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002 Submission and Formatting Instructions for
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021)
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Abstract • References must include page numbers whenever pos-
sible and be as complete as possible. Place multiple
012 This document provides a basic paper template citations in chronological order.
013 and submission guidelines. Abstracts must be a
014 single paragraph, ideally between 4–6 sentences • Do not alter the style template; in particular, do not
015 long. Gross violations will trigger corrections at compress the paper format by reducing the vertical
016 the camera-ready phase. spaces.
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018 • Keep your abstract brief and self-contained, one para-
019 graph and roughly 4–6 sentences. Gross violations will
1. Electronic Submission require correction at the camera-ready phase. The title
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021 Submission to ICML 2021 will be entirely electronic, via should have content words capitalized.
022 a web site (not email). Information about the submission
1.1. Submitting Papers
023 process and LATEX templates are available on the conference
024 web site at: Paper Deadline: The deadline for paper submission that is
025 advertised on the conference website is strict. If your full,
026 http://icml.cc/ anonymized, submission does not reach us on time, it will
027 not be considered for publication.
028 The guidelines below will be enforced for initial submis-
sions and camera-ready copies. Here is a brief summary: Anonymous Submission: ICML uses double-blind review:
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no identifying author information may appear on the title
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• Submissions must be in PDF. page or in the paper itself. Section 2.3 gives further details.
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032 Simultaneous Submission: ICML will not accept any pa-
033 • Submitted papers can be up to eight pages long, not per which, at the time of submission, is under review for
034 including references, plus unlimited space for refer- another conference or has already been published. This
035 ences. Accepted papers can be up to nine pages long, policy also applies to papers that overlap substantially in
036 not including references, to allow authors to address technical content with conference papers under review or
037 reviewer comments. Any paper exceeding this length previously published. ICML submissions must not be sub-
038 will automatically be rejected. mitted to other conferences and journals during ICML’s
039 review period. Informal publications, such as technical
• Do not include author information or acknowledge-
040 reports or papers in workshop proceedings which do not
ments in your initial submission.
041 appear in print, do not fall under these restrictions.
042 • Your paper should be in 10 point Times font.
043 Authors must provide their manuscripts in PDF format. Fur-
044 • Make sure your PDF file only uses Type-1 fonts. thermore, please make sure that files contain only embedded
045 Type-1 fonts (e.g., using the program pdffonts in linux
046 • Place figure captions under the figure (and omit titles or using File/DocumentProperties/Fonts in Acrobat). Other
047 from inside the graphic file itself). Place table captions fonts (like Type-3) might come from graphics files imported
048 over the table. into the document.
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Anonymous Institution, Anonymous City, Anonymous Region, Authors using Word must convert their document to PDF.
050 Anonymous Country. Correspondence to: Anonymous Author Most of the latest versions of Word have the facility to do
051 <anon.email@domain.com>.
this automatically. Submissions will not be accepted in
052 Word format or any format other than PDF. Really. We’re
Preliminary work. Under review by the International Conference
053 on Machine Learning (ICML). Do not distribute. not joking. Don’t send Word.
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055 Those who use LATEX should avoid including Type-3 fonts. \icmltitlerunning{...}
056 Those using latex and dvips may need the following
just before \begin{document}. Authors using Word must
057 two commands:
edit the header of the document themselves.
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059 dvips -Ppdf -tletter -G0 -o paper.ps paper.dvi
ps2pdf paper.ps
060 2. Format of the Paper
061 It is a zero following the “-G”, which tells dvips to use the All submissions must follow the specified format.
062 config.pdf file. Newer TEX distributions don’t always need
063 this option.
064 2.1. Dimensions
065 Using pdflatex rather than latex, often gives better The text of the paper should be formatted in two columns,
066 results. This program avoids the Type-3 font problem, and with an overall width of 6.75 inches, height of 9.0 inches,
067 supports more advanced features in the microtype pack- and 0.25 inches between the columns. The left margin
068 age. should be 0.75 inches and the top margin 1.0 inch (2.54 cm).
069 Graphics files should be a reasonable size, and included The right and bottom margins will depend on whether you
070 from an appropriate format. Use vector formats (.eps/.pdf) print on US letter or A4 paper, but all final versions must be
071 for plots, lossless bitmap formats (.png) for raster graphics produced for US letter size.
072 with sharp lines, and jpeg for photo-like images.
073 The paper body should be set in 10 point type with a vertical
074 The style file uses the hyperref package to make click- spacing of 11 points. Please use Times typeface throughout
075 able links in documents. If this causes problems for you, the text.
076 add nohyperref as one of the options to the icml2021
077 usepackage statement. 2.2. Title
078 The paper title should be set in 14 point bold type and
079 1.2. Submitting Final Camera-Ready Copy centered between two horizontal rules that are 1 point thick,
080 with 1.0 inch between the top rule and the top edge of the
The final versions of papers accepted for publication should
081 page. Capitalize the first letter of content words and put the
follow the same format and naming convention as initial
082 rest of the title in lower case.
submissions, except that author information (names and af-
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filiations) should be given. See Section 2.3.2 for formatting
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instructions. 2.3. Author Information for Submission
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086 The footnote, “Preliminary work. Under review by the ICML uses double-blind review, so author information
087 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). must not appear. If you are using LATEX and the
088 Do not distribute.” must be modified to “Proceedings of icml2021.sty file, use \icmlauthor{...} to spec-
089 the 38 th International Conference on Machine Learning, ify authors and \icmlaffiliation{...} to specify
090 Online, PMLR 139, 2021. Copyright 2021 by the author(s).” affiliations. (Read the TeX code used to produce this doc-
091 ument for an example usage.) The author information will
For those using the LATEX style file, this change (and
092 not be printed unless accepted is passed as an argument
