Arcadia AI — Master's Program
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Program  /  Semester 4 — Thesis & Production
Practicum

Pre-Thesis Practicum

Pre-thesis practicum: the final experiment and results gathering for the thesis

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About the course

This practicum sets aside dedicated time to complete the experimental part of the thesis under the guidance of a thesis advisor. Students run the final experiments, put together an ablation study, and collect and validate results. It concludes with a detailed report on the work done, including Experiments and Results sections ready to be inserted directly into the thesis.

What you'll learn

Complete the experimental part of the research with documented results and ablations
Prepare the Experiments and Results sections of the thesis
Submit a reproducible artifact (code + data + configs) to pass the audit

Key topics

Planning the final experimental design within resource and time constraints
Ablation studies: design and interpretation
Statistical significance of results: bootstrap, paired tests
Reproducibility: the final artifact checklist
Writing up the practicum report
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