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hpca-writing-style
Use when revising an HPCA paper for the mechanism-to-behavior first-page arc, a measured motivation before the fix, a checkable mechanism description, numbers that name their instrument, and 11-page compression that leaves slack for the single rebuttal/revision window.
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# HPCA Writing Style
Use this to shape an HPCA paper's prose and structure. The house style rewards a
paper built around **one mechanism-to-behavior claim**, motivated by a measured cost
and evidenced on a named instrument. Reopen the current page limit before trusting
the compression advice below.
## The first-page arc
An HPCA first page should carry, in order: **the measured problem → why existing
mechanisms miss it → the mechanism → the behavior it produces → what the numbers rest
on**. A reviewer should finish the abstract and first column knowing what you built,
what it costs, and what it changes — before any implementation detail.
