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Is your paper ready to submit?

Twelve questions, drawn from the checks I run as a peer reviewer. Answer honestly. You get a readiness score and the specific fixes to make before a reviewer finds them.

0 of 12 answered

01The claimCan you state your paper's contribution in one sentence?
02The claimIs every contribution listed in your introduction actually demonstrated in your results?
03PositioningHave you cited and compared against the closest recent competing work?
04PositioningAre your baselines run on the same data and splits, and tuned with the same care as your method?
05MethodCould a competent reader reimplement your method from the text alone?
06MethodAre data splits, preprocessing steps, and hyperparameters reported?
07EvidenceDo you report variation across seeds or folds, rather than a single run?
08EvidenceIs every claim that your method is better backed by a statistical test or a confidence interval?
09Calibration and honestyAre the limitations of your work named in the paper itself?
10Calibration and honestyDo you show at least one failure case?
11Figures and writingAre your figures legible in grayscale at print size, with captions that stand alone?
12ComplianceDoes the manuscript follow this venue's template, page limit, and ethics and data statements?