【读书笔记】如何回复审稿意见

回复的基本结构

感谢审稿人与编辑的审稿

We sincerely thank the handling editor for coordinating the review of our manuscript. We also thank the reviewers for their detailed comments and we believe that our paper has improved substantially by incorporating them. We have addressed all the points raised by the reviewers and modified the manuscript accordingly. The reviewer comments and our detailed responses are given below. We have split the comments into parts and addressed each of the parts for the reviewers’ convenience. We sincerely hope that the revised manuscript will meet your standards of approval.

We thank you for taking the time to provide an insightful critique of our work and greatly appreciate the feedback. We agree with most of the comments/suggestions and have tried to incorporate them as best as possible. In the process, we believe that the quality of the manuscript has greatly improved. The changes to the manuscript are in red ink. Our response to your comments are included inline below. To avoid confusion between equations/figures/tables in this document and the paper, we index using uppercase roman letters here (e.g., Fig. A, Table A and so on). We hope that we have been able to satisfactorily address all the issues that were raised.

The amendments are highlighted in blue in the revised manuscript. The details of point to point responses to all comments are provided in this response letter. Thank you again for all valuable comments.

列举修改的地方

We briefly summarize the major modifications below.

We summary the main revisions as follows.

The amendments are highlighted in blue in the revised manuscript. The details of point to point responses to all comments are provided in this response letter. Thank you again for all valuable comments.

对每个审稿人进行回复

• 从篇幅上来看，每个reviewer的response需要写6页左右，包含最后的参考文献应该18页左右。

• 先抄一遍审稿人的overview：

  This paper proposed ...

• 对comment进行逐点回复

  • 首先感谢审稿人提出意见

    We sincerely thank the reviewer for encouraging comments and pointing out this gap in the manuscript.

    We appreciate that the reviewer has observed this subtle trend.

    We sincerely thank the reviewer for bringing up this point regarding the process of acquiring RSSI.

    We thank the reviewer for the query regarding beamforming architecture/bringing this to our attention.

    We sincerely thank the reviewer for this well through observation.

    We sincerely thank the reviewer for raising this point/subtle observation/this very insightful comment.

  • 针对审稿人的问题进行回复（具体见第二节）

  • 造成这个问题的原因是文章哪一部分没有说清楚，说清楚修改的地方

    We have added a paragraph in the revised manuscript to clarify these details under Sec. II-A. Channel Model of the main manuscript.

    We have now highlighted this in the current manuscript in Sec. IV. Results of the main manuscript.

    We have now added the definition of Softmax function.

    To further clarify this, we have added a paragraph at the end of Section III where discuss the choice of beam misalignment error and why it is measured in dB.

常见审稿意见以及回复思路

创新性不足

• 提出应该解决新场景下的问题

  先承认问题确实有意义，提出常用的两种方法，然后说超出本文研究范围

  However, as this problem would merit an independent study and is beyond the scope of this paper, we will investigate the problem in future work. Accordingly, the above-mentioned points have been added in the conclusion section of the paper.

• 使用的网络结构不够先进

  首先说所用方法是有效的，和最新方法相比的优势（一般是复杂度更低），然后给出具体的支持（仿真结果、运算量比较）

• 文章缺失一个关键性能指标的研究

  我们的方法不需要研究这个方面/这个指标无法良好定义并举例进行说明

关键假设不合理

先承认审稿人说的有道理，具体展开解释。然后一个转折，解释本文的设置原因以及审稿人假设不合适的原因。

对审稿人提出的信息具体细化，表明无法直接应用到文章当中。

性能可以进一步提升

• 复杂度的问题

  可以用某方法降低复杂度/训练时间，但是作为未来研究方向

  But methods like transfer learning [7] and bootstrapping with pre-trained models can be used to reduce the training time. However, this is an interesting line for research and is not the scope of this paper. We have added a line about this scope in Sec. IV Results in the main manuscript.

  同时有没有哪些设置能够缓解目前的现状（在线学习），通过实验结果进行佐证，并添加到实验结果当中

• 为什么不用另外一个方法

  首先找准研究点和所提问题是什么关系，如果是包含关系那么不言自明了

欠缺仿真结果

• 要求用实验证实某个假设

  先说清楚现有的假设是什么，然后根据实验现象证实论文所作假设

• 仿真的公平性不足

  其他方法是如何处理这个问题的，用这个方法依然是不公平的，我们是如何处理并让这个问题变得公平的

• 参数的选择不合适

  文献的参数在某个常用场景中是适用的

• 仿真的性质体现不完备

  这个只有实打实地补充实验，并且对实验现象进行说明

• 数据集的使用不合理

  想办法说明数据集是有效的、适用的。最理想的数据集得不到，而当前数据集是被广泛使用的。

某个概念解释不清

• 为什么要如此选择码字？

  先介绍背景，总结当前的工作一般是如何选择码字的，有哪些优缺点。因此我们如何进行码字的选择，同时有哪些特点。（总体来说是属于Introduction一类）

• 某种架构的选择原因

  先介绍每种备选架构，然后总结其优缺点，最终选择文章所用架构

书写上有错误

We sincerely apologize for these cosmetic errors in our manuscript and thank the reviewer for his/her detailed suggestions for corrections. We have made all changes as suggested by the reviewer in our revised manuscript and have done extensive grammar checks to avoid all such errors. We hope the revised manuscript will meet your standards of acceptance.

We would like to thank you for carefully checking our paper. In the revised manuscript, we have corrected this error and rewritten it as something, where PR is the average received signal power.

Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. In the updated manuscript, we ensured that the referencing format is in accordance with IEEE style.

太长不看版本

• 有礼貌有篇幅

• 能补充实质性材料就补充实质性材料

• 面对解释性的审稿意见就当成Introduction慢慢讲清楚

• 面对批判性的审稿意见能改就改，改不了就说他说的不对我这个才是对的