--- name: corl-camera-ready description: Use when converting an accepted CoRL paper into its final form — the 9-page camera-ready main text with the extra page for review feedback, the final-mode corl LaTeX template, appendix merged into one PDF, de-anonymization, external hosting for videos because PMLR accepts none, and the October deadline into the PMLR volume. --- # 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) | Dimension | Submission | Camera-ready | |---|---|---| | Main-text pages | 8 (Limitations included) | **9** — the added page exists to accommodate review feedback | | Template mode | anonymous review mode | `\usepackage[final]{corl_2026}` | | Identity | double-anonymous | authors, affiliations, acknowledgments restored | | Appendix | same PDF, optional | included at the **end of the camera-ready PDF**, not a separate file | | Video | supplementary upload (≤ 250 MB) | **not accepted by PMLR** — host externally, link from the main text / project page | | Audience | reviewers + AC | permanent open-access record, reviews attached | ## 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. ```bash # 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 ```text [ ] 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.