colm-artifact-evaluationUse when packaging the artifacts of a COLM paper — model weights, training data, prompts, evaluation sets, and cached model outputs — for anonymous review and public post-acceptance release, navigating licenses, API terms-of-service limits, and the absence of a formal COLM artifact track.
colm-author-responseUse when writing a COLM rebuttal in the OpenReview discussion phase — triaging reviews released in late May, running cache-based follow-up experiments inside the roughly two-and-a-half-week window, answering contamination and baseline-fairness objections with evidence, and writing for the area chair
colm-camera-readyUse when converting a COLM acceptance into the final paper — the August 7 camera-ready deadline in 2026, de-anonymization and the one-page acknowledgments allowance, folding rebuttal commitments into the text, publishing on OpenReview, releasing artifacts publicly, and planning the October conferenc
colm-experimentsUse when designing or auditing the empirical core of a COLM paper — contamination analysis for evaluation data, fair baselines under matched prompting and compute, pinned model versions and decoding parameters, uncertainty over runs and samples, scaling coverage, and honest reporting of API-model co
colm-related-workUse when positioning a COLM paper inside the fastest-moving literature in ML — triaging arXiv-heavy citations, handling concurrent work fairly, citing model and dataset artifacts correctly, distinguishing COLM's three-edition archive from adjacent venues' archives, and keeping self-citation double-b
colm-reproducibilityUse when hardening a COLM paper's reproducibility story — pinning open-weight checkpoints and tokenizers, handling API-model drift and deprecation honestly, versioning evaluation harnesses and prompts, disclosing compute, and writing availability statements that distinguish what is releasable from w
colm-review-processUse when reasoning about how COLM reviews a paper — the OpenReview pipeline from late-March submission through the May review release, the May-June rebuttal window, July decisions, reciprocal-reviewing obligations, the LLM-use rules for reviewers, and how a three-edition-old venue's norms differ fro
colm-submissionUse when preparing or auditing a COLM submission on OpenReview — the late-March abstract and full-paper deadlines, the strict 9-page main text, double-blind rules banning acknowledgments and identity links, the Code of Ethics acknowledgment, LLM-usage disclosure, reciprocal-reviewer nomination, and
colm-supplementaryUse when deciding what goes into a COLM paper's appendices and supplementary material versus the strict 9-page main text — verbatim prompts, full evaluation configurations, per-task result tables, contamination analyses, human-evaluation protocols, and anonymized code/data packages that survive doub
colm-topic-selectionUse when deciding whether language-model research belongs at COLM or should route to ACL/EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, or a workshop — applying the object-of-study test, matching against COLM's CFP lanes (training, data, evaluation, inference, safety), and weighing the trade-offs of a young venue befo
colm-workflowUse when planning a COLM submission campaign across the calendar — working backward from the late-March abstract and paper deadlines through the May-June rebuttal, July decisions, August camera-ready, and October conference, coordinating co-authors, compute, and reciprocal-reviewing duties, and slot
colm-writing-styleUse when drafting or revising COLM paper prose — leading with a finding about language models rather than a leaderboard delta, scoping claims to tested models and scales, naming versions in text, keeping the 9-page main text self-sufficient, and matching the measured, analysis-forward voice of COLM'