AIStats 2027 Questions [D]

Hi All,

Was reading AIStats' website and it seems like abstract submission is due in 3 weeks.

Does anyone know where to find the LaTex template for 2027? It seems like very little information is available on their website.

Another question, is a Quant Finance paper a better fit for AIStats or ICLR?

Some background about the paper:

• Rejected by UAI with 76654, had some errors with proofs had to fix it by re-writing 9 pages during rebuttal. AC rejected the paper saying the changes were too substantial and unable to be fully verified during rebuttal period.
• Resubmitted the fixed paper to a finance conference, won best paper award (best paper for this conference usually end up in journals like JQFA, which is just 1 tier below the big 3 in finance), had the chief editors of a Q1 finance/math journal in the conference verbally offering he will take this paper if we submit it to his journal. Unfortunatley my department requires at least 1 Comp Sci paper to graduate, so my plan is to try and get this paper accepted into a Comp Sci conference, then submit an extension to that Q1 Finance/Math journal.
• Rejected again at ICDM, despite having all positive scores. Our AC meta-review was blank so we still do not know why we were rejected. All of our emails receieved no reply.

I am torn between ICLR or AIStats to re-submit this paper to. My worries are:

• In comp sci venues we frequently get comments like "this paper lacks novelty. The method is just XXXXX, the math is just XXXXX."
• But I had a scroll through at previous year's AIStats papers for key words like finance and there were none. It seems like AIStats is very pure stats, not that applied. My co-author is worried that the math in our paper is not hardcore enough.

We have never submitted to neither venues in the past. Would be nice to get some advice.