Advice for Authors
I've spent much of the last few days reading various ICML papers and I find there's a few pieces of feedback that I give consistently across several papers. I've collated some of these below. As a general note, many of these are about local style rather than global structure; I think that good local style probably contributes substantially more to readability than global structure and is in general under-rated. I'm in general pretty willing to break rules about global structure (such as even having a conclusion section in the first place! though this might cause reviewers to look at your paper funny), but not to break local stylistic rules without strong reasons. General Writing Advice Abstract Introduction Conclusion / Discussion LaTeX Math Sign in to join the conversation. Thanks for sharing this
I've spent much of the last few days reading various ICML papers and I find there's a few pieces of feedback that I give consistently across several papers. I've collated some of these below. As a general note, many of these are about local style rather than global structure; I think that good local style probably contributes substantially more to readability than global structure and is in general under-rated. I'm in general pretty willing to break rules about global structure (such as even having a conclusion section in the first place! though this might cause reviewers to look at your paper
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