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stoc-camera-ready
GitHub用于将STOC录用论文转化为出版级版本。包含格式化ACM会议版、去匿名化、签署版权协议，以及按要求在arXiv/ECCC发布含完整证明的公开全稿，并维护两版一致性。
Trigger Scenarios
STOC录用论文准备相机就绪版本
需要将论文去匿名化并提交至ACM数字图书馆
需要在截止日期前发布含完整证明的预印本
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill stoc-camera-ready -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "stoc-camera-ready",
"description": "Use when converting a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) acceptance into publishable form — the ACM proceedings version, de-anonymization, rights forms, the CFP-level expectation that the full paper with proofs goes public on arXiv or ECCC by the camera-ready deadline, and TheoryFest talk preparation."
}
STOC Camera-Ready
Anchor cycle: STOC 2026 required camera-ready copies by March 31, 2026 (AoE)
for the conference in Salt Lake City, June 22–26, 2026, with proceedings in the
ACM Digital Library (58th proceedings: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3798129;
checked 2026-07-08). Two deliverables leave your hands in this phase, and they are
not the same document.
Deliverable A: the proceedings version
- Reformat from the loose 11-point submission format into the ACM proceedings template the acceptance email specifies; exact class file, page allowance, and the production vendor's upload flow are per-cycle instructions (待核实 from the acceptance packet, not from this file).
- De-anonymize deliberately: author block with canonical name spellings and ORCID, restored acknowledgements and grant numbers, self-citations back in first person where that reads naturally.
- Complete the ACM rights form before final upload; the copyright block the form generates must be pasted into the paper, and the title/author list in the form must match the PDF character for character.
- Expect the proceedings version to remain an extended abstract: theorem statements, overview, and selected proofs. It is the citable record, not the complete mathematical record.
Deliverable B: the public full version
The STOC 2026 CFP stated the expectation that authors of accepted papers make their full papers, with proofs, publicly available on arXiv, ECCC, or a similar preprint service by the camera-ready deadline. Treat this as a hard milestone with its own checklist:
- The full version must contain every proof the extended abstract defers, under the same theorem numbering or with an explicit correspondence table.
- Title should match the proceedings title (a "(full version)" annotation is fine); the abstract page should cite the proceedings version once the DOI exists.
- ECCC suits complexity papers seeking community review; arXiv
cs.DS/cs.CCetc. is the default. Cross-listing is common and harmless.
# Package the full version for arXiv from a clean checkout
latexmk -pdf full-version.tex # confirm it compiles cold
tar czf stoc-full.tar.gz full-version.tex \
macros.tex refs.bib sections/ figures/ # sources, not the PDF
# then on arXiv: submit, check the auto-compiled PDF page by page,
# and verify theorem numbering against the proceedings version.
Keeping the two versions coherent
| Check | Proceedings version | Full version |
|---|---|---|
| Theorem statements | Must match full version verbatim | Master copy |
| Proofs | Sketches + pointers allowed | Complete, no deferred steps |
| Bug found after acceptance | Fix if production window allows; else note | Fix and replace; arXiv versions are revisable |
| Long-term citations | DOI of record | Where the community actually reads the math |
| Numbering | May compress; include mapping if so | Canonical |
The failure mode this table exists to prevent: a proceedings version whose Theorem 3 is the full version's Theorem 5, silently — every later citation and every reader cross-checking proofs pays for it.
Conference obligations
- STOC 2026 ran inside a five/six-day TheoryFest program (talks, workshops, posters, invited events; the extra Saturday hosted a "Can AI do Theory?" workshop). Expect a short talk slot; theory talks succeed on one theorem, one proof idea, one picture — rehearse to the slot length announced with the program.
- Registration and physical-presentation requirements for accepted papers were not verifiable from the CFP excerpts at check time: 待核实 in the acceptance email before booking decisions.
- Award eligibility is automatic: the PC may designate up to four STOC Best
Papers, and the Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award applies when all
authors were full-time students at submission (
sigact.org/prizes).
Sequence from acceptance email to conference
- Read the acceptance packet the same day; extract the production vendor's instructions, the exact template, and every form deadline into a checklist.
- Triage the corrections file (
stoc-workflow): reviewer-caught issues and post-submission bug fixes go into both versions now, cosmetic improvements into the full version only. - Rebuild the paper in the ACM template early — two-column ACM format holds far less than the loose submission format, and the compression decisions (which proofs stay in the proceedings version) take real editorial time.
- Freeze theorem numbering across both documents before either is finalized.
- Submit the ACM rights form, paste the generated block, upload, and then post the full version — in that order, so the arXiv abstract can cite the final title.
- Book the talk rehearsal after the program schedule lands.
Post-publication hygiene
- Update the arXiv/ECCC record with the DOI once the ACM DL entry is live.
- If a journal version follows (JACM, SICOMP, TheoretiCS and TALG are the usual homes), note that SIGACT's prior-publication policy runs one way: the journal version extending a STOC extended abstract is standard practice, expected by editors, and should say "a preliminary version appeared in STOC 2026."
- Archive the exact submitted, accepted, and camera-ready sources; Test of Time and prize committees read the proceedings version decades later.
Failure modes seen at this stage
- The proceedings version compiled from stale submitted sources while all
fixes went to the full version — the published record now carries known
bugs (
stoc-reproducibility's drift vignette, realized in production). - Rights-form metadata typed from memory, so the DL entry spells an author differently from every other paper they have written.
- The arXiv posting deferred "until after the conference," quietly breaking the CFP's camera-ready expectation and leaving five months where the community cites a proofless extended abstract.
- A talk built as a proof walkthrough; twenty minutes of lemma dependencies loses even the specialists. One theorem, one idea, one picture.
Output format
[Camera-ready state] not started / ACM version in progress / full version live / both done
[Version-coherence check] <numbering, statements, proof coverage>
[Rights/forms] <ACM form status, copyright block pasted?>
[Full-version location] arXiv/ECCC id or 待核实
[Talk prep] <slot length, one-theorem story chosen?>
Version History
- 9f86f09 Current 2026-07-19 17:39
