NeurIPS rebuttal question: Can I update my linked GitHub repo to address reviewer concerns?
I submitted a NeurIPS paper with an anonymous code repository linked as supplementary material. During the rebuttal period, a reviewer pointed out a discrepancy between the repository and my reported experiments.
I then updated the repository during rebuttal to address this issue. Now I'm worried: could this be considered an impermissible change to the supplementary material? Could a reviewer or the area chair use the fact that I modified the repository after the submission deadline against my paper?
I'm a bit unsure how linked GitHub repositories are treated in this context, since they're technically mutable even after submission. Does only the repository state at the submission deadline count? Or is it acceptable to make corrections that the reviewers themselves identified during the review process?