Project presentation: 50%
Presented in class in the last session. The project does not need to be finished by this point, you can just present your progress.
Format: A Google slide deck for all presentations (to be sent by the course instructor)
Time limit: Max 5 minutes presentation per group, then 2-3 minutes Q/A from the course instructor
Content: Should cover motivation/summary and how it’s situated within related literature, key contributions you want to make, your progress so far (models, experiments, results, etc), what you plan to do next.
Grading: You will be graded on the three criteria outlined below along with guiding questions explaining what graders will be looking for:
- Completeness - are all the components listed above reflected in the presentation?
- Clarity - does the story make sense? is it clear what the exact contributions (e.g. problem & solution or question & answer) are?
- Correctness - Are all claims supported by evidence (either from existing literature or from own experiments)?
Project report: 50%
Compose this as you would a research paper. While the exact structure is up to you, a typical paper will have an abstract, introduction, related works, methods, experiments, results, discussion, and conclusion. Aim for about 4 pages + references.
Templates: As you like, 12pt font, single-spaced. The instructor will update this with example templates.
Some tips on writing ML research papers:
- Grigorios
G. Chrysos - How to write a research paper in machine learning
- ICML 2002 - How
to write a great research paper
- Zack
Lipton - Heuristics for Scientific Writing (A Machine Learning
Perspective)
- John
Wentworth - Highly opinionated advice on how to write ML papers
Grading - you will be graded on the three criteria outlined below along with guiding questions explaining what graders will be looking for:
- Completeness - are all the components listed above
reflected in the report?
- Clarity - does the story make sense? is it clear
what the exact contributions (e.g. problem & solution or question
& answer) are?
- Correctness - Are all claims supported by evidence (either from existing literature or from own experiments)?