COMP9312 Notices

Last Notice

Posted by Dong Wen Saturday 31 August 2024, 11:48:14 AM.

Hi all,

This should be the last notice from COMP9312_24T2. We hope you had a great experience in COMP9312 this term and all the best.

For those who have been granted special consideration to take the supplementary exam. You should have received an email for the supp exam details. Please reply the email for confirmation.

Best regards,

Dong

Ass2 Result Released

Posted by Dong Wen Monday 19 August 2024, 04:37:55 PM.

We have released Ass2 marks on Moodle (the average mark is about 16--17). If you find any incorrect marks, please send an email to the your marking tutor before 11:59pm Wednesday 21th Aug . Any new marking issue request after that time would not be processed. Similar as previous assignments, the ass2 is marked by several tutors. To avoid unnecessary workload, please do not send messages everywhere. For marking issue, you can just contact yu.kong@unsw.edu.au who will contact the corresponding marking tutor offline for each individual case. You can also cc me for any serious issues.

Final Exam Paper

Posted by Dong Wen Monday 19 August 2024, 09:38:11 AM.

Please find the following final exam paper.

https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9312/24T2/final_exam/

Submit your answer pdf on Moodle by 1pm.

Ask for clarifying any questions on the EdForum.

9312 Final Exam

Posted by Dong Wen Friday 16 August 2024, 01:41:17 PM.

The exam of COMP9312 will be arranged in 9:45-13:00 Monday 19 Aug 2024 . The exam paper will be released at around 9:40 via webcms notice, and you will receive the email as usual. There are 8 questions in the exam paper. You are required to write your answers in a pdf file and submit it via Moodle. To ask questions in exam, please create a private post on the EdForum. The webcms may be blocked because a large number of access at the same time. I recommend you to download all materials and keep them offline before the exam. We will send any update notice via the EdForum if webcms notice (broadcast email) does not work. So please keep watching both the email inbox and the EdForum during the exam.

Marking and Difficulty. The exam difficulty will be revealed by the average marks. As we mentioned in the last lecture, if the average marks are lower than 65/100, we will scale it up to at least 65. We would never scale down marks. We would not provide marking details or comments for the final exam. You will directly receive your final marks from the exam unit on around 29 Aug.

Advice for the exam:

Several questions are not designed for students to get full marks easily but it is not difficult to get high marks. So try to provide some ideas even you cannot provide an optimal solution.

Files submitted after 1pm will be ignored (unless you have Equitable Learning Plan). Note that the load of Moodle may be very heavy in the last few minutes. So do not leave the submission to the last minute.

We do not accept any late submission for reasons like " I submit a wrong file ". Please double check your submission file.

Please make sure your devices (machines, phones, etc...) are fully charged. Power outage or network outage should not be a big issue. If there is any accident, you should first let me know (dong.wen@unsw.edu.au) ASAP. Then, a supporting proof document is required by the department for the special consideration. Note that if you submit your exam paper, no special consideration would be considered normally.

We will run plagiarism-checking on your submissions. Several suspect cases have been observed in the project. Please do not break the rule.

Good luck~

​Following up project marks

Posted by Dong Wen Tuesday 13 August 2024, 03:33:35 PM.

Just remind a display issue of the project comment on Moodle, which replaces O(n) by a thumb-down emoji . If you are not clear with any comment, feel free to contact us.

Project Mark Released

Posted by Dong Wen Tuesday 13 August 2024, 03:14:49 PM.

We have released project marks on Moodle. If you find any incorrect marks (which may happened given the large amount of code submissions), please at least send an email to your marking tutors before 11:59pm Thursday 15th Aug . Any new marking issue request after that time would not be processed. You can find the email of your marking tutor in marking comments. For special consideration students, please double check whether your penalty is waived correctly according to the extension offered by the SC team.

p.s., the next consultation schedule can be found on the EdForum.

Final Exam & Project Mark Date

Posted by Dong Wen Saturday 10 August 2024, 12:11:21 PM.

Hi all,

Final Exam Time. I would like to first thank all students who fill the MyExperience feedback (over 50% response rate), and 15mins extra time will be added. The final exam will be arranged in 9:45--13:00 19 Aug . We will release the exam paper via webcms in 9:30--9:40 for potential network delay. More detailed instructions or potential schedule update for the final exam will be notified late next week. Please keep watching your mail box.

Potential time collision with COMP4337/9337. Some students contacted me and the convenor of COMP9337 for the collision of final exams. The current solution is that the affected student can start the exam of COMP9337 at 1:15pm and finish at 3:30 in a separated room. So if you have the same issue, please contact the convenor of COMP9337 to confirm the arrangement. If any new problems come up, contact me and let's discuss together how to fix it.

Project/Ass2 Result. Given the challenges of reviewing various code files from students, our project marking job is still ongoing. We expect to release the project mark on Tuesday, and two days will be given to allow you argue your marks. The Ass2 marks are expected to release after the final exam (1 or 2 days later).

Consultation in week 12. Most rooms in CSE are now using for the final exam. We are trying to find a room for the consultation in week 12. It is expected to happen on Thursday or Friday. Once the room is confirmed, we will pin a post on the EdForm with the detailed schedule and location.

Regards,

DonG

MyExperience Survey

Posted by Dong Wen Tuesday 30 July 2024, 03:54:40 PM.

Hi,

The current response rate of MyExperience Survey is quite low (around 20% now). Please help take 1min to provide some feedback for the survey. For a sweetener as mentioned in lectures, 15mins extra time will be added into the final exam when the response rate is over 50% by 7 Aug. Appreciate in advance for your support.

