20-ml-paper-writing_skill

Overview

This skill creates publication-ready ML/AI papers tailored to top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM). It combines a proactive drafting workflow, LaTeX templates, reviewer checklists, and programmatic citation verification to produce reproducible, submission-ready manuscripts. Use it to turn research repositories and experimental artifacts into polished first drafts and camera-ready submissions.

How this skill works

The skill inspects a research repo (code, results, configs, existing citations) to extract the main contribution and experimental evidence. It generates a complete LaTeX draft with structured sections, figure guidance, checklist items, and placeholders for any unverifiable citations. Citations are always fetched and verified via APIs; any unverified references are explicitly marked as placeholders for human confirmation.

When to use it

• Starting from a research repository to write a conference paper
• Drafting or revising specific sections (abstract, intro, methods, experiments)
• Verifying and fetching BibTeX citations programmatically
• Converting drafts to conference-specific LaTeX formats for submission
• Preparing camera-ready versions and checklist compliance

Best practices

• Be proactive: deliver a full first draft when the contribution and results are clear
• Never invent citations—mark unverifiable references as explicit placeholders
• Define the one-sentence contribution with the scientist before finalizing framing
• Include reproducibility details: hyperparameters, seeds, compute, and error bars
• Draft Figure 1 early: make it convey the core idea and stand alone
• Add a required limitations section to preempt reviewer concerns

Example use cases

• Transforming an experiments/outputs folder and README into a full NeurIPS draft
• Rewriting the Related Work section with verified BibTeX entries from Semantic Scholar
• Converting an ICLR submission to ACL format with updated templates and page limits
• Preparing a camera-ready paper with checklist compliance and figure file fixes
• Iterating on a draft after reviewer-style feedback with targeted revisions