Week 12
Capstone Handoff
Month 3 focuses on polish - reproducibility, advisor feedback, code release, and presentation readiness - while locking the core thesis for Review 2.
Place in the arc
Month 3 focuses on polish - reproducibility, advisor feedback, code release, and presentation readiness - while locking the core thesis for Review 2.
Objectives
These objectives define what success looked like for Week 12. Meeting them either unlocked the next experiment, closed a risk, or produced evidence for the thesis claim that diffusion expansion is domain-dependent.
- [ ] Final presentation delivery
- [ ] Code public release
- [ ] Complete project documentation
- [ ] Project handoff and closure
What we built and measured
Below is the detailed record for the week - methods, implementation notes, and experimental setup - expanded from the team log so a reader can follow the technical path without the repository open.
1. Final Presentation Delivered
Presentation details:
- Duration: 14:52 (within 15-minute limit)
- Q&A: 8 minutes of discussion
- Audience: Capstone committee + peers
Questions received:
- "How does QUID compare to fine-tuned retrievers?" → Discussed complementary nature
- "What about multilingual?" → Acknowledged as future work
- "Can you combine QUID and HyDE?" → Yes, interesting direction
Feedback: Positive reception. Committee appreciated clear framing of domain-dependent effectiveness.
2. Code Publicly Released
Repository live with:
- Full source code
- Reproduction scripts
- Documentation
- Example notebooks
- Pre-computed embeddings (optional download)
Early usage:
- 3 GitHub stars in first 24 hours
- 1 issue opened (documentation clarification, resolved)
3. Project Documentation Complete
Final deliverables:
- [x] Research paper (9 pages + appendix)
- [x] Code repository (public)
- [x] Presentation slides (18 slides)
- [x] Weekly reports (12 weeks)
- [x] Monthly reports (3 months)
- [x] Final report (comprehensive)
4. Project Handoff
Knowledge transfer documentation:
- Architecture decisions and rationale
- Known issues and workarounds
- Potential future directions
- Contact information for questions
Numbers and what they mean
Metrics are only useful with interpretation. Where tables appear, read the deltas as claims about when QUID helps (vocabulary gap) versus when HyDE or vanilla wins (knowledge / claim gap). Agentic weeks emphasize tool-call policies over blind expansion.
1. Final Presentation Delivered
Presentation details:
- Duration: 14:52 (within 15-minute limit)
- Q&A: 8 minutes of discussion
- Audience: Capstone committee + peers
Questions received:
- "How does QUID compare to fine-tuned retrievers?" → Discussed complementary nature
- "What about multilingual?" → Acknowledged as future work
- "Can you combine QUID and HyDE?" → Yes, interesting direction
Feedback: Positive reception. Committee appreciated clear framing of domain-dependent effectiveness.
2. Code Publicly Released
Repository live with:
- Full source code
- Reproduction scripts
- Documentation
- Example notebooks
- Pre-computed embeddings (optional download)
Early usage:
- 3 GitHub stars in first 24 hours
- 1 issue opened (documentation clarification, resolved)
3. Project Documentation Complete
Final deliverables:
- [x] Research paper (9 pages + appendix)
- [x] Code repository (public)
- [x] Presentation slides (18 slides)
- [x] Weekly reports (12 weeks)
- [x] Monthly reports (3 months)
- [x] Final report (comprehensive)
4. Project Handoff
Knowledge transfer documentation:
- Architecture decisions and rationale
- Known issues and workarounds
- Potential future directions
- Contact information for questions
Challenges
No major blockers recorded this week.
Key learnings
See work completed for takeaways.
Plan for next week
Continue per project roadmap.