buaalearn / aaai-template

latex template for various conferences

aaai-template

For the frequent attendants of top-tier AI conferences!

This repository includes templates and makefiles for:

• AAAI style
• ECAI style
• IJCAI style
• JAIR style
• NIPS style
• ICML style
• ICLR style
• CVPR style

Requirements: GNU Make, TexLive, inkscape, perl (see dependency.sh)

Update: AAAI Press recently made a significant change to the camera-ready requirements (such as https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/icaps-submit.php). To address the requirement we changed the file structure --- see below.

File structure

• main.tex
  • toplevel file for the main paper, only containing the preamble.
• body.tex
  • the text inside \begin{document}--\end{document} for main.tex.
• supplemental.tex
  • toplevel text file for the supplementary material. Unlike the main paper, the text should be in this file too.
  • supplemental.tex and main.tex can cross-reference the figures, tables and sections each other.
• common-header.sty
  • Part of the preamble shared by main.tex and supplemental.tex.
  • This file also contains the specific code for each conference. You should uncomment the code for the conference you plan to submit
• commands-general.sty
  • general custom commands
• commands-abbrev.sty
  • custom commands (only for the abbreviation)

Usage notes

• It encourages the use of Inkskape to prepare svg images in img subdirectory, which are automatically compiled into pdf figures. (This is a recommended way, since pngs are bitmaps and doesnt print nicely.)

  On OSX, inkscape is available from brew install inkscape

• make submission and make archive : These make targets will create a submission directory and prepares the camera-ready tex files. There are sometimes extensive instruction for preparing the camera-ready submission, such as https://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/icaps-submit.php .

  • These camera-ready submissions do not allow the use of \input{} command. When you run make submission, the results generated in the directory will have
    • a single, flattened tex file whose \input commands are inlined completely
    • All image files referenced by the text are renamed and put in this root directory (AAAI Press does not allow putting images in the nested subdirectories)
    • Garbage files and style files are removed (they are not allowed)
  • Usage note: all \input{} commands must be at the beginning of line, nothing before or after it. Otherwise it may remove some necessary text
  • make archive compresses the submission/ directory and create a zip or a tar.gz file. AAAI Press receive the zip file only, but this feature is also useful when submitting to Arxiv.

• make auto watches the source files and builds the pdf when they are updated. Requirements: inotify-tools package (it uses inotifywait for watching files and also sends messages via inotify notification popup window)

• It also checks for the paper length limit and overful/underful hboxes, very useful in the last-limit optimization for overlength papers.

• This template also supports JSAI, a local Japanese non-refereed confernece.