Paper Figure Study

200 papers · 371 original figures · 369 fidelity-approved revisions with independent ratings

English gallery · Chinese gallery · S4-AI-Style contrast cohort · Main cohort: 160 papers (CSV) · Style cohort: 40 papers (CSV) · Main figure manifest (CSV) · Style figure manifest (CSV)

Collection and comparison protocol

The main cohort comprises 160 papers: 10 papers in each of 16 stage × topic cells (four stages and four topics), with one motivation (M) and one framework (F) figure per paper, yielding 320 figures. A separate purposive S4-AI-Style cohort comprises 40 additional ICLR 2027 submissions across all topics, yielding 51 figures (11 M and 40 F). It is not pooled with the main cohort.

The S4 main cohort uses ICLR 2027 OpenReview submissions, not acceptance status. Of its 40 papers, 17 meet the arXiv and author-citation criteria; 23 use the explicitly authorized fallback that waives unmet arXiv or author-citation requirements. Each of the four main topics contributes 10 papers.

Content cutoff: 20 October 2026. S4 source evidence retrieved on 28 October 2026 (UTC); collection delivered on 29 October 2026 (Singapore time). Revisions and their ratings were completed on 1 November 2026. Original images, captions, ratings, and archival evidence are preserved.

Score changes are revised minus original medians, in score points. The displayed six-dimension mean is the unweighted arithmetic mean of all six medians. It is a descriptive browsing aid, not a validated composite scale. No mean is computed when a dimension is missing. Two revisions that failed fidelity review have no quality ratings.

This English edition presents the same figures, source metadata, captions, ratings, and English judgment evidence. Detailed screening rationales are retained in the linked original-language archive. The figures themselves have not been translated or altered for this edition.