Presentation Guidelines

Format

Presentation Assignments

Presentation Template (courtesy of Georgia Gkioxari)

• Includes tips at the end!

Each presentation has four roles:

• Champion -- Summarize paper and its key ideas & strengths

• Critic -- Highlight main weaknesses of paper

• Pioneer -- Brainstorm new research opportunities

• Entrepreneur --Brainstorm practical applications & products

Tips & Suggestions

General

• Minimize text (avoid full sentences)

• Use visuals whenever possible

• Avoid long lists (like this list)

• Each slide conveys 1-2 big ideas

• Use examples to highlight fundamental insights

• Don’t make examples overly complicated

  • Extra details are nuisance variables (they confuse humans and LLMs alike!)

• Convey key motivations clearly

• (Note: presentation template has examples in the end!)

Champion

• Focus on presenting key ideas using 2-3 main figures

• Use illustrative examples!

• Be wary of copying complex figures directly from paper

  • Simplify!  (Easy thing is to hide parts of figure)

• Present key experimental results (don't need to present every result)

• Focus on distilling concepts into fundamental insights

Critic

• Briefly summarize paper to transition to criticism

  • Emphasize the pieces that will be criticized

• Focus on the biggest issues (no need to nitpick)

• Oftentimes results don't jive with introduction (e.g., over-claiming)

Pioneer

• Focus on the fundamental innovation

  • Why were proposed research ideas blocked before?

  • Does this paper unblock?

• Use simple examples to highlight the blocking points

Entrepreneur

• Same as Pioneer, but for practical applications & products