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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Optimizing Task Distribution and Shared-Variable Accesses in an Asynchronous-Partitioned-Global-Address-Space Programming Model
DownloadSpring 2015
High-performance programming systems employ a wide range of techniques to improve the performance of parallel and distributed applications on large scale machines. This dissertation identifies a novel opportunity of load balancing, proposes a new approach for workload distribution, and presents a...
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Spring 2022
Panel-based prefabricated retrofits of existing building envelopes are considered a promising strategy for improving energy performance and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These projects typically require some form of 3D model of the as-is building geometry, in order to construct the panels...
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Spring 2011
One of the main criticisms of previously studied label noise models in the PAC-learning framework is the inability of such models to represent the noise in real world data. In this thesis, we study this problem by introducing a framework for modeling label noise and suggesting four new label...