Bolei Zhou
Department of Computer Science
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Helpfulness 2.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Quarter: Winter 2025
Grade: B+
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March 28, 2025

The assignments are interesting, sometimes time consuming, in particular the last assignment and course project. The material is also very interesting, and quite a bit of it is SOTA toward the end. The lectures are OK, the professor mainly reads from slides, but he is clearly passionate about the topic.

That said, the exams are either intentionally designed for you to fail and generate a curve, or designed and evaluated in the laziest manner possible. If you do not EXACTLY match what their predefined rubric states, you will receive a zero. This includes rederiving formulas which were derived in class (on an open-note exam!) and matching exact keywords in short answer problems. On top of this, the course staff chose deliberately to hide the correct solutions and rubrics on Gradescope to discourage requesting regrades on solutions which appeared to be fully correct. The final grade is also not curved whatsoever (had 89% raw score, received a B+, scored over 100% on all assignments/project). So your entire grade comes down to this sketchy exam where despite knowing 80-90% of the material, you can easily receive a 60% or lower.

If you value your GPA, audit this class. Material is interesting, projects are great, but dealing with this nonsense final is not worth the risk.

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Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
June 22, 2024

Interesting material, but the lectures were pretty confusing to understand. The homeworks take a while to do just because of the training time, and I didn't they were particularly helpful for understanding the material. I thought the final exam was pretty fair. The last project is like a class-wide competition to see who can train the best model

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Quarter: Winter 2025
Grade: B+
March 28, 2025

The assignments are interesting, sometimes time consuming, in particular the last assignment and course project. The material is also very interesting, and quite a bit of it is SOTA toward the end. The lectures are OK, the professor mainly reads from slides, but he is clearly passionate about the topic.

That said, the exams are either intentionally designed for you to fail and generate a curve, or designed and evaluated in the laziest manner possible. If you do not EXACTLY match what their predefined rubric states, you will receive a zero. This includes rederiving formulas which were derived in class (on an open-note exam!) and matching exact keywords in short answer problems. On top of this, the course staff chose deliberately to hide the correct solutions and rubrics on Gradescope to discourage requesting regrades on solutions which appeared to be fully correct. The final grade is also not curved whatsoever (had 89% raw score, received a B+, scored over 100% on all assignments/project). So your entire grade comes down to this sketchy exam where despite knowing 80-90% of the material, you can easily receive a 60% or lower.

If you value your GPA, audit this class. Material is interesting, projects are great, but dealing with this nonsense final is not worth the risk.

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Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
June 22, 2024

Interesting material, but the lectures were pretty confusing to understand. The homeworks take a while to do just because of the training time, and I didn't they were particularly helpful for understanding the material. I thought the final exam was pretty fair. The last project is like a class-wide competition to see who can train the best model

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Easiness 2.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.5 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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