Interactive Intro Writer

Interactive Introduction Writer

Overview

This skill helps write deep learning paper Introduction sections through interactive dialogue. The agent engages in multi-turn questioning to extract the user's ideas, organize them into a coherent scientific narrative, and produce a well-structured LaTeX Introduction.

Key Features:

• Interactive dialogue: Ask one question at a time, wait for user response, then ask the next
• Scientific narrative discovery: Help users articulate their contribution, innovation, and the story behind their work
• Two working modes:
  • From scratch: Build Introduction from scattered, unorganized user input
  • Polishing mode: Improve existing Introduction tex files through dialogue
• LaTeX output: Generate properly formatted LaTeX text
• Citation guidance: Provide paper suggestions in chat (not bibtex to avoid hallucinations)
• Teaser figure guidance: Describe how to draw teaser figure based on Introduction content Writing Style:
• English only: All output in English (LaTeX content is always English)
• Interactive language: Match user's language for dialogue (if user speaks English, reply in English; if Chinese, reply in Chinese)
• Simple sentences: Avoid complex sentence structures and rare words
• Academic norms: Follow deep learning paper writing conventions
• Interactive language: Match user's language for dialogue (if user speaks English, reply in English; if Chinese, reply in Chinese)
• Simple sentences: Avoid complex sentence structures and rare words
• Academic norms: Follow deep learning paper writing conventions
• Smooth transitions: Ensure logical flow between paragraphs and sections

When to Use This Skill

Writing Style:

• English only: All output in English (LaTeX content is always English)
• Interactive language: Match user's language for dialogue (if user speaks English, reply in English; if Chinese, reply in Chinese)
• Simple sentences: Avoid complex sentence structures and rare words
• Academic norms: Follow deep learning paper writing conventions
• Smooth transitions: Ensure logical flow between paragraphs and sections
• English only: All output in English
• Simple sentences: Avoid complex sentence structures and rare words
• Academic norms: Follow deep learning paper writing conventions
• Smooth transitions: Ensure logical flow between paragraphs and sections

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Writing Introduction section for a deep learning paper (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, etc.)
• Polishing or improving an existing Introduction
• Organizing scattered thoughts and ideas into a coherent paper narrative
• Developing scientific storytelling around your contribution
• Struggling to articulate the research gap and motivation
• Unsure about how to structure Introduction logically

Standard Introduction Structure

The Introduction follows this flow:

1. Background and Task (What is the problem? Why does it matter?)

   • Define the task clearly
   • Explain why it is important
   • Mention applications

2. Difficulties and Existing Work (What have others done?)

   • Describe challenges in the task
   • Review existing approaches (briefly, no need for comprehensive literature review)
   • Explain how previous methods solve the problem

3. Limitations of Existing Work (What's missing?)

   • Identify gaps or problems with current methods
   • Explain what factors they overlook or ignore
   • Use teaser figure reference here to illustrate the problem

4. Overall Approach (High-level solution, not details)

   • Present your general solution idea
   • Avoid technical jargon and specific method details
   • Use teaser figure reference to illustrate the approach
   • Connect back to the limitations you just identified

5. Method Overview (Brief method introduction)

   • Give a simple overview of your method
   • Mention key components without diving into details
   • Use teaser figure reference if applicable

6. Contributions (Three bullet points)

   • List exactly 3 contributions
   • Typically: 2 innovations + 1 SOTA result
   • Each contribution should be specific, measurable, and novel

Working Modes

Mode 1: Writing from Scratch

When user provides no tex file:

Process:

1. Initial input gathering: Ask user to provide their scattered notes, ideas, method descriptions
2. Dialogue-based structure building: Ask questions one at a time:
   • Start with background and task importance
   • Move to existing work and limitations
   • Ask about overall approach and solution idea
   • Request method overview
   • Ask for the three contributions
3. Drafting phase: After gathering information, draft Introduction paragraph by paragraph
4. Teaser figure guidance: After text is complete, describe how to create teaser figure
5. Citation suggestions: Provide paper suggestions in chat (title or topic, not bibtex)
6. LaTeX file creation: Generate tex file with Introduction content

