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GSoC 2026

Publication & Reproducibility Suite for Visdom: From Experiment Tracking to Paper-Ready Outputs

This project focuses on solving a real gap in the current research workflow that is the disconnect between running experiments and turning those results into clean, publication-ready outputs. Right now, tools like Visdom are great for live experiment visualization, but the moment a researcher wants to use those results in a paper, everything becomes manual. Plots are exported as screenshots or loosely formatted images, experiment configurations are tracked separately (often in notes or notebooks), and comparisons across differnent runs are done by hand. This makes the process slow, error-prone, and difficult to reproduce. The proposed solution is to extend Visdom into a complete “experiment-to-publication” pipeline. Instead of stopping at visualization, the system will allow researchers to directly generate structured, reproducible, and publication-quality outputs from Visdom itself. The project introduces four tightly connected components: A publication-quality export engine that allows plots to be exported in formats like SVG, PNG, and PDF with proper resolution and formatting suitable for academic journals. An experiment metadata tracker that automatically records configurations, parameters, environment details, and results for every run, ensuring full reproducibility. A LaTeX generation system that converts plots into ready-to-use LaTeX figure blocks, eliminating the need for manual formatting in Overleaf or similar tools. A multi-experiment comparison suite that enables researchers to compare different runs with statistical summaries and generate both plots and tables for inclusion in papers. By building this system, Visdom evolves from a visualization tool into a full research workflow assistant. The end result is simple: what currently takes days of manual effort can be reduced to minutes, while also improving the reproducibility and consistency across various experiments.

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