Three Concepts: Utility, The Projects
In addition to weekly assignments and class participation, students are expected to finish five projects. The weekly assignments introduce various optimization techniques that will be used in the projects. Even if these assignments are not absolutely mandatory, the projects are: failing even a single project means failing the whole course. However, the projects do not influence the grades uniformly: the "grade weight" given below indicates the relative importance of that particular project when deciding the final grade.
The amount of work required depends very much on the background of the students. With no previous knowledge of probability theory and little experience in programming the load can be significant. However, please note that Projects I-III can be done in groups (size of these groups depends on the number of participants).
Project I: Time constrained k-armed bandit competition
Grade weight: 15%
Deadline: This project is done in several phases. Check the deadlines in
the course schedule on the main page.
Results: Team points Arm distributions
Project II: Graph layout optimization
Grade weight: 20%
Deadline: Check the course schedule.
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(Here ordered as top-left=Group 1, top-right=Group 2, etc.)
Project III: Tragedy of the commons
Grade weight: 25%
Deadline: Check the course schedule.
Results:
First phase (no effect on grading):
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Phase two: Average scores (over 30 repetitions)
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Cumulative score curves (single run):
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Project IV: Poster
Grade weight: 15%
Deadline: April 24, 16-19. Poster reports are due on April 27 by 23:59.
Presented posters
Project V: Term paper
Grade weight: 25%
Deadline: April 27 by 23:59.
Projects I, II, III and V:
The project groups are listed here.
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