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Course Grading⚓︎

Presentation⚓︎

Presentations can be prepared individually or in pairs:

Format Number of papers
Individual 1 paper
Pair 3 or more papers (topic survey)

Presentation structure⚓︎

Section Points Guiding question
Problem statement 1 What problem do the authors solve?
Key idea 1 What is the novelty of the paper?
Experiment 1 How do the authors test their hypothesis?
Results 1 Did they beat SOTA?
Contribution 1 What is the main contribution?
Reproducibility 2 Can the experiments be reproduced? Is the code available? Does it run?
Improvements 2 What could be improved in the paper?
Presentation quality 1 Slide design and overall formatting
Total 10

Grading Formula⚓︎

The final grade consists of three components:

1. Seminar activity (questions)⚓︎

  • 1 point per question asked during a seminar
  • Maximum 3 activities per course
  • Total: up to 3 points

2. Peer reviews⚓︎

  • 1 point per review of another student's presentation
  • Maximum 2 reviews per course
  • Total: up to 2 points

3. Presentation (weight 7)⚓︎

Each presentation is evaluated by 3 reviewers: the mentor (L) and two peer reviewers (M, N).

The presentation score is a weighted average with the following weights:

Reviewer Weight
Mentor (L) 2
Peer reviewer 1 (M) 1
Peer reviewer 2 (N) 1

Presentation score formula:

\[ S = \begin{cases} 0, & \text{if } w_L + w_M + w_N = 0 \\[6pt] \dfrac{L \cdot w_L + M \cdot w_M + N \cdot w_N}{w_L + w_M + w_N}, & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} \]

where

\[ w_i = \begin{cases} 2, & i = L \text{ (mentor), if grade is given} \\ 1, & i \in \{M, N\} \text{ (peer reviewer), if grade is given} \\ 0, & \text{if grade is missing} \end{cases} \]

Final formula⚓︎

\[ \boxed{\;\text{Total} = \underbrace{\min(Q,\, 3)}_{\text{questions}} + \underbrace{\min(R,\, 2)}_{\text{reviews}} + \underbrace{S \times 7}_{\text{presentation}}\;} \]

where \(Q\) — number of questions asked, \(R\) — number of peer reviews written, \(S\) — weighted average presentation score.