CS 4364 Lab 6

  • Lab 6 Review, Due Wednesday, 02/25/2026, by midnight (23:59, EST)

  • Midterm: Due Wednesday, 03/04/2026, by midnight (23:59, EST)

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Goals

The goals for this lab assignment are:

  • Learn how to conduct Literature Review

  • Practice how to review research papers

  • Get comfortable with using reviewer guide from CS conferences

  • Get comfortable with ten-page research papers

1. Reviewer Guide

For this week, please implement the below two sections of the Reviewer Guide:

  • Review content

  • Examples of Review Content

2. Review Examples

Please read the two paper review examples below:

8-8-10, Best paper award Reduced, Reused and Recycled: The Life of a Dataset in Machine Learning Research By Bernard Koch, Emily Denton, Alex Hanna, and Jacob Gates Foster.

7-7-10, ML and BCI EEGEyeNet: a Simultaneous Electroencephalography and Eye-tracking Dataset and Benchmark for Eye Movement Prediction By Ard Kastrati and Martyna Beata Plomecka and Damian Pascual and Lukas Wolf and Victor Gillioz and Roger Wattenhofer and Nicolas Langer.

3. Write Your Own Review

  • Task: Review all the TWELVE midterm draft submissions. You will receive an email indicating which reviewer code you will be using. Please adhere to the guidelines for double-blind reviewing as outlined on the Reviewer Guidelines page.

  • How to Write Your Review:

  • Your review should follow the Reviewer Guide and Review Examples. Be thorough, constructive, and respectful in your feedback. Below is the structure your review should follow:

    1. Summary and contributions: Provide a summary of the work, including the paper’s innovation, connection to the topic, and its potential impact. Write at least five sentences.

    2. Strengths: Highlight the strengths of the poster. Support your opinions with specific details from the poster. Write at least five sentences.

    3. Weaknesses: Discuss the weaknesses in a constructive manner. Be specific and provide examples to help the authors improve. Write at least eight sentences. Important: Avoid vague or subjective complaints. Be specific, detailed, and polite. Constructive feedback helps authors understand your viewpoint.

    4. Clarity: Comment on the clarity of the paper. Provide examples of sections that could benefit from revision for improved clarity. Write at least three sentences.

    5. Relation to prior work: Assess how the work relates to prior research. The related work section should not just list references but explain how the proposed work differs from existing literature. Write at least three sentences.

    6. Overall score: Provide an overall score for the poster. I expect most reviews to fall around 6 out of 10 or lower, using the EEGEyeNet rubric (7-7-10) as a reference. Remember: This score is for helping your peers improve their posters, and is NOT tied to their midterm grades.

    7. Questions: (Optional) If applicable, include any additional questions for the authors to clarify their work or improve their approach.

4. Submission Guide

  • This lab is an individual assignment, Each student must complete and submit their own work. Team submissions are not allowed.

    Each student must submit one ZIP file named lab_6_lastname.zip.The ZIP file should include:

    1. Twelve review PDF files in AAAI format, name your review files such as submission_1st_reviewer_A7D5.PDF, submission_5th_reviewer_A7D5.PDF

    2. To maintain a double-blind review process, each student will be assigned an individual reviewer code. Use your reviewer code in all file names and do not include your name inside the review documents.

5. Notes

  • Submit your zip file for the lab to BlackBoard.

  • Lab assignments will typically be released on Thursday and will be due by midnight on the following Wednesday.

  • Lab 6 Review, Due Wednesday, 02/25/2026, by midnight (23:59, EST)

  • Midterm: Due Wednesday, 03/04/2026, by midnight (23:59, EST)