Rubrics and Grading Policy
- All posted questions and discussions should be anonymous to other students
- As our lecture times are Monday and Wednesday, the deadline of posting questions for next week’s topic is Friday 11:59 PM
- After each lecture, students will have one more week to post their discussion to other students’ question
1. Question assignments
- Students should post their questions for at least ten lecture topics.
- If a student submit more than ten topics, than the highest ten submissions will be used for calculating the final grade
1.1 Grading Rubric
| Points | Requirements |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | Related to the lecture topic (base score). |
| + 1.0 | Clear definition of the question. |
| + 1.0 | Provide necessary references to the textbook or other complementary readings. |
| + 1.0 | Explain what the challenge was when you tried to answer this question. |
Comments
- The first 0.5 point is the base score, not satisfying the corresponding requirement will lead to 0 point of this assignment.
2. Discussion assignments
- Students should answer the questions for at least ten lecture topics.
- If students submit their answers to more than ten topics, then the highest ten answers will be used for calculating the final grade
2.1 Grading Rubric
| Points | Requirements |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | Correctly identifies the question. Answer is directly related to the topic of the question (base score). |
| + 1.0 | Answers the question in its entirety. If there are related subcomponents to the question, answer addresses each subcomponent. |
| + 1.0 | Sufficient justification about why you think this is an answer to the question. |
| + 1.0 | Necessary references for readers to 1) further understand the technical details and/or 2) know which section in the textbook they can refer back to. |
Comments
- The first 1.0 point is the base score, not satisfying the corresponding requirement will lead to 0 point of this assignment.
3. Final project
- In the final project, students are expected to team up (2 – 3 students) to write a survey on a specific topic.
3.1 Grading Rubric for Final Project Proposal
A final project proposal should cover the following components
- Justification of the topic (4 points)
- What is the research topic that the survey will be focused on?
- Why this research topic is important or valuable?
- The justification of importance can be from the theoretical perspective or application perspective
- What are the critical research problems in this topic?
- Cite the works from the following list to support your justification
- A reference list (3 points)
- Include at least 4 papers and no more than 10 papers, so it would be better to identify the important works on the proposed topic
- The papers should come from a multiple-year span instead of just the recent publications or the seminal works. Combining with the first point, the purpose is to make sure the survey covers enough important works from a large time span.
- The reading list should be aligned with the important topics listed above
Additional specification
- Please use the NeurIPS 2022 template for your proposal
- Each proposal should be more than at least 1.5 pages and no more than 3 pages – the reference list does not include the page limit
3.2 Grading Rubric for Final Report
- Introduction (3 points): use one paragraph to summarize the following key points
- (1 point) the research topic
- (1 point) the important research problems covered in this survey
- (1 point) to what extent the following research papers answer these problems
- Paper summary (8 points): for each paper, please cover the following aspects:
- the type of research in this paper (e.g., proposing a new algorithm, designing a new evaluation metric, or collecting a new dataset)
- the key challenge addressed in this paper
- the main contribution
- the evaluation/justification strategies
- Open questions (2 points)
- any open questions that you think is worth studying in future work?
4. Class attendance
Class attendance is an important component for this course. Therefore, we plan to take class attendance in every class time. Missing class without permission will cause some point deduction.
| Missing classes | Point deduction |
|---|---|
| 1 < n <= 2 | -1.0 |
| 2 < n <= 4 | -2.0 |
| 4 < n <= 6 | -3.0 |
| 6 < n <= 8 | -4.0 |
| n > 8 | -5.0 |
5. Grade Mapping
At the end of this semester, students can calculate their grades based on the following point-to-grade mapping.
| Point range | Letter grade |
|---|---|
| [99 100] | A+ |
| [94 99) | A |
| [90 94) | A- |
| [88 90) | B+ |
| [83 88) | B |
| [80 83) | B- |
| [74 80) | C+ |
| [67 74) | C |
| [60 67) | C- |
| [0 60) | F |