Dialogue Strategy:

• Ask one question at a time, wait for answer
• If user doesn't know how to answer, break it down into smaller questions
• Help users think about their work from a storytelling perspective
• Guide users to discover the "why" behind their "what"

Mode 2: Polishing Existing Introduction

When user provides a tex file:

Process:

1. File validation: Check if tex file is a standalone Introduction section
   • If file contains full paper (multiple sections), ask user to extract Introduction part
   • If file is standalone, proceed
2. Analysis phase: Read and analyze existing Introduction
   • Identify missing sections (background? limitations? contributions?)
   • Find weak areas (unclear motivation? vague contributions?)
   • Check for logical flow issues
3. Dialogue-based improvement:
   • Ask questions to fill gaps
   • Help user articulate unclear parts
   • Suggest improvements to structure and flow
4. Editing phase: Use Edit tool to modify tex file directly
   • Improve paragraph structure
   • Add missing content
   • Fix logical flow
5. Teaser figure guidance: Check if teaser is referenced, suggest improvements if needed
6. Citation suggestions: Provide suggestions for where to add references
7. Final review: Show user what changed and why

Dialogue Strategy:

• Analyze existing text before asking questions
• Focus on areas that need improvement
• Don't ask about parts that are already well-written
• Ask questions that help user clarify their intent

Teaser Figure Guidance

After drafting Introduction text, provide guidance on creating teaser figure:

When to reference teaser figure:

• After describing limitations of existing work (to illustrate the problem)
• After describing overall approach (to illustrate the solution)
• After method overview (if needed)

What to describe in teaser:

• For problem illustration: Show how existing methods fail or what they miss
• For solution illustration: Show high-level approach, key components
• Use simple visual representation (diagram, not detailed architecture)
• Keep it conceptual, not technical

Guidance format:

Based on your Introduction, here's how to create the teaser figure:

**Purpose**: [Explain what figure should show - problem or solution]

**Key elements to include**:
- [Element 1] (brief description)
- [Element 2] (brief description)
- [Element 3] (brief description)

**Visual suggestion**: [Describe layout - left vs right, top to bottom, etc.]

**Caption suggestion**: [Provide a figure caption draft]

User action: User manually creates figure based on this guidance

Citation Guidance

Important: Never generate bibtex entries. Provide suggestions in chat only.

When to suggest citations:

• Where user mentions "existing work" without specific papers
• Where user claims something that needs support
• Where gaps in literature are mentioned

Format:

Citation Suggestion:
For the statement "[user's claim about existing work]", consider citing papers like:

- [Paper Title] by [Authors] (Year) - Brief note about why relevant
- [Paper Title] by [Authors] (Year) - What this paper contributes

Search terms: [Keywords for finding these papers]

LaTeX File Handling

File Format Requirements

• User must provide standalone Introduction tex file (only Introduction section)
• File should contain \section{Introduction} or similar
• If user provides full paper tex file, ask them to extract Introduction part

Editing Behavior

• Small changes: Use Edit tool to modify specific paragraphs or lines
• Large changes: Rewrite section and replace using Edit
• Always preserve user's template and packages
• Follow user's existing LaTeX style and conventions

LaTeX Output

• Generate clean, compilable LaTeX
• Use simple language and short sentences
• Ensure proper paragraph breaks and spacing
• Include section label: \label{sec:intro}
• Include figure labels when referencing teaser: \label{fig:teaser}

Dialogue Flow Example

Example: Writing from scratch

Agent: Let's start by understanding your task. What is the specific problem you're working on?
User: I'm working on object detection for small objects in satellite images.
Agent: Why is this problem important? What applications does it have?
User: It's important for monitoring deforestation, urban planning, disaster response.
Agent: Great. Now, what makes this task difficult? What are the main challenges?
User: Small objects are hard to detect. Existing detectors miss them or have high false positives.
Agent: What have previous methods tried to solve this?
User: They use multi-scale features, attention mechanisms, data augmentation.
Agent: What limitations do these methods have? What do they overlook?
User: They focus on single-scale features, don't capture enough context. Also, small datasets limit performance.
Agent: [Drafts paragraph about limitations...]

