Could Agents Learn to Write Better Papers from Bill Freeman's Writing Guide?
Haoyu_Xiong_ · x · 2026-09-27
Haoyu Xiong notes that agents still struggle with academic writing and points to MIT professor Bill Freeman's tutorial "How to Write Papers" (Chapter 53 of Foundations of Computer Vision), asking whether agents could learn from it. Key ideas: only truly good papers matter for a career; Adelson's structure — state the problem and why readers should care, cover prior solutions and their shortcomings, present your solution and why it's better, then related work applied elsewhere.
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