BRAIT Submission Guidelines

To enter the competition, participants should submit the following anonymized documents :

๐Ÿ“„Short paper (4 pages) summarizing the main contributions of the thesisย 

๐Ÿ“˜Bachelor's / Master's / PhD thesis

While reviewers will primarily evaluate the short paper, they may consult the thesis for cross-referencing and additional details.

โš ๏ธ Important Notes:

๐Ÿ“ข Submit via OpenReviewย 

๐Ÿ”— Submission link coming soon

๐ŸŽญ Double-Blind Review Processย 

The review process is double-blind, ensuring anonymity between reviewers and authors.ย 

โš ๏ธ Anonymization Enforcement:

If a thesis is not properly anonymized, authors will be notified and given 48 hours to make the necessary corrections. Failure to comply will result in desk rejection and automatic disqualification.

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Anonymization Requirements:

๐Ÿ“„ Short Paper โ€“ Must be fully anonymized:

โœ… No author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or self-referencing that reveals identity

โœ… When citing their own work, authors should use the third person (e.g., "as shown in [1]" instead of "as we showed in [1]")

โœ… If sharing code, use an anonymous repository

๐Ÿ“˜ Thesis โ€“ Fully anonymizing a thesis is challenging, so minor deviations will not be penalized. However, authors must:

โœ… Remove names and affiliations from the cover page, headers, and footers
โœ… Remove acknowledgments that explicitly identify them, their advisors, or their institution
โœ… Keep the "Publications" section, but remove author names - only venue, year, and title should remain.

โœ… Remove institution logos from the document

However:
โŒ No need to anonymize citations of their own work in the thesis body
โŒ No need to modify references to advisors or collaborators in the thesis body
โŒ No need to anonymize general content beyond these requirements

๐Ÿ“„ Short Paper Submission Guidelinesย 

The short paper must:
โœ… Be 4 pages long (excluding the bibliography)
โœ… Follow the structure of a scientific paper (see ๐Ÿ“„ Short Paper Structure Guidelines)
โœ… Be written in English and adhere to the format in ๐Ÿ“„ Short Paper Style Guidelines
โœ… Be submitted as a PDF file (max 50MB)

๐Ÿ“Œ Need Inspiration?

You can find example short papers here:

ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ๐Ÿ“„ Paper1 | ๐Ÿ“„ Paper2 | ๐Ÿ“„ Paper3 | ๐Ÿ“„ Paper4 | ๐Ÿ“„ Paper5

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๐Ÿ“Œ Anonymization Requirement: The short paper must be fully anonymized

๐Ÿ“Œ Formatting & Templates:

๐Ÿ“Œ Writing in LaTeX? We recommend using Overleaf for an easy setup. Simply upload the template archive to a new project.

๐Ÿ“˜ Thesis Submission Guidelinesย 

๐Ÿ“Œ General Requirements:

๐Ÿ“Œ Anonymization Requirement: The thesis must be anonymized, but ย minor deviations will not be penalized โ€” please remove, as much as possible, references to:
โœ… The institution
โœ… The authorโ€™s name
โœ… The advisorโ€™s name