How does peer review work at top ML conferences?

Question

What is the Peer-Review Architecture, Anonymity Governance, and Annual Lifecycle of Top-Tier Machine Learning Conferences? How does the peer-review pipeline, double-blind anonymization governance, and annual timeline structure operate across premier machine learning and artificial intelligence venues (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR)?

Why it matters

Publishing there is the default credibility signal in ML, so its mechanics shape research plans.

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