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Presentation Requirements

On the last class meeting your team gives a 5-minute talk + 2-minute open Q&A on what you built and what you found. Every team member is a speaker, the slide deck is in English, and the spoken delivery can be in Chinese or English.
CS3317 — Artificial Intelligence 5-min talk + 2-min Q&A All members speak English slides 10% of course grade
Rule 1
Everyone speaks.
All members of the team come up together and each must take a meaningful turn at the microphone. We don't want one person presenting while the rest of the team watches.
Rule 2
Slides in English.
The entire deck — titles, body text, figure captions, table headers, references — is in English. This is the same audience the report was written for.
Rule 3
Oral delivery: Chinese or English.
Speak in whichever language you'll be clearest in. Mixing within the team is fine — one member can present in Chinese while another presents in English.
When
Mon Jun 15
Last class meeting
Length
5 + 2 min
5 min talk strictly timed; 2 min open Q&A
Format
PDF / PPTX
Pre-loaded on the lectern computer from your Canvas upload
Counts as
10%
course grade · separate from the 100 project pts

1All members are on stage together

Every member of the team comes up to the front for the entire talk and each member takes a meaningful, prepared turn at the microphone. A two-person team will split the deck roughly in half; a three-person team in roughly thirds. Hand-offs should be clean (no re-introductions of the project, no overlap).

The Q&A is open: anyone in the audience can ask any member of the team a question, and anyone on the team may answer. We will deliberately ask questions of the member who did not seem to present that part, to verify that the whole team understands the whole project. If a member cannot defend a part of the project that was claimed as their own work, that is an integrity issue (see the academic-integrity rules).

Solo teams (1 member) give the whole talk themselves — no rule change there.

2Slide and spoken-language rules

SurfaceRequired languageNotes
Slide deck (titles, body, figures, tables, captions, references) English only Math, code, variable names, and proper nouns are fine as-is. If you cite a Chinese resource, give the title in English alongside the original.
Spoken delivery Chinese or English Pick the one each speaker is clearest in. Different members on the same team may use different languages.
Q&A Chinese or English Match the language the question was asked in when possible.

Reason for the asymmetry: the slide deck stays on the screen and on Canvas, where it has to be readable to the same audience that reads the English report. The spoken delivery is live and goes only to people in the room, so the language choice is yours.

3What to cover in 5 minutes

The talk is a compressed version of the report; the required report sections are the right scaffold. A suggested time budget:

Problem + analysis What you're predicting, why test-time modality dropout is the design question.
30 s
Method choice rationale + pipeline figure Why this approach, what you rejected, and the architecture diagram in one stretch.
1.5 min
Main results + per-modality ablation Per-modality ablation and stratified-by-mask results. Show your best numbers, not all of them.
2 min
Discussion + AI-usage disclosure What worked, what didn't, what you'd do with another week. One slide summarising the AI tools you used.
1 min
Total talk time
5 min

Numbers are a suggestion; tune to your story. The hard rule is the 5-minute cap, followed by 2 minutes of open Q&A.

4Slide guidance

  • About 6–10 slides. Roughly one slide per 30–40 seconds. Less is more — going under is fine, going over the 5-minute cap is not.
  • One idea per slide. A title that states the idea, plus one figure or table or short bullet list. Avoid wall-of-text slides.
  • Figures over text. A pipeline diagram, a results table with the F1 numbers, and a mask-stratified bar chart will carry the talk further than paragraphs of bullets.
  • Readable from the back. Body text ≥ 22 pt, figure text ≥ 18 pt, axis labels visible.
  • Cite numbers visibly. If you put a single F1 score on a slide, label which split, which mask subset, and which threshold it's for.
  • Submit as slides.pdf or slides.pptx in the Canvas zip by Jun 14, 23:59. The instructor will pre-load every team's slides onto the lectern computer before class — you do not need to bring them on a USB drive unless you want to make last-minute edits.

Do

  • Use English consistently across every slide.
  • Mark every speaker's section clearly in the deck.
  • Show the pipeline figure once, refer back to it.
  • Practice the hand-offs between speakers.
  • Run the talk end-to-end with a timer at least once.

Don't

  • Mix Chinese and English on the slides.
  • Read paragraphs of bullet text verbatim.
  • Have one member present 7 minutes and another say "thanks" at the end.
  • Demo live code or open a notebook on the lectern.
  • Show the entire leaderboard history — show the final result.

5Open Q&A

After the 5-minute talk, the floor is open for 2 minutes of Q&A. We will ask questions of any team member, and questions are not pre-shared. Common directions:

  • Why didn't you try X? — testing your rationale against an obvious alternative.
  • What is this number on slide N? — testing that you understand your own results, not just memorised them.
  • What would break if assumption Y didn't hold? — testing whether you reasoned about the method or just ran the recipe.
  • Walk me through the line of code that does Z. — testing that you wrote (or fully understand) what you submitted, especially relevant for the AI-usage disclosure.

The audience may also ask questions. You may answer in either language; if the question was in Chinese, answering in Chinese is preferred so the asker can follow up.

6How the presentation is graded

The presentation is graded separately from the project's 100 points — it counts as the 10% course-level presentation component. The scoring is mechanical: 5 dimensions × 2 points each (half points OK) = 10 points total. The instructor and all 16 teams use the same score sheet; each team scores the other 15 teams (you don't score your own).

Your team's final presentation score: 0.5 × instructor total + 0.5 × peer-mean total.

DimensionPointsWhat "good" looks like
Method 方法 /2 Anyone in the room could re-state your approach after the talk; rationale is defensible.
Experiments 实验 /2 Per-modality + per-mask-subset numbers shown on a slide, not just claimed verbally.
Slides 幻灯片 /2 One idea per slide, readable from the back, English, no walls of text.
Clarity 讲解清晰度 /2 Speakers are audible, well-paced, and the talk flows; every member contributes substantively.
Q&A 答辩 /2 Members can explain and defend any part of their own submission.
Total 总分 /10 Final score per team = 0.5 × instructor + 0.5 × peer-mean.

Each dimension uses a 3-point anchor: 0 missing / incomplete · 1 acceptable · 2 excellent. Half points (0.5, 1.5) are allowed when a row sits between anchors. A printed score sheet will be handed out to every team on the day.

7Day-of checklist

  • Arrive 10 minutes early. The previous team will end on time; you should be ready when your number is called.
  • Sit together as a team. Easier to hand off the mic and easier for the audience to see who's on stage next.
  • Bring a USB drive only if you need to update your slides. The instructor will have pre-loaded the version you uploaded to Canvas; bring a USB only if you've made last-minute edits and want to swap the deck before your slot.
  • All members come up together when called. Stay at the front for the whole talk and Q&A.
  • If you cannot attend in person on the day for a documented reason, email t.huang@sjtu.edu.cn before the day, not after.