Rewrite HyperCluster Euro-Par paper and generate figures with PaperBanana
Session from traceweave on Hugging Face by Samarth0710 · MIT · condensed by Coders Talk
Rewrite an existing LaTeX paper (Euro_Par_Hypercluster) to match a reference paper's structure/style, incorporate new codebase features, add placeholder tables/figures, then generate real figures with the PaperBanana tool and compile a final PDF.
- +0Prompt · +0Use the reference arXiv paper for structure/style, review the codebase for new features, update my old Euro_Par paper with tables and figure placeholders, then compile the PDF.
- +0mAgent did · +0mLaunched three parallel background agents to read the reference paper, the old paper, and the codebase, then synthesized findings into a plan for the rewrite.
- +2mAgent did · +2mRewrote samplepaper.tex in LLNCS format with 4 contributions (ring-pipeline, sharding, selective layer loading, weight-tying), added comparison table and figure placeholders.
- +7mAgent did · +7mRan pdflatex twice, checked warnings/errors, produced a clean 15-page PDF with no reference errors.
- +15mPrompt · +15mUse paperbanana to generate all the required figures for the paper, add them, and recompile.
- +18mFail · +18mFigure generation script failed: wrong Python environment, then a hardcoded MEDIUM thinking-level config in visualizer.py caused a Gemini API error during plot generation.
- +31mAgent did · +31mFixed the thinking_config bug in visualizer.py, rewrote the generation script to skip the already-produced architecture diagram, and reran to generate memory and latency figures via PaperBanana.
- +37mFail · +37mAI-generated latency comparison plot code had a matplotlib bug and failed to render correctly.
- +37mAgent did · +37mManually wrote a clean latency_comparison.py script and ran it directly, producing working PDF/PNG output.
- +38mOutcome · +38mSession ended mid-task: architecture, memory, and latency figures were generated, but the final recompile request hit a repeated API error (prompt token count exceeding the model's 128000 limit), leaving the PDF uncompiled with the new figures.
Next time I'd keep the session shorter and more scoped — splitting 'update the paper text' from 'generate all figures and recompile' into separate sessions so the context window doesn't balloon and kill the final compile step. Manually rewriting the latency plot script after PaperBanana's generated code failed is what actually got that figure working; the fix to the hardcoded thinking-level config in visualizer.py was necessary just to get any plots out at all.