CS 329X Logistics

⭐ The below is drawn from the requirements for CS224U and CS 347.

Requirements

Class Participation

• Class participation grades are based on whether you productively contribute to the classroom discussions in lecture and discussion form.

Homework

• There will be 2 homework assignments covering core class content.

Project

• Please check out the details of the course project here.
• Please discuss your project idea with instructor/TA early on in the course.
• The project consists of three miltstones: Literature Review, Experiment Protocol and Final Paper.

Grading

• Homework: 30%
• Participation: 5%
• Project: Literature Review: 10%
• Project: In-Class Pitch: 5%
• Project: Experiment Protocol: 20%
• Project: Poster Presentation: 5%
• Project: Final Paper: 25%

This is the system we will use at the end of the quarter to map numerical final grades to letter grades. No curve is applied, and there are no other factors shaping the mapping from weighted averages (details here) to letter grades.

Grade range	Letter grade
≥ 100	A+
≥ 94	A
≥ 90	A−
≥ 87	B+
≥ 84	B
≥ 80	B−
≥ 77	C+
≥ 74	C
≥ 70	C−
≥ 67	D+
≥ 64	D
≥ 60	D−
< 60	No pass

Academic Honesty

• Please familiarize yourself with Stanford's honor code. We will adhere to it and follow through on its penalty guidelines.

• It is expected that you accurately represent your own work and the work of others in this class. Ideas should be your own. Any use of tools (e.g., ChatGPT) should be limited to clarity and credited appropriately in your submission.

Late Days

1. Each student will have a total of 4 free late (calendar) days applicable to any assignment (including the lit review and project milestone) except the final project paper. Final project papers cannot be turned in late under any circumstances.
2. Free late days can be used at any time, no questions asked. Each 24 hours or part thereof that a homework or quiz is late uses up one full late day. Once these late days are exhausted, any homework or quiz turned in late will be penalized 10% per late day.
3. If a group's assignment is late n days, then each group member is charged n late days.
4. Late days are never transferrable between students, even students in the same group.
5. Late days do not apply to the final submission of the course project.

Policy on Submitting Related Final Projects to Multiple Classes

• On the one hand, we want to encourage you to pursue unified interdisciplinary projects that weave together themes from multiple classes. On the other hand, we need to ensure that final projects for this course are original and involve a substantial new effort.

• To try to meet both these demands, we are adopting the following policy on joint submission: if your final project for this course is related to your final project for another course, you are required to submit both projects to us by our final project due date. If we decide that the projects are too similar, your project will receive a failing grade. To avoid this extreme outcome, we strongly encourage you to stay in close communication with us if your project is related to another you are submitting for credit, so that there are no unhappy surprises at the end of the term. Since there is no single objective standard for what counts as "different enough", it is better to play it safe by talking with us.

• Fundamentally, we are saying that combining projects is not a shortcut. In a sense, we are in the same position as professional conferences and journals, which also need to watch out for multiple submissions. You might have a look at the ACL/NAACL policy, which strives to ensure that any two papers submitted to those conferences make substantially different contributions – our goal here as well.

Regrade

• It is very important to us that all assignments are properly graded. The teaching staff works extremely hard to grade fairly and to turn around assignments quickly. We know what you work hard, and we respect that. Occasionally, mistakes happen, and it's important to us to correct them. If you believe there is an error in your assignment grading, please submit an explanation in writing to the staff within seven days of receiving the grade. We will regrade the entire assignment to ensure quality.

• No regrade requests will be accepted orally, and no regrade requests will be accepted more than seven days after receipt of the assignment. Regrade requests must be respectful; we will not consider any regrade requests containing disrespectful language.

Names and Pronouns

• Use the names and pronouns (e.g., they/them, she/her, he/him, just a name, or something else) indicated by your classmates for themselves. If you don’t want to share a set of pronouns for yourself, that is perfectly acceptable, too. If your name or pronouns change during the course, we invite you to share this with us and/or other students, so we may talk with you and refer to your ideas in discussion as you would wish.