corl-camera-ready

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.

# 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.