CAAM 654: Sparse Optimization
Monday and Wednesday, 4:15PM-5:30PM, Duncan 1042.
Instructor: Wotao Yin / Co-Instructor: Ming Yan
Final Project
About CAAM 654
Enrollment 21: 18 for credit, 3 audits; 1 from U.Houston
Majors: CAAM, ECE, STAT, Applied PHYS
Goals
Learn something interesting or even produce somethong cool.
Find a good partner and enjoy collaboration.
Sell what you learn or create; impress the class!
Projects
Places to find interesting topics
Repositories such as optimization-online.org, dsp.rice.edu/cs, CAAM tech reports, UCLA CAM tech reports
List of Top-Downloaded papers
Personal websites and blogs
Recent workshops and conferences (NIPS, ISMP, SIAM Imaging, Allerton, ICASSP, and so on)
Talk to people
What next?
Pick up the background
Read papers and lecture notes, watch talk videos (if they are available)
Try it out (download the code or write it yourself), reproduce simulation results
Prepare your presentation (don't start last day!)
Good to be ambitious, planned, disciplined, and collaborative
Milestones
End of September: team and topic, plan and goals, Owlspace submission required
Mid October: interim report, 1 page or a few slides, Owlspace submission required
November: presentation starts, 2-3 teams per meeting
End of semester: ZIP of your report or slides, Owlspace submission required
Presentation requirements
Be correct
Give clear background and motivations
Summarize the method and its novelty
Show applications and simulation results
Discuss open questions and future work
Properly credit people
End of semester submission. The ZIP file should include
Names of team members
Papers, slides, and/or codes downloaded
Your presentation slides
Your codes if the paper is about an algorithm
(optional) a report
About collaboration
You can choose to work alone
Find a responsible collaborator with complementary skills
Establish consensus on the plan and goals early
Set up internel deadlines
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