Neel Nanda, after supervising 20+ papers, publishes a guide to writing great ML papers
CSProfKGD · x · 2026-11-07
DeepMind researcher Neel Nanda released a guide on turning research into high-quality ML papers with scientific integrity, drawn from supervising 20+ papers, aimed at NeurIPS authors. The attached image shows an annotated abstract example, color-coding each sentence by function (topic, motivation, contribution, evidence, impact) using his refusal-directions paper as the demo.
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