MLP Project Orientation | T3 25

This orientation session for the MLP project (T3 25) provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the project requirements, registration process, and evaluation criteria. The instructors explain that the project is hosted on Kaggle, where students must join a competition titled ‘Cinema Audience Forecasting Challenge’. They detail the steps: registering for the competition, creating a notebook with a specific naming convention (rollnumber-notebook-t32025), sharing it with a designated account, and making submissions. The evaluation involves crossing a cutoff score on the leaderboard, completing at least two of five milestones, and passing two viva levels (L1 and L2). L1 checks for minimum requirements like EDA, handling missing values, and trying at least three models, while L2 involves industry experts questioning on the project and ML concepts. Marks are allocated: 35 for model performance, 10 for notebook quality, 5 for milestones, and 50 for the viva, with a passing threshold of 50 overall and 25 in the viva. The session also covers rules such as no external data, no accelerators (GPU), keeping notebooks private, and a daily submission limit of five. The instructors emphasize the importance of following naming and sharing rules to ensure registration and avoid plagiarism flags.