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) |
ACL'21 |
24.5% (571/2327) |
13.6% (139/1023) |
ACL'21 Findings |
14.6% (339/2327) |
11.5% (118/1023) |
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 |
24.5% (602/2455) |
16.6% (150/904) |
EMNLP'20 Findings |
13.5% (332/2455) |
12.7% (115/904) |
EMNLP'21 |
25.6% (650/2540) |
17.9% (190/1060) |
EMNLP'21 Findings |
11.8% (300/2540) |
11.2% (119/1060) |
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) |
NAACL-HLT'21 |
29.2% (366/1254) |
22.6% (123/544) |
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) |
- |
CVPR'21 |
23.7% (1661/7015) (295 orals and 1366 posters) |
- |
CVPR'22 |
25.3% (2067/8161) |
- |
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) |
- |
ICML'21 |
21.5% (1184/5513) (166 long talks, 1018 short talks) |
- |
ICML'22 |
21.9% (1235/5630) (118 long talks, 1117 short talks) |
- |
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) |
- |
NeurIPS'21 |
25.69% (2344/9122) (55 orals, 260 spotlights and 2029 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) |
- |
ICLR'22 |
32.9% (1095/3328) (54 orals, 176 spotlights and 865 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) |
- |
UAI'20 |
27.5% (142/515) |
- |
UAI'21 |
26.3% (205/777) |
- |
UAI'22 |
32.3% (230/712) (36 orals and 194 posters) |
- |
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) |
- |
AISTATS'20 |
- |
- |
AISTATS'21 |
29.8% (455/1527) (48 orals) |
- |
AISTATS'22 |
29.2% (493/1685) |
- |
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) |
- |
AAAI'22 |
15.0% (1349/9020) |
- |
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) |
- |
IJCAI'21 |
13.9% (587/4204) |
- |
IJCAI'22 |
14.9% (679/4535) |
- |
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) |
SIGIR'21 |
21.0% (151/720) |
27.6% (145/526) |
SIGIR'22 |
20.3% (161/794) |
24.7% (165/667) |
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) |
- |
TheWebConf'22 |
17.7% (323/1822) |
- |
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) |
- |
WSDM'22 |
15.8% (80/505) |
- |
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) |
CIKM'21 |
21.7% (271/1251) |
28.3% (177/626) |
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) |
ICDM'21 |
9.9% (98/990) |
10.1% (100/990) |
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% (?/?) |
- |
INTERSPEECH'21 |
48.4% (963/1990) |
- |
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) |
- |
ICASSP'22 |
45.0% (1785/3967) |
- |
Note:
- For KDD and TheWebConf (formerly known as WWW), only the papers from research track are counted.
- 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.