Information of Assignments for 2026 Fall UVa CS 4774 Machine Learning

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Five assignments (50%)

• Post in Canvas
• Coding-centered homework: each assignment functions like a mini course project, and most will have a leaderboard to rank student submissions; extra credit will be given to top-ranked submissions.

• You will receive grading of each HWs within 10 day of each due time. A release email will send to you about the grading. (If you don’t receive such emails in time, please do email to
  TBD.

• Please submit all extension requests, questions, and late assignments to
  TBD.

About Midterm Exam (15%)

• Date: Oct 8
• Coverage: TBD
• Format: TBD

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About Final Exam (20%)

• Date: Dec 8
• Details to come
• Closed book

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About in-class Quizzess (15%)

• Quizz dates will show on the schedule page
• Mostly quizzes will be on Thursdays
• Each quizz includes contents we cover in the previous two reading sessions.
• Note: Q0 (week 1) is an ungraded screening PreQuiz and does not count toward the grade.

Quiz Resources: TBD

INDEX	Quiz
Q1	TBD
Q2	TBD
Q3	TBD
Q4	TBD
Q5	TBD
Q6	TBD
Q7	TBD
Q8	TBD
Q9	TBD
Q10	TBD
Q11	TBD
Q12	TBD

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About Extra credits

• We have extra credits questions in Quiz and in HWs
• They intend to increase your chance of getting the full credits for that specific assignment / Quiz.
• Each HW / Quiz are upper bounded by its designed percentage in the total final grade.