Project Report Grading Rubric

The idea is that this project report should be a manageable amount of work, but that if you want to turn your project into a paper, everything in the project report will need to be done anyways. If you feel that your project won't fit into this rubric, please talk to me. There are many ways to make contributions to a field!

Length: 4 to 8 pages, not including appendices. Don't be afraid to keep the text short and to the point, and to include large illustrative figures.

  1. Abstract (5 points) that summarizes the main idea of the project and its contributions.

  2. Introduction (5 points) that states the problem being solved and why we might want to solve it.

  3. Figure or diagram (10 points) that shows the overall model or idea. The idea is to make your paper more accessible, especially to readers who are starting by skimming your paper.

  4. Formal description (20 points) of the model / loss function / conjecture. Include at least one of:

  5. Related work (20 points) section and bibliography.

  6. Comparison or demonstration (20 points). Include at least one of:

  7. Limitations (15 points) of your approach.

  8. Conclusions (5 points)

Extra guidelines:

Positive examples: PixelVAE: A Latent Variable Model for Natural Images Your project report doesn't have to be as polished as this, of course!