CS 224V

Conversational Virtual Assistants with Deep Learning

Fall 2023

Project Info

Each project will be in a group of 2 students. If you are looking for a partner, please refer to this Ed thread.

A core part of CS224V will be working on a project throughout the quarter. We are very excited to announce that we have mentors and advisors across many disciplines who have signed on to help you with these projects. These includes various leaders across Stanford as well as with external partners.

Mentor-Written Proposals

[Due Wed 10/11] Mentor-Written Project Interest Form (Link)

If you are interested in joining one of the Mentor-Written Project Proposals, we want you to decide and briefly explain which projects you want to pursue. This will help match you to a proposal with a good fit.

From your project interests, we will then work to assign you to a proposal that is the best fit. You will be assigned by early Week 4 to mentor-written proposals.

[Due Monday 10/23 @ 2:00pm PST] Full Project Proposal (Gradescope)

This will be an extended version of the mentor-written proposal. Your full proposal can be largely the same as what has already been provided by your mentor, but you should edit it if you are narrowing/expanding the scope and customizing it to your interests. The proposal should have more details about when each phase of the project will be completed, the datasets you will use, a proposed weekly schedule, and projected ideas of what each partner will work on.

In addition to the fields already in the mentor-written proposal, the full project proposal will additionally ask you to fill-out:

Prior work:
Expected demo at the end of the quarter:
Weekly schedule:

Custom Proposals

[Due Mon 10/16] Custom Project Intent Form (Link)

If you are doing a custom project, ahead of your full proposal, we want you to start formalizing what it is that you intend to work on. This will be non-binding, and is an exercise for you to formalize your ideas, gain early feedback, and find a project partner.

Please still review the Mentor-Written Project Proposals for examples of what details we are looking for as you propose your custom project.

The intent will ask you to specify:

Title:
Team Member(s):
Key Question:
Motivation:
Project description:

[Due Monday 10/23 @ 2:00pm PST] Full Project Proposal (Gradescope)

In addition to the above fields, the full project proposal will additionally ask you to fill-out:

Mentor (if known):
Prior work:
Expected demo at the end of the quarter:
Weekly schedule:

Final Project Presentation, Poster, and Paper

On Wednesday, 12/6, we will host a presentation + poster session for all final projects from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM. Each group will have 90 seconds to do a brief presentation at the beginning, in our usual lecture location. We will move on to the poster session afterward. We will adopt the same poster session guidelines as CS 224N

A final paper about your project will be due on 12/12, 11:59 PM. You should also submit your code, along with a README, of how to run your program for a demo. This is due at the same time as the paper. It is recommended to include a short video demo of your project along with your code.

Here is a suggested outline of the final paper:

(1) Abstract: 2-3 paragraphs summarizing the paper, including the results
(2) Introduction, which includes the motivation, main idea, and overall contribution
(3) Related work
(4) The core ideas
(5) Experimental results
(7) What you learned and future work
(8) Conclusion
(9) Appendix: Examples, Prompts that you engineered ...