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• Presenter should cover the assigned paper as well as any basic background needed for the presentation.
• Presentation should be around 60 mins. The remaining 15-20 mins will be used for discussion.
• Presentations have 25% of the total grade. So, the presenter is expected to spend enough time creating a good presentation with well coverage of material. The quality of the slides, the oral presentation, and the understanding of the content will be all taken into account for the grade.
• The two students should agree among themselves on how to divide the presentation (each student should give around 30 mins).
  

• Hints for Good Presentation:
  
• Each presentation should have 2-3 slides as a background, 1-2 slides as a motivation, 1-2 slides as a problem statement, and then the details of the paper.
  
• Practice your presentation, know what you want to say in each slide.
• More tips can be found here.
  

• When a research paper is presented, all students, other than the presenter, need to read the paper and deliver a one-page review of that paper. The whole class should engage in discussing the presented paper, e.g., what are the strong points, what needs to be addressed further, what are the weak points, and possible extensions.
• The presented paper will be available to all students at least one week before the presentation.
  
• The review due date is the start of class before the presentation begins.
• The grade will depend on the quality of your review. Basically, each review should have the three components below: Summary, Strong Points, and Weak Points.

• Hints for Good Reviews:
• Summary (one paragraph 5-10 lines): Each review should start with a summary paragraph that describes briefly the addressed problem and main challenges, and the solution.
• Strong Points (2-3 points): List 2-3 strong points that you see about the paper and the proposed solution, e.g., why this work is novel, what is the most interesting idea behind the solution, does the paper have enough evaluation and performance measures.
  
• Weak Points (2-3 points): List 2-3 weak points that you think have not been addressed adequately, possible weaknesses, assumptions that are not practical, or extensions you think are good.