HPCA Camera-Ready

Use this after acceptance to turn the reviewed paper into an IEEE-published, badge-ready camera-ready and a winter-slot talk. HPCA is IEEE-published through TCCA, so the template, rights forms, and badging are IEEE's — do not import ACM conventions.

Invert every blinding action

The submission was double-blind; the camera-ready is not. Reverse each anonymization deliberately, and check that nothing was missed in either direction:

• Restore author names, affiliations, and the correct author order.
• Restore acknowledgments and funding lines that were removed for review.
• De-anonymize artifact links to the real repository.
• Keep the AI-use disclosure if content was AI-generated — it moves from an anonymous acknowledgment to the final one, it does not disappear.
• Confirm no reviewer-facing anonymity artifact ("Anonymous," "our institution") survives anywhere in the PDF or metadata.

Apply the IEEE template and rights

Task	What to do
Template	Final IEEE camera-ready template; confirm the current page allowance
Rights form	Complete the IEEE copyright/eRightslink form; add the required notice
Metadata	Set title, authors, and affiliations correctly in the PDF metadata
References	Every reference still lists all authors; fix any that slipped
Badges	Add earned IEEE reproducibility badge marks per the AE instructions
DOI	Confirm the DOI/citation string once assigned

Confirm the exact camera-ready page allowance on the current instructions — some cycles grant extra pages over the submission limit, and any earned artifact appendix may be additional; do not assume.

Integrate badges and the artifact

If the paper earned IEEE reproducibility badges, place the badge marks as the AE instructions specify and finalize the public, de-anonymized artifact release on the AE HotCRP. The camera-ready and the released artifact should reference each other consistently — the badge on the paper points to a real, runnable release.

Prepare the winter talk

HPCA meets in February or March, so the talk lands months after the summer deadline and the autumn decision — budget for re-immersion. Build the talk around the same mechanism-to-behavior spine as the paper:

• Open with the measured cost, not the mechanism.
• Show the mechanism as one clear figure a non-specialist architect can follow.
• Give the headline behavior with its instrument named, and one honest limitation.
• Rehearse to the session's time limit; confirm travel, registration, and any visa letter early given the winter international slot.

Camera-ready pass

1. Every blinding action inverted (names, acks, funding, artifact links)
2. AI-use disclosure preserved in the final acknowledgments (if applicable)
3. IEEE template + rights form complete; page allowance confirmed
4. Every reference lists all authors
5. Badge marks placed; public artifact release finalized on AE HotCRP
6. DOI/citation confirmed; PDF metadata correct
7. Talk built on the mechanism-to-behavior spine; travel/registration booked

Output format

[Camera-ready readiness] Ready / Needs fixes / Not ready
[De-anonymization] all blinding inverted? (Y/N)
[IEEE forms] template + rights complete? (Y/N)
[Badges/artifact] marks placed + release finalized? (Y/N/NA)
[Talk] built and rehearsed to time? (Y/N)
[Fixes] <ordered>

Reopen the current camera-ready instructions for the page allowance, rights workflow, and badge placement — all are per-edition.