research-paper-writing

Follow a phased pipeline: define a one-sentence contribution, map every experiment to a paper claim, run baselines with statistical tests, then draft using the venue's official LaTeX template. Finish with a simulated self-review and the venue's mandatory checklist before submission.

Never generate BibTeX from memory; fetch it programmatically via DOI content negotiation through CrossRef. Verify each paper exists in at least two sources such as Semantic Scholar and arXiv, and mark anything unverifiable as a placeholder citation.

The templates directory includes official style files for ICML 2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ACL, AAAI 2026, and COLM 2025, each with its .sty and .bst files plus example documents. Compile with pdflatex and bibtex or use latexmk.

Yes, NeurIPS submissions missing the 16-item paper checklist face automatic desk rejection. The checklist covers claims alignment, limitations, reproducibility, statistical significance, compute resources, ethics, and LLM usage disclosure, and appears outside the page limit.

Iterative refinement like autoreason helps most with mid-tier models on constrained tasks where the generation-evaluation gap is large. Frontier models on unconstrained tasks do better with single-pass or critique-and-revise, since unconstrained iteration causes synthesis drift.

Report McNemar's test for paired binary outcomes, bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for key metrics, and effect sizes such as Cohen's h. Always state sample sizes, number of runs, and whether error bars show standard deviation or standard error.