Final Project

Each student will work on an individual project, which you will summarize in a final technical paper and present during the course poster session during Reading Period. The project proposal and final report will be submitted for grading through Gradescope. We will use the NeurIPS template, which you can find on Canvas, for these reports.

The latest time to submit the proposal and the final report is 2:59 PM EST on the deadline. You can apply your late days to the proposal submission, with at most two late days allowed. Any proposal submitted more than two days past the original submission deadline for the proposal will not be graded. You cannot apply your late days to the final report.

Your project has to relate to the topic of the course. Many things can constitute a project for this course, e.g. proposing a new methodology for a certain data modality, applying an existing probabilistic model to a very interesting dataset you are interested in, developing a new inference algorithm for probabilistic models, proposing new ways to evaluate probabilistic models, finding unknown connections between different probabilistic modeling techniques, devising new ways of estimating uncertainty, etc. If you are not sure whether your project idea is appropriate for the course, please ask the course instructor during office hours.

The project proposal should answer the following questions:

• What problem are you tackling?
• Why is this problem important?
• What is the roadmap for this project? To answer this, please describe what the expected outcome is for the project and how you plan to get there.

The project proposal will be 2 pages maximum, in the NeurIPS style, and with an additional separate page for any reference.

You will present your project during Reading Period during the course poster session. Your poster should touch upon the following:

• What problem are you tackling?
• Why is this problem important?
• Method
• Results
• Take-away message

There will be one poster session, with no possibility to present at a different day. Failure to make a poster and present during the poster session will result in losing the 10% allocated to this portion of the final project.

Your final report showcases all the work that went into your project throughout the semester. It should have the following sections:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Related work
• Method
• Empirical Study
• Conclusion

Your final report should be 5-6 pages long, including figures, in the NeurIPS style format. You can add one separate additional page for references. You can add an appendix when relevant but we may not read the appendix.