Project milestone presentation guide

This page covers the presentation-style milestones in the course project. All grading criteria are centralized in project-rubric.md.

1. Project pitch (Weeks 6-7)

Objective

Present one key existing work (paper, repo, or technical blog post) that motivates your project direction.

The pitch should identify a concrete target setting (for example: RAG systems, LLM fine-tuning, or agent tool use) and your intended direction: attack analysis, defense design, or both.

Expectations

• Content: Explain the selected source and why it matters. Clearly state how your project extends, critiques, or builds on it.
• Duration: 7 minutes (including Q&A).

2. Milestone report (Weeks 12-13)

Objective

Show concrete project progress in the execution phase.

Expectations

• Content: Present tangible work, such as:
  • cleaned/constructed data statistics,
  • baseline experiments,
  • implemented attack/defense pipeline,
  • code snippets or demo,
  • or, if your plan changed, a clear pivot analysis.
• Duration: 15 minutes.

3. Poster session (Week 16)

Objective

Present your near-final project outcomes to the class.

Expectations

• Content: Motivation, method, results, and conclusion.
• Format: standard research-style poster.
• Session model: each team presents and also rotates to view others.