Paper Reviews
Submit a review for each assigned paper before class through
Gradescope, including papers you are presenting.
Review Format
Please follow a CVPR-style review format:
- Summary
- Strengths
- Weaknesses (Major / Minor)
- Rate the following (1-5: Poor, Fair, Good, Very good, Excellent) with justification
- Soundness
- Presentation
- Contribution
There is no strict character or page limit for the review.
Paper Presentations
Each paper gets a 35 minute slot: a 25 minute presentation
from the presenters, then 10 minutes of small-group discussion by the whole class.
Technical presentation
Presenters
Presenters' critique
Presenters
Group discussion
Everyone — groups of 2-6, submit to Gradescope
Details below.
For Presenters
- Presentation teams consist of <=2 students
- Sign up for a paper and presentation slot using the
sign-up
sheet
- Presenters should prepare a ~25 minute presentation of the assigned paper
Presentation Structure
- Technical presentation (~20 mins): explain what the paper actually
did, technically.
- Motivation and problem setting: what task the paper addresses and why prior work
was insufficient
- Technical approach: the proposed method, model or architecture, loss functions
and training procedure, and any key algorithmic details
- Experiments: datasets, baselines, evaluation metrics, main results, and ablations
- Provide enough background so that the class can follow the method, but keep the
focus on the paper's own technical contributions
- Critique (~5 mins): share your own thoughts and opinions of the paper, for example, consider discussing these angles:
- Strengths: what the paper gets right, and what is genuinely new
- Weaknesses: overclaimed results, missing baselines, limitations the authors
gloss over
- Validity of the experiments: do the experiments actually support the claims?
Are the datasets, baselines, metrics, and ablations appropriate and sufficient?
- Significance and long-term impact: how much does this change the field, and
will it still matter in a few years?
- Discussion questions (stated at the very end of your 25 mins): these are
separate from your critique — give them after you have shared your own take.
- Give 3-5 discussion questions about the paper for the class
- Good questions are open-ended and debatable rather than factual recall
- Presenters do not need to present the answers of these questions to the class. Your presentation is finished once you have stated and shown the questions to the class.
- Presenters also need to submit answers to the questions in small group as other students will do. Details in For Students below.
Slide Submission Policy
Please submit your slides through the
Google Form both before and after
your presentation.
- Pre-presentation submission:
- Monday presentations: due by Friday EOD
- Wednesday presentations: due by Sunday EOD
- The slides do not need to be fully polished, but they should at least clearly
show the overall structure and flow of your presentation.
- You can continue editing your slides after this submission.
- The teaching staff may provide feedback if needed.
- Final submission: submit the final version of your slides 15 minutes before the class begins (so we can put your slides on the website and other students can see them!).
For Students
Discussion
- 10-minute discussion following the presentation (the last 10 minutes of the 35 minute
slot for each paper)
- Students discuss the presenters' questions in small groups of 2-6
- Each group submits a short discussion summary to Gradescope (one
submission per group)
Final Project
The final project is a major component of the course.
- Teams of approximately 3-5 students
- Written proposal due Oct 2
- Progress presentation on two dedicated days: Oct 21 &
Oct 26
- Poster session on Dec 7
- Report due Dec 9
- See the Final Project page for the full description, timeline,
and report requirements
Logistics
Grading breakdown, Piazza rules, and email rules are on the
Logistics page.