CS885 Spring 2018 - Reinforcement Learning

Paper Presentation

• 20% of final grade

Format

• At most 20 minutes
• Presentation is done individually (i.e., no team)
• Use slides for your presentation
• Video recording of your presentation is optional
• Put yourself in the shoes of the author and present the paper as if it was your own

Suggested structure for the presentation

Introduction

• What is the paper about?
• What is the problem tackled?
• What is the solution proposed?

Background

• Explain the problem tackled
• Explain necessary background

Content of paper

• Explain proposed solution at a high level
• Explain advantages and disadvantages of the proposed solution
• Relate the solution to other work

Empirical evaluation

• Summarize the empirical evaluation
• Highlight anything that's special

Conclusion

• What are the contributions?
• What is the take home message?
• What are possible extensions for future work?