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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