1541) -
INTERSPEECH'17 52.0% (799/1582) -
INTERSPEECH'18 54.3% (749/1320) -
INTERSPEECH'19 49.3% (914/1855) -
INTERSPEECH'20 ~47% (?/?) -
ICASSP'14 48.0% (1709/3500) -
ICASSP'15 52.0% (1207/2322) -
ICASSP'16 47.0% (1265/2682) -
ICASSP'17 52.0% (1220/2518) -
ICASSP'18 49.7% (1406/2829) -
ICASSP'19 46.5% (1774/3815) -
ICASSP'21 48.0% (1734/3610) -

Note:

  1. For KDD and TheWebConf (formerly known as WWW), only the papers from research track are counted.
  2. For ICDM, submissions of short paper and those of long paper are in the same session and the decision of the paper type is made according to its quality.