Regards,

Dong

Week 10 Guest Lecture

Posted by Dong Wen Sunday 28 July 2024, 04:41:27 PM.

Hi,

As mentioned in the first lecture, we will run a guest lecture in next Monday ( Week 10 Monday Lecture ) for a real case studies of GNN. Below is the topic for the guest lecture and a short bio for the lecturer Dr. Wang, whose research focus on graph neural network. The topic is good for the students who are interested in doing deep learning and other AI-driven projects/research. All content of the guest lecture would not appear in the final exam.

Title: Advanced topics of Graph Neural Networks.

Abstract: With the development of graph neural networks, there are a great number of research works proposed for the application of the GNNs. In this talk, we are going to discuss how graph neural work in different scenarios. There is some practical consideration when we design the algorithm to apply the graph neural networks. We will also see some practical examples of how graph neural networks help to improve the performance of tasks in various areas such as biochemical, database and e-commerce. This guest lecture will also include the combination of graph neural networks and trending language models.

Short Bio: Hanchen Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Technology Sydney. He has received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2016 and his doctorate degree in Computer Science from UTS in 2021. Dr. Wang's research interest includes machine learning for database, graph neural networks, subgraph matching.

Regards,

DonG

Ass 2 Q2 update

Posted by Dong Wen Thursday 25 July 2024, 11:27:10 AM.

Hi all,

Thanks for several students pointing out an issue in Ass2 Q2. Our tutors have updated the assignment page, and you can find an update log in the head of the page.

https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9312/24T2/assignment/ass2/

Regards,

Dong

Ass 2 Released

Posted by Dong Wen Tuesday 23 July 2024, 12:07:46 PM.

Hi all,

The assignment 2 has been released. The deadline is 9pm 2 Aug (Friday). Let us know if anything is not clear or any mistake exists.

https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9312/24T2/resources/98989

The MyExperience survey is also released. Please help fill the survey at your convenience.

Regards,

Dong

Project and General Tips

Posted by Dong Wen Thursday 18 July 2024, 08:40:35 PM.

This is a gentle reminder that the project deadline is 9pm this Friday. You may watch the EdForum regularly where there are a lot discussions regarding how to do the project.

Final Exam. The final exam will be on 19 Aug (morning), and the exam will be online. We have not received any detailed timetable in the exam day from the admin team at the moment. Note that the final exam will only cover the topics related to graph processing. Some topics (such as MapReduce and Word2Vec ) are just introduced to help understand challenges/advantages of corresponding graph techniques, and they would not appear in the final exam . More details about the final exam will be presented in the last lecture, and the sample exam paper will be released by week 10.

Tips for learning algorithms. Most knowledge in this course is about the optimization tricks to solve the problem (especially for the first part), which may need some independent thinking process to get solid skills. If you are struggling with any topic/algorithm, do not hesitate to talk with me after lectures, talk with your tutors, or send an email to the admin to book an individual consultation. We are all happy to support.

Ass 1 Mark Released

Posted by Dong Wen Monday 08 July 2024, 03:25:10 PM.

Ass1 marks have been released. You can have a look on Moodle.

If you find any mistake, just contact the email shown in your feedback, and the corresponding marking tutor will correct your mark after verification.

Project Q1 update

Posted by Dong Wen Wednesday 26 June 2024, 03:21:18 PM.

We just found the first question is uploaded with a wrong version. Our tutors are working on the correct one and will update it by tonight.

Project Released

Posted by Dong Wen Wednesday 26 June 2024, 02:26:14 PM.

We have released the project. You can find it on webcms or via the following link.

https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9312/24T2/project/index.html

The deadline is 9pm Week 8 Friday. Feel free to let us know if you any problem. We may update the project webpage in the next few days to fix any unclear description, typos, or mistakes. Any update for the project page will be listed in the top of the webpage.

EdForum Enrollment

Posted by Dong Wen Monday 17 June 2024, 12:11:58 PM.

Some students report that the self-enrollment link for the edforum does not work. I have correct it. Let me know if any problem still exists.

https://edstem.org/au/join/gws3EU

Week 3 Monday tutorial

Posted by Dong Wen Wednesday 05 June 2024, 07:51:00 PM.

There is no tutorial on Monday week 3 because of the public holiday. Students enrolling Monday tutorials can attend other tutorial sessions. All available tutorial sessions can be found in the following link.

https://timetable.unsw.edu.au/2024/COMP9312.html

Assignment 1 Release

Posted by Dong Wen Wednesday 05 June 2024, 02:50:58 PM.

We have released the Assignment 1 . Just let us know if you any question. We may update the page in the next few days to fix the reported typos and errors. The deadline is 9pm Friday Week 4.

A gentle reminder is that there is no lecture on Monday Week3 given the public holiday.

No tutorial in Week 1

Posted by Dong Wen Tuesday 28 May 2024, 06:28:36 PM.

Just remind again: there is no tutorial for COMP9312 in week 1

Welcome

Posted by Dong Wen Thursday 23 May 2024, 12:23:10 PM.

Hi

Welcome to COMP9312_24T2 . Our first lecture will be in 4pm-6pm next Monday . We will introduce the course in the first lecture. The slides will be uploaded to webcms on Monday before the lecture.

The self-registration link for the course forum is below. Note that only unsw.edu.au emails are allowed. On Webcms, you can find the registration link under the FAQ tab and the entry link on the menu. Feel free to ask questions on the forum.

Registration link (only need once to register yourself)

Entry link

Looking forward to talking with you on Monday~

LiC

Dong Wen

https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dwen/