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

Research Seminar

A weekly review of frontier papers and the development of your research voice

Instructor to be announced

About the course

The seminar is built around discussing recent preprints and papers at the NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR level. Each student leads several sessions as a presenter, peer-reviews classmates' work, and receives feedback from a thesis advisor. The seminar supports ongoing thesis work and prepares students for conference presentations.

What you'll learn

Conduct deep critical analysis of contemporary ML papers, in both oral and written form
Write a structured, conference-level peer review
Present interim thesis results and defend methodological choices

Key topics

Critical analysis of ML papers: contribution, methodology, limitations
Peer review: the structure of an ICML/NeurIPS review
Presenting your own results: talks and Q&A
Identifying research gaps and formulating hypotheses
Academic writing: abstract, introduction, related work
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