Grading and policies

Final grades will be comprised of

20%: Problem sets, which contain both written and programming portions.
25%: Exam 1 (in-class exam).
25%: Exam 2 (in-class exam).
30%: Final project, including project proposal (10%) and final report (20%).

Late policies:

Late policy: everyone will get three late days to use for homework assignments. After all three late days have been exhausted, no more late submissions will be accepted.
For unforeseen health and personal emergencies, please contact the instructors at cmsc723instructors@gmail.com. Job interviews / other schoolwork are not excuses for late homework.

AI policies:

Homeworks: Using AI assistance to complete your homeworks is allowed.
Exams: Using AI assistance for the in-class exams is not allowed.
Final project: Using AI assistance for the final project (proposal and report) is partially allowed: you can use AI for anything (e.g., implementing and running experiments, brainstorming, making figures, getting feedback on your drafts, etc) except for the actual writing of the proposal and report documents, which must be done entirely by the humans in your group. More specifically, there can't be any AI-generated or AI-edited text in these documents, and any AI feedback must be used only to guide your own writing and editing cycles. This policy will be enforced via Pangram: your reports must be classified as "human-written" before we will grade them. More details will be provided in the instructions for each of these two deliverables.

Collaboration policies (with humans):

Other than the aforementioned AI assistance, all of the content you submit, both code and text, needs to be produced on your own. For group projects, work must be produced only by members of the group.
Do not share code or written materials with other students. Do not look at others' code. For homeworks, you may discuss problems and the project with others, and we encourage it, to help understand the material. This is obviously not true for the exams!!!
If you find, use, or build off of published material, for example on the web or from a textbook, you must cite the source.

We follow the university’s Code of Academic Integrity. If you have questions about a particular situation, please ask.