An integral part of the course is the class project, which gives students a chance to apply deep architectures discussed in class to a research-oriented problem. Students should work in pairs. The project may involve:
- Design of a novel end-to-end approach and its experimental analysis, or
- An extension to a recent study of non-trivial complexity and its experimental analysis.
Progress and final project reports should use the provided LaTeX template and be submitted electronically in PDF format. Late submissions will be penalized.
Deliverables
Grading
Project proposal
Due: October 26, 2026 · 23:59
Each group should submit a project proposal of approximately 1–2 pages using the provided LaTeX proposal template. It should include:
- The research topic to be investigated.
- A list of key readings.
- A design overview.
- The data and metrics that will be used.
- An approximate timeline of activities.
Progress presentations
Due: November 23, 2026
Each project group will have approximately 6–8 minutes to present progress on the project in class. The suggested outline is:
- Problem statement and motivation.
- Related work.
- Key technical ideas and an overview of the proposed deep model.
- Experimental evaluation, including datasets, evaluation metrics and applications.
- Preliminary results and discussion.
Progress report
Due: November 30, 2026 · 23:59
Each group should submit a 5 pages + references project progress report using the provided LaTeX template. Describe the problem, related work, methodology, experimental evaluation, baseline results and references as clearly as possible.
Final presentations
Due: December 21, 2026
Each group will have approximately 8–10 minutes to present the final project in class. The presentation should cover the main contributions, motivation, related work, key technical ideas, experimental setup, results, strengths and weaknesses.
Final report
Due: December 31, 2026. No late submissions.
The final report should be 8 pages + references, use the provided LaTeX template, and be structured as a research paper. A typical organization includes title and authors, abstract, introduction, related work, approach, experimental results, conclusions, and references.