The Power of a Good Rebuttal
Receiving reviewer comments for your paper can bring feelings of excitement and frustation. While it might like a final judement, the rebuttal phase is your crucial opportunity to make the case for you work.
An academic rebuttal is not a simple defense; It is a stragetic and respectful dialogue with reviewers. It is your chance to clarify misunderstanding and thoughtfully address their concerns. A well-crafted response shows your professionlism and can gennuinely change the outcome for your paper, potentially turning a “Weak Reject” into a “Weak Accept”.
This guide will show you how to analyze feedback and write a persuasive rebuttal to give your paper its best chance of acceptance.
Rebuttal Examples
To give you a more intuitive understanding of how to proceed, we will now break down and analyze a few simulated examples.
Lack of empirical verifications
1 | Overall, this work sims to develop a new approach for the RoPE-based attention, which is used widely nowadays foundation models. As an improved algorithm for it, there are no empirical verifications from efficiency comparison, performance demonstrations and real-world applications. Therefore, the practicability of the proposed algorithm is doubtful, which makes the confidence and reliability of the submission discounted. |
The goal of our paper is to continue therecent line of work on determining theretically whether fast algorithm are possible for attention.