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Supports: comparison, ablation, descriptive, multi-dataset table types.
Additional flags: --type multi-dataset for methods x datasets x metrics layout, --significance for p-value stars, --underline-second for second-best results.
References
- LaTeX table templates and examples:
~/.claude/skills/table-generation/references/table-templates.md
Table Types
comparison — Main results table
- Rows = methods (baselines + ours), Columns = metrics/datasets
- Bold the best result in each column
- Include mean +/- std when available
- Use
\multirowfor method categories (Supervised, Self-supervised, etc.)
ablation — Ablation study table
- Rows = variants (full model, minus component A, minus component B, ...)
- Columns = metrics
- Bold the full model result
- Use checkmarks for component presence
descriptive — Dataset/statistics table
- Dataset characteristics, hyperparameters, or summary statistics
- Clean formatting with proper units
custom — Free-form table
- User specifies layout and content
Required Packages
\usepackage{booktabs} % \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule
\usepackage{multirow} % \multirow
\usepackage{multicol} % multi-column layouts
\usepackage{threeparttable} % table notesOutput Format
Always generate tables with:
booktabsrules (\toprule,\midrule,\bottomrule)
\caption{}and\label{tab:...}
- Bold best results using
\textbf{}
- Table notes via
threeparttablewhen needed
- Proper alignment (
lfor text,corrfor numbers)
Rules
- Only include numbers from actual experimental logs — never hallucinate results
- All numbers must match the data source exactly
- Use
$\pm$for standard deviations
- Use
\underline{}for second-best results when appropriate
- Keep tables compact — avoid unnecessary columns
- Use
table*for wide tables spanning two columns
- Add glossary/notes for abbreviated column headers
Related Skills
- Upstream: data-analysis, experiment-code
- Downstream: paper-writing-section, paper-compilation
- See also: figure-generation