根据多次AI论文投稿的心得体会,整理一些注意事项,提升往后论文投稿的命中率。
请在投稿前自我反思以下问题。
0. Submission
- Does your paper conform to the topics/track of the conference/journal? (check “Call for papers”)
- Do the code, data, and details of the experiemental setup (given in the paper and appendix) are complete and easy for others to reproduce?
- Is the presentation clear and easy to understand?
1. Title
- Does the title include the key words of the work?
- Dose the title summarize the main contribution of the paper?
- Can the title be more attractive?
2. Introduction
- What is your research object and its background?
- What are the representative methods?
- What are the main challenges that hinder these methods? What is the potential impact if they are solved?
- What is your solution?
- What is your method, algorithm, or framework?
- What are your main contributions? How original is your work?
3. Related Works
- How does the Related Work relate to Introduction?
- What are the main directions of these works?
- Are all possible relevant literature listed as far as possible? (pay attention to some recent works on arXiv)
4. Methods
- Are the methods/modules/algorithms introduced clearly ? (please introduce from the global to the local)
- Are all the notations, definitions, hypothesis, theoretical analysis clearly explained?
- Are all the optimization of parameters and tuning of hyper-parameters clearly explained? (note the citations)
- Which parts are more difficult for reviewers to understand? Can we use the intuitive diagram to help explain?
5. Experiments
- What are the arguments of each part of the experiments? Have all the claims been verified?
- What is the detailed setting of the experiments? Is it fair and reasonable?
- How is the datasets obtained? Is it reasonable and credible?
- Are all the methods that need to be compared listed?
- Is the presentation of the Figures and Tables standard and clear?
- Are all the experimental results clearly summarized to support the claims? Are all abnormal results reasonably explained?
6. Conclusions and Future Works
- What are the main contributions of this paper?
- What is the importance of this paper for the research direction?
- What research points are worth studying in the future?
7. Reference
- Are all references standardized and consistent?
8. Appendix
- Have all the places that can’t be discussed in the main part been explained in detail in Appendix?
9. Code
- Is README completely introduces the environment and experimental procedure, and easy to follow?
- Have appropriate comments been added to important or difficult areas?
- Is the implementation of the experiment consistent with the paper?