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Submission Guidelines

Everything you need to know about submitting to I3E TPAMI. Please read carefully. Then disregard.

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Manuscript Requirements

  1. Must contain at least three meaningless equations, regardless of whether the work is theoretical.
  2. Abstract may not exceed the length of the paper itself, but may be written after the paper without any connection to its contents.
  3. All figures must be referenced in the text. Figures that contradict the text are permissible and considered “generative tension.”
  4. Related work section must cite at least 40 papers, of which a minimum of 12 must be the authors’ own prior publications.
  5. Datasets must be described as “available upon reasonable request” and under no circumstances made actually available.
  6. Conclusion must claim that the work “opens new avenues for future research” without specifying what those avenues are.
  7. Acknowledgments must thank anonymous reviewers for “constructive feedback” even if feedback was destructive.
  8. Code availability is optional. If code is shared, it must lack documentation and require a deprecated version of Python.

Submission Process

What to expect after you submit your manuscript. (Expected: rejection. Timeline: long.)

1
Submit
2
Wait
(6–18 mo)
3
Desk
Reject
4
Actually
Reviewed
5
Major
Revisions
6
Reject
7
Appeal
8
Accept
(Rare)

Article Processing Charges

Select the tier that best matches your grant’s remaining budget. All tiers may result in rejection.

Tier APC What You Get
Bronze $0 We still reject you. Article remains paywalled. At least you didn’t pay for the privilege.
Silver $5,000 Open access after 24-month embargo. Your abstract will be freely visible. The paper will not.
Gold $12,000
+ CV review fee		 True open access. The title is visible, the abstract is visible, and we will consider reading the paper before rejecting it. Certificate of rejection shipped in 6–10 weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

We target 21 days. The actual average is 94 days. We publish the target, not the average, because we prefer optimism. After 6 weeks you may send one polite enquiry. After 12 weeks you may send a less polite one. After 6 months you may assume the reviewer is deceased and request a replacement.
No. Simultaneous submission is unethical and prohibited. We will not know if you do this, but if we find out, we will be disappointed, which we will express via a sternly worded rejection. We have a strong emotional investment in being the exclusive party to reject you.
Yes. Appeals are reviewed by the editor who rejected you. We uphold approximately 2% of appeals — primarily in cases where a reviewer made a factual error so significant that ignoring it would constitute scientific misconduct on our part. All other rejections stand. We thank you for your understanding.
We do not publish our acceptance rate, as this figure would be discouraging. We describe it as “highly selective,” which is accurate. We are also highly selective about which metrics we publish, for similar reasons.
Our scope covers patternless analysis, unmotivated machine learning, and related imaginary fields. If your paper does not fit this scope, we encourage you to describe it as “interdisciplinary,” which we accept from virtually any direction. We have published papers about fonts, tidal patterns, and one paper about soup that we still cannot explain.