icml-writing-style — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited icml-writing-style (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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ICML writing has to make a rigorous ML contribution clear inside a tight 8-page body. The style is less about broad excitement and more about soundness, originality, significance, clarity, and reproducibility.
finding, system, or analysis.
ICML proceedings appear in PMLR's two-column format, so prose must survive narrow columns: short sentences, equations that do not overflow, and figures legible at column width. Front-load the contribution because the heavy reviewer load means the first column of page one carries disproportionate weight; a buried thesis reads as a weak thesis. Check the current style file rather than assuming last year's margins.
| Overclaim pattern | ICML reviewer reaction | Calibrated rewrite |
|---|---|---|
| "Our method is state of the art" | Asks which tuned baselines, which regime | "Improves over tuned X on Y under stated budget" |
| "Provably converges" | Checks whether assumptions match experiments | "Converges at rate R under assumptions A, observed in-regime" |
| "Generalizes broadly" | Wants scaling evidence | "Holds across the model sizes and datasets we test" |
For a paper pairing a non-convex convergence theorem with deep-learning benchmarks, the introduction states the optimization problem, names the rate prior methods cannot match, gives the theorem and the benchmark win as separable contributions, and bounds the claim to the assumption regime. This lets a loaded reviewer extract soundness, originality, and significance from one column without hunting the appendix.
[Claim before] <original>
[Claim after] <ICML-calibrated version>
[Evidence anchor] <proof/experiment/baseline/artifact>
[Impact statement note] <needed addition or narrowing>
[8-page compression] <what to cut or move>~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.