From 24dea480b61aefd2cd74dbe4b341256ce50412fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YurenHao0426 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 03:11:22 -0500 Subject: First draft of NeurIPS 2026 E&D paper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Title: 'Beyond Accuracy and Alignment: A Diagnostic Evaluation Protocol for Feedback Alignment' Structure (per round 21 prescription): Abstract: 'broken because conflated' framing, 2 distinct modes named §1 Introduction: discovery hook -> 2-mode framing -> contribution §2 Related work §3 Audit (the field-standard pair walks back nothing) §4 The diagnostic protocol (4 diagnostics, calibrated thresholds, decision-utility ablation, cross-architecture validation) §5 Two distinct failure modes (mechanism, penalty rescue, direct cosine measurement, hypothesis-disambiguation, capacity-cost control) §6 Limitations §7 Broader impacts §8 Conclusion Appendices: reproducibility, 7-pitfalls catalog, walk-back chain (4 step), all 6 validations of the two-mode separation Includes 4 result tables, ~10 references, structured as eandd track double-blind submission. 760 lines of LaTeX, balanced environments verified. Ready for compilation on a system with pdflatex. Template: paper/neurips_2026.{sty,tex}, downloaded from official NeurIPS 2026 source. checklist.tex also unzipped. --- paper/neurips2026_template.zip | Bin 0 -> 20239 bytes 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 paper/neurips2026_template.zip (limited to 'paper/neurips2026_template.zip') diff --git a/paper/neurips2026_template.zip b/paper/neurips2026_template.zip new file mode 100644 index 0000000..832a33e Binary files /dev/null and b/paper/neurips2026_template.zip differ -- cgit v1.2.3