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ICCV 2025 — argument and writing patterns

These lessons synthesize selected inspected examples. They are editorial guidance, not frequency estimates, official requirements or causal explanations of acceptance. The type guides supply drafting plans, while the atlas reports measured denominators.

Expose the input and supervision contract

Define the available observations and required outputs before explaining the model. Hidden supervision, location metadata or pretrained modules can change the scientific comparison.

Apply it to a draft

Add a short training-versus-inference inventory, then ensure the architecture uses the same names and explicitly marks frozen or learned components.

Boundary: A clear diagram does not show that two methods have matched supervision or training budgets; the protocol must establish that separately.

Explain the representation before the full pipeline

A small worked construction can make an unfamiliar representation or state update intelligible before the full system appears.

Apply it to a draft

Choose a minimal example with two objects or a few time steps. Label the operation that changes, then reconnect it to the full method and its assumptions.

Boundary: An explanatory schematic is not a measured result. State omitted physics or computation rather than implying the cartoon is the whole algorithm.

Retain the conditions and the non-winning columns

A good comparison table reveals which conditions are comparable and where a method is not best. Aggregate performance and per-task superiority are different claims.

Apply it to a draft

Group metrics by meaning and units, state model/data budgets, and highlight individual cells rather than treating an entire row as a universal winner.

Boundary: Selected rows or tasks are illustrations, not a reconstructed overall ranking. Do not invent uncertainty when a source provides none.

Connect quality to a defined resource cost

A resource claim requires the workload, measurement boundary and quality operating point. Disk size, peak GPU memory, training time and inference latency are not interchangeable.

Apply it to a draft

Place quality beside runtime and memory, identify hardware and timing scope, and preserve out-of-memory or slower operating points where relevant.

Boundary: Reported timings on different hardware are not a matched speed comparison. Missing runtime hardware remains unknown rather than being inferred from training hardware.

Make supporting evidence findable

The main paper should define the method and evaluation; supporting files should expose the details needed to verify them.

Apply it to a draft

Use specific appendix or supplement-section references for calibration, implementation, full tables and failure videos. Keep the principal assumptions and comparison contract in the main paper.

Boundary: These studies inspected main-text pointers, not the separate supplementary contents. A pointer does not establish that the referenced evidence is sufficient.

Audit captions against the claims

A polished visual can still carry an incorrect direction arrow or an overbroad caption. Final review should compare prose, axes, units and individual numerical cells.

Apply it to a draft

Ask a reader to restate each plotted claim without the surrounding prose. Check that direction arrows, baseline names and restrictions agree across text, table and caption.

Boundary: A located writing inconsistency is not by itself a finding that the underlying scientific method is invalid.