There is no midterm and no final exam. Instead, they are replaced by a Kaggle competition (40% of final grade for CS480 and 30% of final grade for CS680). A training dataset will be made available as part of the competition. Your task is to train machine learning algorithms to achieve the highest possible accuracy on the test set. You are free to use any machine learning algorithms from the course. Your grade will be based on the accuracy that you will achieve in the competition. The deadline for making submissions to the competition is Dec 8, 2020 at 11:59 pm (Waterloo time).
The Kaggle competition for the course is now open. To enroll in the competition, click on the private link posted on LEARN and Piazza. Follow the instructions on the competition webpage to build and submit your solution.