Paper Presentations

Presentations

Note: Please use your Stanford account to log into the Google Drive links for the presentation template. Please do not request access for your Gmail accounts.

Each class will consist of three paper presentations, typically on the same general topic as outlined in the schedule. Papers have already been selected for each class, but substitutions are permitted with prior approval by the course staff. Depending on the number of students, there may be more than one presenter for the same paper. We will use a Google Form to solicit student preferences for presentations. The schedule will be updated to reflect paper assignments.

Students presenting on the same day must coordinate with each other to eliminate overlapping material. Please use the following template. Make sure that you provide the proper credit for any images, code/pseudocode, or videos used in the presentation.

Your presentation will be graded according to the following criteria:

  • Clarity of presentation
  • Explanation of prior work
  • Discussion of applications
  • Framing of the work with respect to other literature
  • A critique of limitations and open issues
  • Response to student questions (in-class and on Piazza)
  • Time management

It is much better to present things clearly than to try to present all details. You do not have to cover all ideas in the readings. Please use the notation presented in Algorithms for Decision Making.

Each presentation will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.

Upload a PDF of your final presentation to Canvas no later than one hour prior to class.

Draft Presentation

The success of the course relies heavily on high-quality student presentations. A complete draft of your presentation is due at 5:00 pm three days prior to your presentation. There is a 20% penalty for every day late. Please upload a PDF to Canvas. If you want to use supplementary material (e.g., a video or Jupyter notebook), please include a link in your PDF file. The course staff will provide feedback on your presentation.

Previous Presentations

Presentations from previous offerings: Winter 2022, Winter 2020

Implementation Writeup

In addition to presenting on a paper in class, we will ask you to think about how you might actually implement it, at least at the level of pseudocode. For the paper that you present, you are required to submit a (roughly) 2-page writeup. This is due at 5:00 pm on Friday in the week of your presentation. Please use the LaTeX template uploaded here. An Overleaf template is available here. The PDF also has some guidance on what to include.

All the submitted implementation writeups are available here.

Implementation writeups from previous offerings: Winter 2022, Winter 2020

Exercises

Please create two exercise questions. These are due at 5:00 pm on Friday in the week of your presentation. There is a 20% penalty for every day late. These will be used for students to help practice and assess whether they understood some of the key ideas in the reading, and students will use these when studying for the midterm. These questions should involve about 1-5 minutes of thought and must be in a .txt file. You may use latex equations in this .txt file. Provide solutions after each question.

Resources

Here are a few resources you might find useful for the paper presentations and for research in general: