ML Paper Writing for Top AI Conferences

Expert-level guidance for writing publication-ready papers targeting NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, and COLM. This skill combines writing philosophy from top researchers (Nanda, Farquhar, Karpathy, Lipton, Steinhardt) with practical tools: LaTeX templates, citation verification APIs, and conference checklists.

Default operating order

Use this skill in the following order unless the task is unusually narrow:

1. lock the operating mode from references/OPERATING-MODES.md,
2. understand the repo or draft context,
3. use references/citation-workflow.md as the canonical citation authority,
4. load venue- or template-specific references only after the main writing path is clear.

Google Scholar may still help with manual discovery, but it is not the canonical verification authority in this skill. Default verification should use programmatic sources such as Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, and arXiv.

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