student-write-paper

Student Write Paper

Student-specific extensions

Write around a claim-evidence structure:

• claim
• evidence
• limitation
• next question

Every draft should contain:

• contribution bullets
• explicit limitations
• no result statement without a matching artifact or citation

Do not write a stronger story than the experiments can defend.

Purpose

Draft paper sections for eventual publication, following standard ML/AI conference format.

Paper Structure

{artifact_dir}/{your-name}/
├── paper_draft_v1.md
├── paper_draft_v2.md    (revised after review)
└── figures/
    ├── main_results.png
    └── architecture.png

Standard Sections

1. Abstract

• Problem statement (1-2 sentences)
• Approach (1-2 sentences)
• Key results (1-2 sentences)
• Significance (1 sentence)

2. Introduction

• Motivation and problem context
• Limitations of existing approaches
• Our contribution (bulleted list)
• Paper organization

3. Related Work

• Organized by theme, not chronologically
• Position our work relative to prior art
• Note what we borrow vs. what is novel

4. Method

• Formal problem definition
• Proposed approach with mathematical notation
• Algorithm pseudocode if applicable
• Complexity analysis

5. Experiments

• Experimental setup (datasets, baselines, metrics, implementation details)
• Main results table
• Ablation studies
• Analysis and discussion

6. Conclusion

• Summary of contributions
• Limitations
• Future work

Writing Rules

• Use precise language — avoid vague claims ("significantly better" → "3.2% improvement in F1")
• Every claim must be supported by evidence (experiments or citations)
• Define all notation on first use
• Tables and figures must be self-contained (readable without main text)
• Use consistent notation throughout

Versioning

• Save each major revision as a new version: paper_draft_v1.md, paper_draft_v2.md
• After reviewer feedback, create a new version addressing all comments
• Include a changelog at the top of each new version