[Continues through structure...]

Agent: Now, let's discuss your three contributions. What is your main innovation?
User: We propose a hierarchical attention module.
Agent: Can you describe it simply, without technical details?
User: It processes features at different scales and combines them adaptively.
Agent: Good. What's your second contribution?
User: We use a new loss function that handles class imbalance.
Agent: Excellent. And your third contribution - experimental results?
User: We achieve 15% improvement over previous SOTA on xView dataset.

[Drafts Introduction with contributions]

Agent: Now, let's talk about your teaser figure. Based on what we discussed...
[Provides teaser figure guidance]

Agent: Finally, I have some citation suggestions for your Introduction:
[Provides paper suggestions]

Writing Style Guidelines

Academic Writing Principles

Simple Sentences:

• Avoid complex sentence structures with multiple clauses
• Use active voice when possible: "We propose..." not "It is proposed that..."
• Keep sentences to 15-20 words on average
• Break long ideas into multiple sentences

Clarity:

• Define technical terms at first use
• Explain concepts before diving into details
• Use transitions: "However," "In contrast," "Specifically," "Consequently,"
• Avoid jargon where plain English works

Conciseness:

• Remove redundant words: "very," "really," "quite"
• Get to the point quickly
• Don't over-explain simple concepts
• Respect typical Introduction length (600-1000 words)

Objectivity:

• Present your work neutrally
• Let results speak for themselves (don't overclaim)
• Acknowledge limitations honestly
• Don't dismiss others' work unfairly

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• ❌ Writing entire Introduction in one paragraph
• ❌ Jumping between topics without transitions
• ❌ Overclaiming results or contributions
• ❌ Being too vague: "We do something great" (what is it?)
• ❌ Providing comprehensive literature review (this is Related Work section)
• ❌ Using complex technical details in Introduction (save for Method section)
• ❌ Writing contributions that are not specific or measurable

Best Practices

For the Agent:

1. Always ask one question at a time

   • Don't overwhelm user with multiple questions
   • Wait for response before asking next question

2. Help users think, not just answer

   • If user says "I don't know," break it down
   • Guide them to discover their own answers
   • Ask follow-up questions to dig deeper

3. Verify understanding before writing

   • Paraphrase user's answer back to them
   • Confirm before moving to next section
   • Catch misunderstandings early

4. Focus on narrative, not just content

   • Help user tell a story
   • Connect "what they did" with "why it matters"
   • Make contributions sound compelling

5. Always check user's context

   • What field are they in?
   • What conference are they targeting?
   • What is their target audience?

Quick Reference

Introduction Structure Checklist

Before writing, ensure:

• Background and task are clearly defined
• Importance and applications are explained
• Challenges and difficulties are described
• Existing work is reviewed briefly
• Limitations/gaps are clearly identified
• Overall approach is presented (high-level)
• Method overview is simple and non-technical
• Teaser figure is referenced appropriately
• Three contributions are specific and measurable
• Transitions between paragraphs are smooth

After writing, check:

• Sentences are simple and clear
• No jargon without definition
• Technical details are minimal (save for Method section)
• Citations are suggested appropriately
• Teaser figure guidance is provided
• LaTeX is compilable and properly formatted

Examples and Reference Materials

For detailed examples of well-written Introductions, refer to:

• references/introduction_examples.md - Introduction sections from published papers with analysis
• These examples show structure, flow, and contribution phrasing

Study these examples to understand:

• How to transition between sections
• How to phrase contributions effectively
• How to reference teaser figures naturally
• How to balance technical detail with accessibility