Corl Camera Ready

CoRL Camera-Ready

Acceptance converts the paper from a review object into a permanent PMLR record — alongside, at CoRL, the public release of its reviews and rebuttal. The camera-ready pass is therefore three jobs: absorb what the review process demanded, de-anonymize cleanly, and stand up the external artifact surface that the proceedings pipeline cannot host. The 2026 rules below were read from corl.org author instructions on 2026-07-08; the deadline was October 12, 2026, 23:59 AoE.

What changes at camera-ready (2026 cycle)

Spend the ninth page on the reviewers' record

The extra page is explicitly tied to review feedback, and your reviews will be published next to the paper — so the highest-value use is closing the loop visibly:

1. Reread reviews, rebuttal, and any AC comment; list every commitment you made ("we will add the 5-seed table," "we will scope the claim to tasks A–B").
2. Land each commitment in the body and note where — future readers will be able to diff your promises against the PDF.
3. Typical allocations that pay off: the rebuttal's new results table graduated into §5; an expanded Limitations section; the evaluation-protocol detail reviewers had to ask for.
4. Resist scope creep: camera-ready is not a second submission. New claims that were never reviewed do not belong in the archival version.

De-anonymization sweep

• Restore the author block, affiliations, funding acknowledgments, and any personnel thanks (acknowledgments remain outside the page count).
• Reverse the review-time distancing: "the authors of [12]" becomes "our prior work [12]" where that is the honest phrasing.
• Swap anonymized artifact mirrors for the permanent public URLs — and only after those URLs exist and are populated (corl-artifact-evaluation).
• Scrub leftover review scaffolding: line numbers, draft watermarks, margin notes, \anonymize{} macros, and the anonymous-repo README inside your ZIPs.

The external artifact surface (the PMLR no-video rule)

Because PMLR will not carry video — the field's core evidence medium — every accepted CoRL paper effectively ships a project page. Build it to archival standards before the PDF freezes:

• De-anonymized overview video (now free of the 250 MB review cap) plus the uncut per-task evaluation clips that back your tables.
• Code, checkpoints, and dataset links with the tier declarations from corl-artifact-evaluation; DOI-stamped archives for anything citable.
• Print durable URLs in the paper — a lab-server link that dies in three years takes your evidence with it; prefer organization-level or archival hosting.

# Final-PDF gate, run on the actual upload candidate
grep -c 'usepackage\[final\]{corl_2026}' main.tex          # exactly 1
pdftotext final.pdf - | head -40                            # author block present & correct
pdftotext final.pdf - | grep -nEi 'anonym|under review|paper #' # expect no hits
pdfinfo final.pdf | grep -i pages                           # 9pp body + refs + appendix merged
pdftotext final.pdf - | grep -oE 'https?://[^ ]+' | sort -u # every URL: live, permanent, deliberate

PMLR metadata discipline

• The proceedings entry (title, author order, affiliations) is generated from what you submit to the camera-ready pipeline; a typo here propagates to citation indexes for good. Reconcile against every coauthor's preferred name form in writing before upload.
• Expect the PMLR publication year to postdate the conference for some volumes (see corl-related-work on the year-offset trap) — your own paper may be cited with either year; you cannot control it, but your project page can display the canonical BibTeX.
• The CoRL 2026 volume number was not yet assigned at verification time (待核实); recent anchors are v270 (2024) and v305 (2025).

Registration, presentation, and the November venue

• CoRL 2026 runs November 9–12 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas (workshop day November 9). Registration and presentation obligations for accepted papers — who must register, in-person requirements, poster/talk formats — were not verified in this pack (待核实): read the acceptance email and the year-site's attendance pages as controlling.
• Plan the presentation assets against the public record: your poster and talk will be delivered to an audience that can read your reviews.

Exit checklist

[ ] All rebuttal commitments landed and locatable in the PDF
[ ] 9-page body; Limitations expanded, not amputated
[ ] [final] template mode; identity restored; scaffolding scrubbed
[ ] Appendix merged at end of the single PDF
[ ] Project page live: video, code, data, canonical BibTeX
[ ] Every printed URL durable and populated
[ ] Coauthor sign-off on names/affiliations/order, in writing
[ ] Uploaded before Oct 12 23:59 AoE (2026); confirmation archived
[ ] Registration/attendance obligations confirmed from the acceptance
    email [待核实 in this pack]

Camera-ready mechanics are re-issued with each cycle's acceptance emails and at https://www.corl.org/contributions/instruction-for-authors — that text, not this snapshot, controls.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills → CoRL-Skills/skills/corl-camera-ready/SKILL.md