Topics in Optimization for Machine Learning

Dear students,

I have just uploaded feedback on report 2.

In the next days I will contact you to arrange a (zoom) meeting to provide feedback on your final presentation drafts. Ideally, these discussions should take place in 2-4 weeks from now, so that there is enough time left to incorporate the feedback.

I will invite you in groups of 2-3, so that we can have a bit of a discussion and that you also get feedback from your peers.

It would be great if you could prepare a sketch of the presentation (just bullet points - no polishing) that you can present in 5-10 minutes (max!). We will use the rest of the time for discussions, feedback and additional questions you might have on the content of the paper. Please,

• follow the provided template structure (or some other logical structure)
• focus on the most essential points only (maybe highlight them in color)
• consider that the (final) presentation should be self-contained/simple enough, so that your peers can follow. Show how you will address this aspect.

-Sebastian

Dear students,

I have uploaded a brief feedback on your first report on CMS (and added the reports on the google-drive link - for internal use only - please to not share publicly).

-Sebastian

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Evaluation matrix (based on page 5 of the presentation in the kick-off meeting).

1. Description of the content/main result of the paper.
2. Relation to prior work.
3. Review (comments on strengths and limitations).
4. Additional personal comments (any out of: comments on applications, future directions, judging writing quality, presentation of materials, etc.)

Each criteria is awarded 1-5 points (with the possiblity to gain max. 1 extra point in each category for outstanding performance).
The mapping of points to grades will be communicated later. In any case, a total of 20 (or above) will be mapped to the highest possible grade. 

3 - sufficient (60%)
4 - good (80%)
5 - excellent (100%)

 

Dear all,

- the deadline for the first report is approaching. Please check that the submission system (cms) is working so that you do not encounter technical problems shortly before the deadline.

- I also found these resources that could be helpful for the final polishing / proof reading: Section "Review content" in the NeurIPS reviewer guidelines, or the AISTATS reviewer guidelines. These are just complementary resources. If you followed the themplate from the slides this will be fine as well.

-Sebastian

Thanks for voting. I have now finalized the topic assignment (taking your preferences into account). You find your assigned topic in the google sheet.

Please note that the first report is due at the end of this month.

Date of final presentations: Unfortunately, the voting for the dates of the final presentation was less successful, we did not find 2 slots that work for all of you.

Somewhat popular was Tuesday & Wednesday (March 2-3, 2022) afternoon. Could the others also make this work? Please let me know of your time constraints on these days, maybe by slightly shifting the time this will work for all?

-Sebastian

 

 

• Doodle for final presentations: please complete by Sunday, Oct 31, 2021 (please select all possible slots - we need to find 2 slots where everybody can attend)
• List of suggested topics: please add your preferences by Sunday, Oct 31, 2021.
• Forum for questions

Other materials can be found on this google drive link. Including:

• Report Template
• Presentation from the Kick-off meeting
• Chapter 1 of Nesterov's book (for reference)