others) is handled automatically by simply changing
093 to the style file. Submissions that include the author infor-
\usepackage{icml2021} to
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095 \usepackage[accepted]{icml2021}
096 2.3.1. S ELF -C ITATIONS
097 Authors using Word must edit the footnote on the first page
of the document themselves. If you are citing published papers for which you are an
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author, refer to yourself in the third person. In particular, do
099 Camera-ready copies should have the title of the paper as not use phrases that reveal your identity (e.g., “in previous
100 running head on each page except the first one. The running work (?), we have shown . . . ”).
101 title consists of a single line centered above a horizontal rule
102 which is 1 point thick. The running head should be centered, Do not anonymize citations in the reference section. The
103 bold and in 9 point type. The rule should be 10 points only exception are manuscripts that are not yet published
104 above the main text. For those using the LATEX style file, the (e.g., under submission). If you choose to refer to such
105 original title is automatically set as running head using the unpublished manuscripts (?), anonymized copies have to be
106 fancyhdr package which is included in the ICML 2021 submitted as Supplementary Material via CMT. However,
107 style file package. In case that the original title exceeds the keep in mind that an ICML paper should be self contained
108 size restrictions, a shorter form can be supplied by using and should contain sufficient detail for the reviewers to
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110 evaluate the work. In particular, reviewers are not required 2.5.1. S ECTIONS AND S UBSECTIONS
111 to look at the Supplementary Material when writing their
112 Section headings should be numbered, flush left, and set in
review.
113 11 pt bold type with the content words capitalized. Leave
114 0.25 inches of space before the heading and 0.15 inches
2.3.2. C AMERA -R EADY AUTHOR I NFORMATION
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If a paper is accepted, a final camera-ready copy must be
116 Similarly, subsection headings should be numbered, flush
prepared. For camera-ready papers, author information
117 left, and set in 10 pt bold type with the content words capi-
should start 0.3 inches below the bottom rule surrounding
118 talized. Leave 0.2 inches of space before the heading and
the title. The authors’ names should appear in 10 point
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bold type, in a row, separated by white space, and centered.
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Author names should not be broken across lines. Unbolded Finally, subsubsection headings should be numbered, flush
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superscripted numbers, starting 1, should be used to refer to left, and set in 10 pt small caps with the content words
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affiliations. capitalized. Leave 0.18 inches of space before the heading
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Affiliations should be numbered in the order of appearance.
125 A single footnote block of text should be used to list all Please use no more than three levels of headings.
126 the affiliations. (Academic affiliations should list Depart-
127 ment, University, City, State/Region, Country. Similarly for 2.5.2. PARAGRAPHS AND F OOTNOTES
128 industrial affiliations.)
129 Within each section or subsection, you should further par-
Each distinct affiliations should be listed once. If an author tition the paper into paragraphs. Do not indent the first
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has multiple affiliations, multiple superscripts should be line of a given paragraph, but insert a blank line between
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placed after the name, separated by thin spaces. If the au- succeeding ones.
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thors would like to highlight equal contribution by multiple
133 You can use footnotes1 to provide readers with additional
first authors, those authors should have an asterisk placed
134 information about a topic without interrupting the flow of
after their name in superscript, and the term “* Equal contri-
135 the paper. Indicate footnotes with a number in the text
bution” should be placed in the footnote block ahead of the
136 where the point is most relevant. Place the footnote in
list of affiliations. A list of corresponding authors and their
137 9 point type at the bottom of the column in which it appears.
emails (in the format Full Name <email@domain.com>)
138 Precede the first footnote in a column with a horizontal rule
can follow the list of affiliations. Ideally only one or two
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names should be listed.
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141 A sample file with author names is included in the 2.6. Figures
142 ICML2021 style file package. Turn on the [accepted]
143 option to the stylefile to see the names rendered. All of the You may want to include figures in the paper to illustrate
144 guidelines above are implemented by the LATEX style file. your approach and results. Such artwork should be centered,
145 legible, and separated from the text. Lines should be dark
146 2.4. Abstract and at least 0.5 points thick for purposes of reproduction,
147 and text should not appear on a gray background.
148 The paper abstract should begin in the left column,
Label all distinct components of each figure. If the figure
149 0.4 inches below the final address. The heading ‘Abstract’
takes the form of a graph, then give a name for each axis and
150 should be centered, bold, and in 11 point type. The abstract
include a legend that briefly describes each curve. Do not
151 body should use 10 point type, with a vertical spacing of
include a title inside the figure; instead, the caption should
152 11 points, and should be indented 0.25 inches more than nor-
serve this function.
153 mal on left-hand and right-hand margins. Insert 0.4 inches
154 of blank space after the body. Keep your abstract brief and Number figures sequentially, placing the figure number and
155 self-contained, limiting it to one paragraph and roughly 4–6 caption after the graphics, with at least 0.1 inches of space
156 sentences. Gross violations will require correction at the before the caption and 0.1 inches after it, as in Figure 1. The
157 camera-ready phase. figure caption should be set in 9 point type and centered
158 unless it runs two or more lines, in which case it should be
159 2.5. Partitioning the Text flush left. You may float figures to the top or bottom of a
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Footnotes should be complete sentences.
161 to help readers place a structure on the material and under-
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Multiple footnotes can appear in each column, in the same
162 stand its contributions. order as they appear in the text, but spread them across columns
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Table 1. Classification accuracies for naive Bayes and flexible
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B REAST 95.9± 0.2 96.7± 0.2
Number of Accepted Papers

