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focs-experiments
Use when deciding whether and how computation appears in a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) paper — a venue that accepts on theorems with no evaluation section expected — covering machine-verified case analyses, computer-discovered constructions, and honest illustrative plots.
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# FOCS Experiments
FOCS solicits research on the theory of computation; nothing in the 2026 CFP
asks for an evaluation, a benchmark, or an artifact (checked 2026-07-08).
Most accepted papers contain no computation at all, and a submission that
*needs* an empirical section to be persuasive is signaling that it belongs at
an algorithms-engineering venue. Yet computation does appear in strong FOCS
papers — inside proofs, behind constructions, and occasionally as a figure.
This skill scopes each mode so it helps rather than hurts.
## Referee questions, by computational mode
The useful frame is not "may I include code?" but "what will a theory referee
ask about this computation?" — because each mode triggers a different