Prerequisite

COSC 4P76 Machine Learning

Project proposal:

Topic

The project is in a topic on machine learning, the topic must be approved by me beforehand. You may propose your own topic related to machine learning (or choose one of my proposed topics, see class hand-out). I will give details regarding choice of topic in class.
NOTE: You may work in pairs (and in rare & special cases depending on scope of project I may allow group of three). Of course you can also work alone, but I recommend working in pairs as much as possible.

Project topic Proposal (Due date: TBA)

The purpose of the project proposal is:

to get you started on your project;
to identify a topic for your project;
to define the extent and the scope of your project; and
to receive instructors approval and feedback on the above items.

The project proposal must be at most 1 page long and include the following items:

One paragraph that describes the project and the learning task in plain English
A Precise description of the learning task identifying the task, performance measure, and training experience.
Suggested choices for designing the learning system in terms of type and representation of training examples, and the learning algorithm.
Suggested experimental setup and analysis of results
References to related material (publications, tools, web sites)