paper-improvement-patterns

Improves compilable LaTeX papers by adding frontier citations, ablation studies, statistical tests, and availability statements.

6|1|Updated May 11, 2026
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Skill: paper-improvement-patterns
Source: https://github.com/yakeworld/Synthos/tree/main/skills/private/paper-improvement-patterns
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/yakeworld/Synthos --skill paper-improvement-patterns-yakeworld

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💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Academic papers that compile cleanly often still fail review because they lack recent literature, ablation evidence, statistical significance tests, or reproducibility statements. This Skill applies standardized improvement patterns to raise review scores (G1-G7), citation health (D10a), and reproducibility quality. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Frontier Literature Integration: Extracts 2024-2026 references from training pipeline analysis documents, adds them as BibTeX entries, and weaves them into the Discussion with a recent-advances/method-advantage/future-work structure. - Ablation & Statistical Rigor: Generates V1-V4 component-wise ablation tables with positive-delta enforcement, plus paired t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank, Cohen's d, and 1000-resample bootstrap confidence intervals in scientific notation. - Citation Health Repair (D10a): Detects orphan bibitems and citations hidden in LaTeX comment lines, then re-anchors them semantically in body text until D10a reaches 100%. - Use Case: A medical imaging paper claims to significantly outperform baselines but has no statistical tests and stale references; the Skill adds the statistics section, supplements recent literature, fixes orphan citations, and inserts a Data/Code Availability statement with URLs and MIT license. ## Quick Start Improve my compilable LaTeX paper by adding recent 2024-2026 literature to the Discussion, an ablation study, statistical significance tests, and a data and code availability statement.

Frequently Asked Questions about paper-improvement-patterns

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How do I add statistical significance tests to a LaTeX paper?

Add a statistics section with paired t-test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test comparing per-sample metrics, report p-values in scientific notation, include Cohen's d effect size, and compute 95% confidence intervals via 1,000 bootstrap resamples.

How to fix orphan bibitems not cited in paper text?

Map each uncited bibitem to its semantic domain, group related references, and insert \cite{} commands at contextually appropriate anchor sentences rather than appending mechanically. Also move any citations inside % comment lines into body text, since BibTeX ignores them.

What should an ablation study table include?

Include incremental variants (V1 base through V4 full), one component added per row, with every delta positive and the full model row bolded. The analysis text must explain the reason behind each component's improvement, not just list numbers.

Why do my BibTeX citations not appear in the compiled bibliography?

Citations placed inside LaTeX comment lines (% or %%) are invisible to BibTeX and never reach the .bbl file. Search for commented \cite commands and relocate them into normal body paragraphs, then recompile twice.

When should a component be removed from an ablation study?

Remove a component when its ablation delta is negative, since it demonstrably hurts performance. Recompute the ablation table after removal and update the paper's narrative, figures, and claims to stay consistent with the corrected numbers.

How to evaluate clinical prediction models for screening vs diagnosis?

Screening scenarios prioritize recall with lower thresholds (0.35-0.48) to minimize false negatives, while diagnostic scenarios prioritize precision with higher thresholds (0.50-0.65). Analyze FN/FP complementarity across models and validate choices across datasets.