DS551/CS525 - Reinforcement Learning - Fall 2024Version: June 24th. 2024
Presentations.This is a seminar-style course based on state-of-art techniques. Given that, we have no course textbook but rather we are working with a set of rather diverse manuscripts. Our goal is to review the literature so to build up a general picture of this newly emerging field of urban network analysis. In most of the class sesssions, we will discuss manuscripts using the following structure:Presentation team:
The presentation should include: (1) several slides on background, (2) one or two slides on motivation; (3) problem and goal; (4) details of the proposed methods; (5) examples and examples and ...; (6) results and evaluation; (7) closing remarks. All this material can be extracted from the assigned readings. You are however encouraged to go beyond the assigned readings and search the literature to identify other closely related works to fill in the background for the others in the class, and to provide additional insights that you may have found., if any. You may want to consider suggestions in this slideshow called "death by powerpoint" , when you prepare your presentation. While in some cases we may look at one or maybe two core papers for a given topic, the topic itself is the important thing. So in some cases, you cannot present all information from all the papers down to their nitty-gritty details. Instead, you focus on the main ideas. That is, be selective to assure you get to the more interesting details. Make sure to show concrete examples that best illustrate and help explain the ideas. Also, extract out key advantages of the proposed ideas. This way, you can advocate why this work is interesting and likely to have an impact on future systems. Two, also identify possible shortcomings and weak points, i.e., maybe cases or data sets or situations where such a technique may not work. Lastly, please prepare some questions that you are going to ask the audience to help them make sure they also understood the main ideas in the paper! On a day when one single team is scheduled for a 80 minute class session, then the presentation should be around 45 minutes max. While the remaining 30 - 35 mins will be used for discussion. On a day when there are two teams scheduled for a 80 minute class session, then the presentation should be around 20 minutes max. While the remaining 15 - 20 mins used for discussion. Please take great care to give credit to any material, be it a figure or a slide or whatever, that you took from elsewhere to acknowledge its source. If you make use of an existing slide deck from the internet, you must acknowledge this. You are required to adjust it to make it your own, add appropriate examples and form it to match the content and length required for the course. Also, do check with me first if it is valid for you to use. You must assure that you give proper credit to anything you make use of, otherwise this would be considered plagerism. Also, verify with original authors that you can indeed borrow and post their source material. Turn in your material, powerpoint and anything else you prepared, to the instructor to post online. The quality of the slides, the oral presentation, and your understanding of the content will be all taken into account for the grade. Thus you are strongly advised to spend adequate time in preparing your material and presentation. Audience (the rest of the class):
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