SODA Skills

A 12-skill depth pack for SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submissions: venue fit and routing across the theory calendar, HotCRP submission with the no-page-limit full-version norm, lightweight double-blind hygiene, the short rebuttal window, SIAM proceedings camera-ready, ALENEX/SOSA satellite routing, and full-cycle workflow. Grounded in the SODA 2027 SIAM pages and HotCRP site,

by @brycewang-stanford 11 skills

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npx skillmds@latest add plugin:brycewang-stanford/soda-skills

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This plugin

skills: 11
authors: 1

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Skills in this plugin

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Soda Submission · brycewang-stanford
Use when preparing or auditing a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submission — the no-page-limit full-version norm, the title-page abstract, 11-point single-column letter format, lightweight double-blind rules, HotCRP entry, and the July AoE deadline with its summary-rejection triggers.

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Soda Experiments · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding whether and how experiments belong in a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA's scope includes experimental validation but theorems carry the decision, so this skill designs supporting numerics honestly and routes implementation-led work to co-located ALENEX or to SEA.

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Soda Camera Ready · brycewang-stanford
Use when converting a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) acceptance into a correct SIAM proceedings entry — following the October final-version instructions, condensing the no-limit submission into the proceedings version, restoring author identity, syncing the arXiv full version, and planning the January talk.

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Soda Related Work · brycewang-stanford
Use when positioning a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper in the algorithms literature — tracing bound lineages across SODA/STOC/FOCS/ESA/ICALP and journals, handling arXiv-first priority culture, citing conference versus journal versions correctly, and self-citation under lightweight double-blind rules.

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Soda Supplementary · brycewang-stanford
Use when organizing the back matter of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submission — there is no supplementary channel, so appendix architecture inside the single no-page-limit PDF does the supplement's job; covers front/back matter split, appendix ordering, and external-archive references.

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Soda Writing Style · brycewang-stanford
Use when writing or revising a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — headline bounds stated exactly, the title-page abstract that wins bidding, a first-ten-pages overview for triage readers, prior-bound comparison tables, and prose discipline for an uncapped full-version document.

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Soda Review Process · brycewang-stanford
Use when reasoning about how a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) submission is evaluated — the per-edition program committee under joint ACM-SIAM sponsorship, HotCRP triage of a record-size submission pool, lightweight double-blind refereeing of full versions, the September rebuttal, and October decisions.

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Soda Author Response · brycewang-stanford
Use when drafting the SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) rebuttal — the roughly three-day window between review release in early September and the response deadline, triaging referee misreadings versus real gaps, and writing terse theorem-anchored replies inside HotCRP without breaking lightweight double-blind rules.

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Soda Reproducibility · brycewang-stanford
Use when hardening the verifiability of a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper, where reproducibility means checkable mathematics — complete proofs in the submitted full version, stable statement-proof correspondence, explicit constants and model assumptions, and certificates for any machine-checked step.

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Soda Topic Selection · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding whether a result is SODA-shaped (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) — concrete algorithmic problems, data structures, and discrete mathematics with quantitative progress — versus routing to STOC/FOCS, ESA, ICALP, ITCS, SOSA, ALENEX, SoCG, or a journal, judged from SODA's algorithms-first identity.

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Soda Artifact Evaluation · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding how code, computations, or data attach to a SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) paper — SODA itself runs no artifact track, so this skill covers computer-assisted proof evidence, implementation companions, and when to route the artifact to co-located ALENEX's formal artifact evaluation instead.

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