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C LEVELAND 83.3± 0.6 80.0± 0.6 ×
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171 G LASS 2 61.9± 1.4 83.8± 0.7
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172 C REDIT 74.8± 0.5 78.3± 0.6
173 80 H ORSE 73.3± 0.9 69.7± 1.0 ×
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174 M ETA 67.1± 0.6 76.5± 0.5

Helsinki, Finland (estimated)

175 60 P IMA 75.1± 0.6 73.9± 0.5 √
V EHICLE 44.9± 0.6 61.5± 0.4
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New Brunswick, NJ
Aberdeen, Scotland

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Sydney, Australia
Washington, DC
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Bonn, Germany
Ann Arbor, MI

Bled, Slovenia

Pittsburgh, PA
Banff, Canada
Nashville, TN
Amherst, MA

Stanford, CA
Madison, WI

Corvalis, OR
Evanston, IL
Austin, TX

Tahoe, CA

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Bari, Italy
Itaca, NY

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179 the same after it, as in Table 1. The table title should be set
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Conference/Workshop Year
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183 Figure 1. Historical locations and number of accepted papers for Tables contain textual material, whereas figures contain
International Machine Learning Conferences (ICML 1993 – ICML graphical material. Specify the contents of each row and
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2008) and International Workshops on Machine Learning (ML column in the table’s topmost row. Again, you may float
185 1988 – ML 1992). At the time this figure was produced, the
186 tables to a column’s top or bottom, and set wide tables
number of accepted papers for ICML 2008 was unknown and
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across both columns. Place two-column tables at the top or
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190 Algorithm 1 Bubble Sort
191 Input: data xi , size m
192 repeat
193 Initialize noChange = true.
194 for i = 1 to m − 1 do
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200 until noChange is true
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203 column, and you may set wide figures across both columns
204 (use the environment figure* in LATEX). Always place
205 two-column figures at the top or bottom of the page.
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207 2.7. Algorithms
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209 If you are using LATEX, please use the “algorithm” and “al-
210 gorithmic” environments to format pseudocode. These re-
211 quire the corresponding stylefiles, algorithm.sty and algo-
212 rithmic.sty, which are supplied with this package. Algo-
213 rithm 1 shows an example.
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215 2.8. Tables
216 You may also want to include tables that summarize ma-
217 terial. Like figures, these should be centered, legible, and
218 numbered consecutively. However, place the title above the
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