Assignments (for both COMP307 and AIML420)

Tutors:

• Fangfang Zhang (head tutor, organising marking), fangfang.zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
• Baligh Al-Helali, Baligh.Al-Helali@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
• Kaan Demir, demirkaan@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
• Christian Raymond, raymonchri2@myvuw.ac.nz
• Joao Costa, joao.costa@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
• Harisu Abdullahi Shehu, harisu.shehu@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
• Jack Naish, naishjack@myvuw.ac.nz
• Qinglan Fan, qinglan.fan@ecs.vuw.ac.nz

Help desks

For all weeks (except for public holidays), our in-person helpdesks will be held in CO242b. Our online helpdesks will be held via the zoom link https://vuw.zoom.us/my/comp307.

• Monday: 3:00-4:00pm ---- Kaan Demir (CO242b)
• Tuesday: 3:00-4:00pm ---- Joao Costa (CO242b)
• Wednesday: 3:00-4:00pm ---- Christian Raymond (CO242b)
• Thursday: 3:00-4:00pm ---- Harisu Abdullahi Shehu (CO242b)
• Friday: 3:00-4:00pm ---- Jack Naish (online: https://vuw.zoom.us/my/comp307)

For the four weeks (except for public holidays) starting with 22 March, 26 April, 10 May and 24 May, we will have the following extra slots (in-person in CO242b, online via https://vuw.zoom.us/my/comp307):

• Monday: 5:00-6:00pm ---- Kaan Demir (CO242b)
• Tuesday: 5:00-6:00pm ---- Joao Costa (CO242b)
• Wednesday: 5:00-6:00pm ---- Christian Raymond (CO242b)
• Thursday: 5:00-6:00pm ---- Harisu Abdullahi Shehu (CO242b)
• Friday: 5:00-6:00pm ---- Jack Naish (online: https://vuw.zoom.us/my/comp307)

Assignment 1 (15%): due 28 March (Sun) 23:59

• Assignment Description: PDF
• Related Data Files: /vol/comp307/assignment1-new/, or you can download from ZIP
• Golf dataset: ZIP
• Due: 11:59pm Sunday 28 March 2021

Assignment 2 (12%): due 2 May (Sun) 23:59

• Assignment Description: PDF
• Related Data Files: ZIP
• Genetic Programming Packages:
  • JGAP with a tutorial
  • DEAP with tutorials
• Due: 11:59pm Sunday 2 May 2021

Test 1 (25%): 21 Apr (Wed) 18:00-19:00

• Last Name A-K: MCLT101
• Last Name L-Z: MCLT103
• Closed book, held in-person for all students in Wellington.
• Pre-test office hours: 21st April 1-2pm in HULT220.

Assignment 3 (10%): due 16 May (Sun) 23:59

• Assignment Description PDF Version
• Related Data Files: /vol/comp307/assignment3/, or you can download from ZIP

Assignment 4 (8%): due 30 May (Sun) 23:59

• Assignment Description PDF Version
• Related Date Files: vrp-data.zip
• Python template code: vrp-code.zip

Test 2 (30%): 12 June (Sat) 14:30

• COMP307 Last Name A-K: KKLT303
• COMP307 Last Name L-Z: HMLT205
• AIML420: KKLT301

• Cover page: PDF

AIML420 Essay (15%): 18 June (Fri) 23:59

• Pick up TWO AI topics that you want to do deeper literature review and send them to me along with 2-3 representative associated paper information (authors, paper title, publication venue and year);
• I will decide one topic between the two topics you send to me;
• You continue to do read more papers and do further literature review and write the literature review essay, and finally submit to the online submission system.
• The essay should be about 1000-2000 words.

You can follow the structure of any survey/review paper published in good journals that you find online. One example structure can have the following Sections:

• Introduction
• Background
• Your summary of the field (should categorise the work, and divide into several sub-sections)
• Challenges and Future Directions
• Conclusions
• References

Plagiarism is NOT allowed! You CANNOT copy/paste content from the papers you read into your essay! You will get 0 marks if we find plagiarism.