IT 390 (LLM Basics)

Spring 2026

Craig Miller

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Assignments

• Final Project

Final Project
Due Sunday June 14 before 11:30pm

Overview

The final project involves submitting a report summarizing your project. It includes the presentation during finals week.

Requirements

• The report addresses the required content
• Presentation (5-10 minutes) during finals week

The required content of the report may be addressed with the following sections:

• Abstract: an overall summary of the accomplishment, results and intepretaions
• Introduction: motivation of the project with overview of the report
• Background concepts: explanations of the concepts used for the project
• Methodology: the procedure of what you did with enough detail to reproduce similar results
• Results: summarized outcomes with comparisons
• Discussion with limitations: explaining the results in terms of the concepts; summary of what was learned

Submission

Submit a pdf file of your proposal. A typical report will be 2 to 4 pages in length, not including appendices and other supplemental materials.

Grading

This proposal is worth 40 points. Assessment will be based on the following criteria (8 points each):

• Presentation: the report is well organized, written, and formatted.
• Background concepts: supporting concepts are well explained.
• Specificity: the report explains the approach taken so that it could be reproduced in obtaining similar results.
• Quality of interpretation: the results are discussed, placed in context with limitations. Limitations may be discussed as future work.
• Completeness: all requirements are addressed.