Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 74Machine Learning
- 70Reinforcement Learning
- 41Artificial Intelligence
- 36Machine learning
- 22Natural Language Processing
- 22Reinforcement learning
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Spring 2024
The ability to learn good representations of states is essential for solving large reinforcement learning problems, where exploration, generalization, and transfer are particularly challenging. The Laplacian representation is a promising approach to address these problems by inducing intrinsic...
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Fall 2016
In order to understand the complex biological functions of proteins, highly detailed, atomic resolution protein structures are needed. Experimental methods such as X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy provide standard platforms for determining the atomic-resolution structures of proteins....
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Fall 2018
Software libraries provide a set of reusable functionality, which helps developers write code in a systematic and timely manner. However, with the plethora of similar software libraries available in the market, selecting the appropriate one to use is often not a trivial task. Choosing libraries...